Weather

[mark smyth]

Do you grow the tree Dahlia in the ground or a large pot?

[t00lie]

In the ground Mark.
It appears quite hardy here while at rest --the only problem being early frosts at flowering time can see it die off prematurely.
I received the plant ? as a large hollow Bamboo like stem about 60 cm in length .I didn't hold out much hope for it but was informed to bury the stem horizontally just under the soil surface and be patient.The new growth/s appear vertically from the dormant leaf rings.
I have it in other spots in the garden now --Compost makes a difference--while the pics show the plant as some 4/5 metres in height there is a smaller growth under 2 meters elsewhere in poor soil that had a single flower this season.

Cheers Dave . 

[Carol Shaw]

When we got up this morning it was 13? - it is now 12? and raining and we have the promise of strong winds and even heavier rain tonight. I thought I was going to esccape it all by going south  next week but the forecast for Ipswich and London is no better 
David is insisting that after lunch we head off to the potting shed and repot a load of crocus corms - guess I'll need my long johns on 

[mark smyth]

good ole Norn Iron comes up good again! 13.15 and it's ...

[mark smyth]

it's pouring outide now but still quite warm. I'm going out to buy a few miniature Hostas and might be brave enough to keep my shorts on

[fermi de Sousa]

Mark, I hope you kept your shorts on!
We're in mid winter and don't we know it! Not quite as bad as NZ with snow and road closures but cold enough! Only 20mm of rain so far for June (usually one of our wetter months) with a low of -2C yesterday and a top of +9C, so a bit better than Lesley's 0C all day!
cheers
fermi

[mark smyth]

yes shorts stayed on and flip flops. Today is much cooler 14C so it's long trousers for work

[Paddy Tobin]

Mark,

Warm weather in the south also but some frightening thunder storms and dreadful flash flooding. The garden was awash in the latter days of last week, soil washed off beds etc. There is quite a slope in the garden and surface water runs down to it also from fields above. The road outside the front gate had over a foot deep of water on Wednesday last, couldn't get out all day. It's improved since then thankfully.

Paddy

[Andrew]

Another lovely sunrise here,



the colours changed when I zoomed in.



No prizes for guessing what happened later.

[David Nicholson]

Andrew would grey and wet figure in the prizes?

[mark smyth]

wow!

16 here today with some rain.

[fermi de Sousa]

Victoria has had some wild and wooly weather as winter settles in.
Yesterday my workplace in Woodend (at the foot of Mt Macedon) was blacked out and the wind and rain lashed the place most of the day; got home to Redesdale to find a meagre half a mm in the rain gauge and only one and a half this morning. Elsewhere there are floods due to rising rivers (in Gippsland in the East of the State).
cheers(?)
fermi

[David Nicholson]

Good to have you back Maggi. Hope you are feeling more like your old (young!) self and that the computer is feeling well too!

It's chucking it down here for the third July day running (pretty good average that!)

Some June rain day figures for June from Maureen's diary:-

June 2007-21
  "    2006-9
  "    2005-13
  "    2004-14

Nuff said!

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, David, I am on the mend though still having trouble with the eye infection. Weather is veering here between hot and sunny and pouring rain... some areas are really waterlogged... where we walk the dog, not in our garden. Ian is still trying to dry out the potting compost, it is proving a slow task. I was deadheading rhodos yesterday, in the sun, but was getting soaked from the water still held in the foliage oall around me! Ah, the British summer, it's a wonderful thing!

[mark smyth]

Despite high temperatures for most of June we have just had the wettest June in 50 years with 5 inches 12cm of rain. That's twice the average for June