 | Oh GOD. A solid month of totally gratuitous rain right in the middle of the growing and blooming season. If we had feathers, we'd be pecking them off each other's heads by now, but thankfully we have the internet instead and we can smear some slushy atmospherics across your screen in an effort to dispel the boredom that sounds like DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP. And yes I meant that to be all one sentence, jesus, you're so fucking critical argghhh! |
I suppose it's better than the minus ten thousand you're all currently experiencing in the northern hemisphere.
 ^ Forty days + nights of this.  ^ Hey hey it's wet honeysuckle. | Wet succulent collection.  Wet White Admiral Phlox  | Wet arisaemas.   Wet Aeonium ^ |
 Wet phormium flower spikes and wet dragon weed? You're shitting me. |  |
 ^ Wet Rangiora leaf. |  Wet Shasta daisy. Wet path. Wet daylily. |  |
 ^ Wet Rose du Rescht.
^ Wet Agastache and clematis. One of the few lilies that haven't been munted by botrytis. |  ^ A whole first-half-of-the-season's worth of wet Souvenir de Malmaison DOH.  |
Lost a few stems here and there, but the dahlias haven't been too bad, all things considered. ^
 ^ If there's anything on earth soggier than a wet daylily, I don't want to meet it in a dark alley.  |  ^ Wet vegetable beds. Everything's sticky and lanky and blighted and I'm sure the runner beans will get to wilting and rotting aaaanny day now. |
^ The Printanor garlic made it through but it's pretty runty. Right now I would probably trade rain for snow since that would mean we didn't have to go up to the garden in a week's time, rip every sludgy thing out and throw it on a steaming compost heap that's already applied for its own postcode.
That's actually not true, but you get the idea.
* MORE PHOTO DU JOUR *
That's actually not true, but you get the idea.
* MORE PHOTO DU JOUR *
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