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Posted by plantzzman UK (My Page) on Sat, Jul 21, 07 at 18:07
Just wondered how everyones annual plants are doing this year as its the year of the floods ! I pitty those who planted dry loving perennial plants for our new global warming hot gardens !
We have many annuals bedded out at work from seed raised items to cutting raised plants such as Surfinia petunias and little is actually thriving. One of the few good plants this summer has been Dianthus for us- Snow Fire being particularly good ! I dont know how we will go on in September ordering cuttings of plants for next summer- how do we judge what people will want after such weather !
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| Yes - very wet - and we've had major building work going on. The Banana has liked it though... 
best regards Chris |
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| Send it over to new england, please! |
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| You'd be most welcome to it, pn! I'm beginning to feel totally desperate as periods of grey murk are interspersed with heavy downpours with occasional drizzle by way of variation. It's the end of July and I haven't even got the shadow of a tan yet. I even had to put the central heating on last week. However, the dahlias appear to be loving it, surprisingly, as I thought they loved sun. My courgettes/pumpkins are in a terminal sulk, having barely grown since they were put in over a month ago, and I'm expecting the tomato blight to arrive any day now. The predominant fragrance in my garden is rotting slug - I've never had to use so many pellets as this year but it has been the only way to get the dahlia shoots more than half an inch above ground. I've put in lots of Nicotiana sylvestris/alata over the past few weeks and they are growing very, very slowly. I'm hoping for an autumn display from them. My alocasias are refusing to do much. Late sown sweetpeas are making reasonable progress. In general, however, the garden is looking wonderful, though I usually get drenched by the drips from the lush foliage which has to be negotiated to get down the paths. On the plus side, the polygonums, primroses and rogersia are looking plump and perky instead of limp and tired as often happens in July! |
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| "Send it over to new england, please!" Please take as much as you can, and then some more! Here's the M50 Motorway 3 days ago . . . normally 6 lanes of heavy traffic . . . Tewkesbury Abbey got flooded — last time that happened was 247 years ago! More pics from the BBC . . .
And more . . .
And more . . . Fortunately for me, it's all at the other end of the country. It's been very wet up here, but no major flood disasters like down south. Resin |
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| My garden is looking much more lush than it normally would be at this time of year. Grass is green, not brown. I have been lucky here in comparison with other places, although there has been plenty of rain. Shasta daisies are looking better than they normally do. I'm not sure if it's the rain or the fact I removed something nearby which might have shaded them slightly. I haven't really gone in for annuals this year save for calendula which is looking very healthy, no mildew yet, and self-sown Mirabilis jalapa. The latter has grown very slowly and hasn't flowered yet. I'm sure it was in flower by this time last year.
Oh, and I completely failed to grow any runner beans due to snail damage. I salvaged one, growing it on it in a pot in the greenhouse, then planted it out last week before going on holiday, figuring it was big enough to survive now. Wrong! I think the weather's very snail-friendly, but I was also growing a cultivar I hadn't tried before, White Lady. I wonder if the leaves were even more attractive to snails than the unnamed red-flowered type I used last time around? |
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| Holy smokes! That canal is a major highway? I havn't been watching tv lately, so hadn't heard a thing about this. Hasn't made the papers here, either, at least not front-pagishly. What's the outlook for farm crops? |
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"Holy smokes! That canal is a major highway?"
Yep! And deep enough to hide the central barrier completely. "What's the outlook for farm crops?"
Bad - 40% of the pea crop destroyed; potato yields are going to be waaay down because of massive blight infection in the wet weather (even where the crops weren't actually underwater). Any crop that was underwater is unlikely to survive. Not heard of any major livestock losses, generally farmers had enough warning to move animals to higher ground. Still rising . . .
Same, next day . . . Resin |
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| Wicked. It's hard to imagine here - punishing blue sky day after day. One of my gardens is unirrigated, just checked on it today. It's perishingly dry, winter squash will be a total loss, potatoes are terrible, storage beets still ok but I don't know how much longer they can take it. The onions cured up well in the heat, should have done the whole garden in onions. |
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| Aye, I'm up north at the moment based in Leeds so we haven't had much / any flooding really. I'm on high grounds. Plants have been doing well maximum rain still but no damage / flooding here. |
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| Seems it's all gone to China now Resin |
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| Wrong way. If the fellow that manages this planet would be more even-handed things could be so much better. Why can't every square foot get fifty inches of precip per year, all at night, every day sunny - well maybe a few cloudy days just to break the monotony. |
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| Maybe this fellow doesn't have square feet? |
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| That must be it! Just not a square guy at all. |
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Well Conscept you can't be anywhere near me. I am in Leeds and In Halton where I am it has flooded terribly. The beck at the bottom of Selby road turn off with York road under the bridge broke it's banks and the houses in 3 roads were completely flooded up to waist height. In fact my friend is only just now having the floorboards taken up to dry out and she has been having to live in the garden in a caravan for the past month or more. Luckily she was insured but it is still very upsetting that all her hard work renovating the house has gone in one fell swoop.
We are still not having a good summer just occasional sunny spells amidst the rain. I have always wanted rain in the night and lovely sunny days but of course it isn't going to happen. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Alisons pond and garden
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