Well, it's not rained since yesterday afternoon, but I have a feeling it might start tipping it down this evening. And probably all weekend. It's because I suggested to my brother (who's staying with us this weekend, along with his fiancée, her brother and his girlfriend) that we have a barbecue on Sunday. There. Jinxed it. Now you're all going to have rain too because I mentioned the B-word.
The Gunnera manicata is loving this. It and the horsetails are in not-so-well-drained pots underneath the bit where our gutter overflows. So I hardly have to remember to water them as they're sitting in a bog all the time. The ferns look great too. But with the exception of the Dicksonia I have visions of my (greatly anthropomorphised) antipodean plants sitting in our British springtime weather saying to themselves "What the XXXX is this?".
But the Gunnera is almost growing before my eyes! As I said in response to The Inelegant Gardener, it's going wooooooop! It'll soon be the biggest thing in the garden (which, to be fair, is kind of the point of a Gunnera).
How to draw the balance though? I love not having to lug watering can after watering can outside and down the steps (cast iron drainpipes mean no water butts for me), but I also love being able to actually sit out and enjoy my garden! Can I put in a request for rain only between the hours of 11pm and 6am?
The Gunnera manicata is loving this. It and the horsetails are in not-so-well-drained pots underneath the bit where our gutter overflows. So I hardly have to remember to water them as they're sitting in a bog all the time. The ferns look great too. But with the exception of the Dicksonia I have visions of my (greatly anthropomorphised) antipodean plants sitting in our British springtime weather saying to themselves "What the XXXX is this?".
But the Gunnera is almost growing before my eyes! As I said in response to The Inelegant Gardener, it's going wooooooop! It'll soon be the biggest thing in the garden (which, to be fair, is kind of the point of a Gunnera).
How to draw the balance though? I love not having to lug watering can after watering can outside and down the steps (cast iron drainpipes mean no water butts for me), but I also love being able to actually sit out and enjoy my garden! Can I put in a request for rain only between the hours of 11pm and 6am?
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