Gentle rain, the kindest rain of all. Soaking into the soil without damaging the tender seedlings, or even making the flowers sad. We're into our second day of it now, after a record midwinter dry spell, and the garden definitely needs every drop it can get.
More usually, after a long dry spell we get pounding rain that brings damage and much needed relief in equal doses. So it's a special thankyou to Huey for this lovely, gentle, nurturing rain. And to say thanks with pictures, here's a quick lap of our garden, camera in hand.
Still bare, our frangipani is wearing strings of these watery jewels now.
Poppies never cope well with rain, but today they're just
drooping their heads a little. They'll look up when the sun
breaks out.
Rosemary in bloom with vivid green new growth, too.
A week away from full flowering, the scadoxus are already
glowing like beacons, and opening rapidly now there's rain.
Aeonium 'Schwartzkopf' looks like it's trying to resist getting wet.
While in a dark, shady corner this Vriesia
bromeliad is putting on a color party.
The foodies are loving it. Lettuce planted less than a week ago.
Potato babies growing noticeably every day.
Thai limes were fertilised on the weekend, and with this steady
watering they'll be flowering and fruiting through summer.