Better than baseball-sized hail????

Jeri

That's funny Jeri! I picked a large bouquet of blossoms from Souv de la malmaison, Joseph Schwartz, BR Cant, Mons Tillier and others yesterday and thought these will be the last nice sized blooms until the cool down (and rains) begin in Sept.

I just knew there was a good reason we'd decided not to live in Texas. Thank you for reminding me. Hang in there!

Ingrid

We're having a week of rain from TS Debby and we're hundreds of miles south.
I looked at the national weather map and saw Texas temps (relatives there) and thought wow I don't have it so bad, until a tree fell over last night.....

I didn't even know it was down until the doorbell rang and 2 young men said my neighbor sent them over after they rang his bell for the removal job.
Roses are loving the rain which happens infrequently here.

Denise

Yes, but you're getting a LOT of rain, aren't you? I talked to my niece in the Tampa area, she told me they got 9" of rain yesterday, it just poured all day, along with tornado watches.

She's working from home as her office is just within blocks of the water and streets are flooding.

Take care!

Jeri, thank goodness, we didn't get that hail, but friends of ours did, there was $33,000 damage to their cars, yikes! Dang, if it wasn't the fact that we've lived here for 40 years, I get to whine every year, and our January and February temps are in the 70's much of the time, I wouldn't live here either!!

I saw the videos of that hailstorm, thought about how recently we'd been through Dallas in a motorhome, and shuddered.

Your weather THEN was lovely.

Jeri

Well, forget the roses, they're done until October, and nothing will be blooming except the really tough stuff that loves the heat! Everything else is resting, just trying to survive...

But we'll always have your gorgeous pictures.
Renee

And then there's the 90+ degree temps at midnight later in the summer. Yikes. I hope you don't have those rolling blackouts again this summer.

Do. not. even. say. that. Lol!

I live in mortal fear our air conditioner will break down...

I was just reading an article last week about how spring like our summer has been, lol. Seems like someone just turned on the oven for us though! We won't get as hot as you guys in Dallas since we're closer to the coast (my own house is 10 minutes from the bay), but it's supposed to be about 103 today. Blech. I watered everything yesterday and today so they should be good, I think. Hope your plants do okay!

102.4 here right now and supposed to hit 106. One place in S. A. recorded 111 yesterday. There's a 20% chance of rain, but even if it did rain it would probably evaporate before it hit the ground. I've observed that very thing happening!

I'm piling on the mulch, using both collected oak leaves and shredded tree branches which some tree trimmers dumped close by at my request. It really helps keep the roots cool. Also hand watering when necessary, but trying to use the drip system as much as possible so the roots will develope around the emitters. Also bought three more beach umbrellas to shade some of the roses if we have a repeat of last year.

BTW, I'm old enough to remember what it was like without AC. The south would never have grown in population as it has if it were not for AC, I can tell you that much!

Oh well, lots of years it is very nice in the spring, fall, and winter ... :-)

I keep telling myself that if people up north can survive all that snow and cold.....we can survive the heat. My area got nearly 7" of rain at different times week before last - while areas closeby got nothing. I feel blessed! But now.....104 the other day, going to be triple digits for the next few days. I went thru 2 sets of sopping wet clothes yesterday....and NOT from playing in the water sprinkler! Just hope we dont have another summer like last year - I can take the intermittent high temps - as long as we get a bit of rain here and there.

Rain definitely does make all the difference. Last year we were in exceptional drought in our area with no rain for months on end, and this year we're actually ahead on rainfall. It's nice to have a break in the heat like that.

And I hate the cold. Really. I would rather brave the summer heat than be freezing all the time. Daytime temps in the 40s are just too much for my toes. My best friend in Wisconsin thinks I'm a wimp, and on that score I'd definitely have to agree. lol

My goodness, ogrose - you had your first 100 degree day only yesterday in Texas?? Wow, 550 miles north of you in Nebraska, we had our first 100 degree days in MAY of all things, and we're at least beyond six century mark days so far, including yesterday and today and virtually all next week - nothing below 95. And we'd welcome some of that rain up north of you, as it's our turn for the drought this year sweeping from the Rockies east and burning up the corn, and of course, the roses.

Cynthia