Cordyline fruiticosa ‘Auntie Lou’

What generous friends you have! That's a beautiful colour plant.

Mine also are blooming despite the cool temps and heavy rains. I usually cut them off to get faster leaf production. This year I might leave them on for some added color.

It loves rain water!

I saw the major flooding and record rainfall on the news.
San Francisco had 5.46 inches of rain on New Year’s Eve. The highest rainfall ever recorded since 1849. I had 1.5 inches here. Crazy!

Just seen your pic! I'd posted a message on your previous pic saying, look forward to seeing your cuttings. 😊

It's lively close up, Andy. Gorgeous shiny leaf colour too. Little pink flower shoots in the centre?
Sounds like you've had an unusual amount of rainfall in your state. Weather has been very out of the norm in recent times here too.

Kate,for the first time in years,I had puddles of water. The bottom of the front stairs had inches of water. More Wednesday they say. The combined wind and rains snapped off a Yucca guatemalensis branch- a first ever in over 30 years of it being planted.

Kate,

I’ll be posting more soon.

Yes, lots of rain. We need every drop since California has been in a mega drought for years.

Stan,

The weather experts are saying this “Pineapple Express” is going to worse than the last, especially for Northern California. 1.5 to 4 inches of rain here in Southern California, but 4 to 8 inches in Northern California. Very crazy! But, we need all this rain!

That's an awful lot of of rain, especially in a very short period of time!

It's been years since we've had an inch or two in a day here! I can't remember the last time but it was probably before 2010! We have had a couple of years during the 21 years since we returned from Spain where we have had a dry autumn followed by a dry spring which was also followed by a dry summer but nothing compared to what you have had to go through all these years.

The worst drought in my lifetime was the year the second of my 3 kids was born (1976) but as we were living in Spain at the time we didn't get to experience it. So really I've never lived through a real drought! A few dry months don't count, not even if they add up to 3 seasons in a row!

Balcony,

The amount of Northern California is getting in a day is what we had all last winter season.

We haven’t had much rain in San Diego over the last 5 days, but Northern California has been inundated with over a foot of rain in many places. Watching the little creeks becoming raging river is insane!

Here in San Diego we’re expecting 1/2 inch of rain by Tuesday night. It’s starting around 4:00 am Tuesday.

I think we must have had 1/2 inch of rain here today! It's normally quite dry here, in fact we live in the driest region of the UK! As most of the rain in the UK comes from the west we are protected from it & only dribs & drabs reach us from that direction. However we are open to rain from the other 3 directions. When it comes from the SW, like it has done lately, then we get a fair bit & it also comes a lot further into the interior of our balcony. Today it reached almost up to the balcony door - that's pretty unusual!

Balcony-interesting because in 1976,we had a drought in California also. 76-77 were two years of no real rains.

The storm is dying. We’ll be lucky to get a few hundreds of an inch of rain.

It’s the same here, we get very little rain annually most years around 7 to 8 inches, if we’re lucky. Last year was only a little over 4 inches. That’s what most California deserts receive per year (which are amongst the driest in the world).

I don't know how much the annual rainfall is here but it's not usually very much - compared to the rest of the regions in the UK anyway! Even the relatively little we get here would seem like an ocean to you! 😂😀

Balcony,

I’m sure it would be an ocean compared to the rain here. We typically don’t have any rain from: April - November in most years. We sometimes will get a stray shower during monsoon season which is July - September (typically we just get the very hot and sticky weather from the monsoonal flow).