An odd day.

Wow. What a gorgeous coloured hibiscus. Love it! Still waiting with baited breath for my stargazer lilies to flower; Any day now...

We were woken at 4.30 am tuesday morning with flash and crash right overhead, it had been a horrible hot muggy airless day with thunder rumbling all evening, then half of tuesday too torrents of rain in the night not stopping till about midday, no need to water then!

Your flowers are looking lovely.......espcially Millie xxx

We still have not had any rain yet.

Thanks digginfit hope yours are out soon :-)

Thanks Pamg, yes been strange weather, we didn't have much rain but thundered for an hour...

Blimey Drc your lucky then, has it been nice where you are?

Surreylad its been in the 30's here and everything is parched, as we have been asked to use water carefully I dont feel I can use the hose. My water butts have been empty for weeks. I am hoping for one of those storms to fill them and my very low pond.

Tuesday was a day when you could watch the lawn grow and green up, its amazing the speed it happened, it had to be mowed today, good rain does more good than any amount of watering doesn't it.
Hope yoy get some soon D as long as it knows when to stop!

Thanks Pam

Interesting plants :o) Esp the thistle. I've never heard of that one before.
Nice to see someone sunbathing lol :o)

not much of rain in my part of the world... but at least it's cooler. Even if I keep saying I loved the heat and that's something I am used to - it was hard to work longer than 3 p.m.
Nice collection of plants. My lilies are still in buds... I think they probably need some food, lol.

Lovely plants Surreylad. You did well to get flowers on a this year's plug of dianthus - hope it was a strongly scented one.

Had a bit of a mixed bag weather wise here the last 2 days. Much needed rain, the whole garden looked as if it really enjoyed a good soak.
Good to see Millie enjoying the sun too. Lovely plants too BTW :)

We had our storms Tues, its been hot again today but we had enough to get my waterbutts replenished and the ponds topped up, green grass again now as well, hopefully you'll get your share as I do agree it doesn't matter how much one waters its just not the same as a good steady downpour, its nice to have some warm evenings as well, our dogs don't like the heat and soon retreat into the shade..
Lovely photo's S'lad, my Hibiscus are not flowering yet, never seen one in that colour before, its a beaut and I've just realised looking at your pics that my stargazer lily hasn't made an appearance this year..BTW hope Millie has had her suncream put on, lol....

Still no rain here and looks as if no hope of any today!

Thanks for all your comments, is does seem quite a mixed bag weather we're all having, we had a inch of rain last night and now blazing hot sun.. Hope you get some rain soon Drc.

We finally had some rain last night, garden looking a lot better now.

Love the colour of your Hibiscus S'lad and I like the Silybum, that's one I'll have to look up. You have some very nice plants.

Thanks Jaykaty, glad you had some rain. If you want some seed of the Silybum it's starting to develop some seed, just let me know.

Thanks S'lad, I'll send you a pm. I looked it up, its an interesting plant and evidently most of it can be eaten! Roots can be boiled, flowerheads like artichokes and leaves in salads, but I think I'd rather just grow it.

Your welcome Jaykay, sent you a P.M. I grow it as its such a lovely thing to look at.. :-)

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Cheers Mouldy :-)