Tree fern....

Unfurling nicely,Angela..a lovely plant :o)

Thanks I love them, have got 4 now all different sizes, they are a picture at this time of the year..

You've unwrapped them at last? :))

I love 'em too, but too much hassle for me. Easier just to move stuff in and out. I am thinking about a covered area (winter only) for succulents, but a short DA would hide them and a tall one would stop me covering the area.

It looks good...it must love all the rain you've been receiving.

Looking OK, I have a place I could put one of those, but getting a 'bit old for it now' I suppose.

Yes K all unwrapped, but, ready with the fleece just in case...Delonix they have loved the wet, which saves me the job of watering them daily!! Never too old Dorjac just buy a big one.

Dottydaisy2:

Please, please send me some of your rain! :>)

We're having such a horrible heat wave with record highs temps and it's extremely dry. I have to water twice a day with the almost 100ºF (39ºC) weather and hot nights.

Gosh Delonix I should'nt like that at all! 29 degrees centigrade for days on end made me really ill for a short time last summer. A friend needed hospital treatment for severe dehydration. We had a long dry time recently but some little rain today. The lady blackbird is now lining its nest with mud and grass clippings and her partner is singing in a tree...ah well. DD I can't handle heavy things anymore as I have a collection of trigger fingers and ganglions that come and go. I got a some pea gravel in a supermarket bag yesterday at the small GC, as I cannot handle and grip heavy items. A baby tree fern would be my target buy.

Dorjac:

The last couple of summers have been very hot and humid. So many people ended up in emergency rooms during the last two summers with heat-related illnesses and especially in August/September of 2012 when it was unbearable hot (95 - 105ºF [35-40.6ºC]0 for days on end with very high humidity.

I would be dead by now, I do like the sun, but not those kind of temps....

Yes, I agree...I don't like the high temps. It feels much cooler today and for then next couple of days then back to very hot weather next week. YUCK!!!

Sorry, we have heavy rain forecast tomorrow, high winds today and a little nippy, never two days the same....

Steady drizzle today and a lot cooler, but our friend has nipped by and cut the 'lawn' and strimmed off spent aubretias. We do get very dry in Essex, so a good old soaking with steady drizzle is much appreciated as long as nothing scheduled as a garden event.

Dottydaisy2:

The weather there and here is so very different. We're expecting temps to 105ºF (41ºC) this coming week for inland San Diego. This is much too hot for this time of year. These temps are more common in summer and fall.

40 degrees cent......Phew, and out of season too. There is a lot of argument over here about climate change, all mixed up with politics. Our weather has always been changeable with a maritime climate Delonix. 2013 winter was the severest for 50 odd years and 2014 winter the mildest with very few frosts. US weather events can be very dramatic for your population, and sometimes reach out and smash into us with high winds and heavy rains. Our coasts took a terrible battering. Terrible floods weeks and weeks before the water drained off.

At the moment we have very high winds and driving rain.....the poor garden is taking a severe battering....who would be a gardener?

Dorjac; Dottydaisy2:

The weather has been so crazy the last couple of years!

I think I would love the rain and wind at this point. At least it would help relieve the severe drought here. Also, it would water my drought-stricken plants. I've noticed several of my plants burned in the last heat wave and some have died from the severe drought and heat from this past winter. This was one of the hottest and driest winters on record here in Southern California.

Today will be a nice cool 95ºF (35ºC)...then the rest of the week temps are predicted to soar to around 107ºF (42ºC) in the inland areas of San Diego. Most likely then we'll be under heat advisories or excessive heat warnings (from the National Weather Service) depending on how hot the nights remain.

I cannot imagine temperatures like that, your poor garden, I do not which is worse to be truthful, we have gone back to March weather....windy and heavy rain and sunny all at the same time lol

Wow! That's amazing to have such winter weather at this time of year.

I do have a lot of heat-loving plants; however, many of my other plants which don't like such hot and dry conditions are sufferings. It's already 85ºF (29ºC) at 8:30 a.m. this morning. All of San Diego County and much of California is under heat advisories through Friday for the very hot weather. Typically, I can go to the coast and it's cooler than where I live; however, even at the coast it's expected to be at 95 - 98ºF (35 - 37ºC), which is very unusual for this time of year. These hot temps usually only happen at the coast in late summer and fall.