Plain jealous here. For weeks and weeks nor rain. Glad your plants live up!!

Harry

I thought Europe got some rain too...I have been doing "rain dance" for a while, haha. Filled some rain barrels and many other containersl Forecast is for rain many days in next 2 weeks - now it should stop. Hope you'll get some soon.

5 drips yesterday. That was all here.

made a qiuck picture. Most of the Semps look this way or even worse.

The middle and left one will live; the other one is dead

Lucky you. Plants really respond to rainwater. It’s been at least six months since we had any rain, maybe more. Do you shake the water out of the rosettes or just let them be?

Harry

Has it been very hot too?

This Operculicarya decaryi should be pruned - but I like it as is! - has sprouted new leaves on most branches after being in rain.

OT: hope there are many hungry birds, toads, spiders around...(One of the reasons I don't get rid of spiders) while taking some of he above photos, I found this bug wondering about - out of focus, it was moving pretty fast:

green stink bug nymph (tried to post link, but it isn't working!)

Yes Rina, for here it was vey hot. My village had 36 Celcius. It's nothing for southern Europe, but for here... pffftt

It was similar here, for number of weeks. We reached 35*C and it stayed over 30*C for days in a row. And most of those days high humidex too. Finally having little more comfortable temps - for now.

Oh, man, you guys are baking, we are suffering in 80F heat, and a weird thing happened last night at 4am, it rained, hard. Nothing changed, but the Lithops got watered, it will be interesting to see what happens.

We finally got some rain here today after about two weeks of above 100F temps. It's been in the high 70s-80F today but it's supposed to be back up to the low-mid 90s this week (still better than it being 105F or hotter).

Rain?? Between May and September it doesn´t rain here - tap water is the only option.

OT again...but speaking of 'visitors in the garden' here is a more desirable one - not a very good photos, but those darn things move so fast, and I am not very good photo-taker (not a photographer, lol): Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (Hemaris thysbe)

It has been raining a lot recently, succulents seem to enjoy it so far:

Sempervivum Oddity (this rosette is approx. 5.25" diameter); many more offsets growing in other pots. Lower right is another Sempervivum.

It sprinkled this morning, and rained over the weekend. I decided to build my lean to and load up my outside plants into it for the winter. I can take the top off as I please its a 5 minute operation, but I can put it on in about 5 minutes for the rest of the winter. It also comes down on sunny winter days.

Hi Rob!! I can't believe that summer is ending already. Will text soon. IT's been too long)

Rina, how does one prevent their clay pots from bcoming white crusted and or stained when using tap water or is it something natural?

This is the reason I like to use rain water but sadly I have to use tap most of my summer since good rains have become scarce around here for the past few years.

Nice looking plants too))

Mike

Mike

I use very few clay pots - they are heavy and always show those stains. And they break easily - I am quite clumsy! I usually try to wash them with vinegar or bleach, but those salt deposits eventually appear again. At least that is my experience.

I use mostly rain water, but same as you - this Spring and begining of Summer were quite dry and I had to use tap water.

What is this thing called RAIN that you all are speaking of?