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Congratulations, Daisy! Many of us are envious of your proper rain!

Wonderful!, Daisy! There’s nothing like the real stuff, is there? The rose pictures are lovely. I bet this gives everything a boost, including you. There’s nothing like a rainy day, in my opinion. I just love a good, rainy day. I’m among the envious ones. Hopefully it will be our turn soon. Enjoy the brief respite from watering! Lisa

We had a rainy spring and early summer, but for the last month, very little, so I can sympathize to some degree. Congratulations on you rain! I'm sick to death of hot, dry, and buggy weather, and hoping ours too will end soon.

Congratulations Daisy, I’m sure there are many happy roses and people in Crete right now ;-). Your sun soaked walls of roses are beautiful

Blessed, blessed, blesssed rain!

You've done a great job with the bank Daisy, I mean, that 'Crepuscule'..!... glad you got some rain...

Congratulations from me too! I know the feeling of relief and joy. We've had rain on and off for the last two weeks and although I can't expect any great burst of flowers this late I know it means more plants will survive. Some late bloomers are perking up. Besides, the slug population is greatly diminished, another cause of satisfaction.

Yay rain! Nothing better than a proper rain

Everything looks fabulous and healthy

Congrats daisyincrete! And great photos! :-)

Love Daisy's garden. Wish we could see more.

Daisy, I am so happy for you! There is nothing quite like that feeling of joy when you can practically hear the earth sigh with relief, and the plants and animals are taking a deep breath of satisfaction, and everything is right with the world again.

Lovely roses!

Yours is a dream garden, Daisy! What a wonderful “endorsement” to get rain!! :-)

Sorry I did not sign my post. I had not finished, but Houzz thought otherwise.

Apart from the two roses, there are mainly plants like succulents, Pelargoniums.

Artemisia Powis Castle, Lobelia laxiflora angustifolia

and a Puya berteroniana yet to flower.

There are some plants I do not expect to survive, like Erysimum Apricot Twist, Oenothera speciosa and Lychnis coronaria, but no matter, I have cutting in other areas.

Oh and here is Crepuscule again, just because.

Daisy

I am so happy for you and for your beautiful garden!

We had an unusually dry summer here in the UK and for once I too was desperately wishing for rain. When it finally came I learned a new word, 'petrichor'. I bet you had a wonderful petrichor when it rained at last on your lovely garden.

I saw the wallflower, and was surprised that it had survived. I recently moved an orange one from a very dry spot, where it had threatened to die for months. It is very grateful. Like you, we have had a very dry time of it. What little rain has fallen, has evaporated instantly.

I love that new word floral. I know petri is Greek for rock, but I didn't know that ichor is the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods! Whatever, it is one of my favourite scents.

I have just been to Lidls, where I bought a few cyclamen to put next to the table that I sit at a lot throughout the winter. The cyclamen keep me company all through the winter and they are joined in spring by the hyacinths behind them.

Daisy

Titian, I don't expect the Erysium Apricot Twist to survive, but I have plenty more in the garden. I can only grow the perennial wallflowers here and have a few different ones.

Daisy

Daisy, I have a number of perennial wallflowers too. They're one of the few perennials I've tried in my present garden, that don't die or take over, and I like the look of them, scrambling under roses.

How is your Lorraine Lee doing? Mine has finally had a bit of a growth spurt, and has three or four blooms. I love their cheery colour.

I've said to Marlorena that her garden should be in a book, and I think yours should be too. It is astonishingly beautiful. Trish

I think I have to agree with Hydrangeahead. Daisy, your garden is so beautiful, it just can’t be real:). You have a real talent for garden design. Incredible! Lisa

It is splendid indeed, Daisy. I also love the fact that, though in theory I always think "I don't like oranges and yellows and reds", I then look at your garden and have to change my mind. You manage to harmonize these colours somehow, in such a way that it just looks LUSCIOUS!

Stunning garden. Hope you continue to get enough rain!

Bart , that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking about Daisy’s orange, yellow and reds. She makes me wish I had a separate area where I could try it without clashing with my usual scheme. Lisa

Good thing Daisy is so charming or we could all die of jealousy.

So true Sheila. When I compare my dismal plot with her paradise garden it's rather disheartening, but on the other hand it inspires me to search out and plant varieties of perennials that hopefully the bunnies won't eat to fill up all those empty spaces.

I'm glad you have rain, Daisy. Seeing your pictures makes me want to go swimming in a salt water place, preferably in winter; but now is fine, too, either sea or ocean.

Krista, I go swimming often in the Mediterranean during the summer. I used to swim in the sea during the winter, in England when I was young, but nowadays, it has to be hot weather for me to swim.

I didn't like to plant bright reds, oranges and yellows when I lived in Surrey in England. The colours always looked too harsh, because being so far north of the equator, the light was blue. When I moved to Cornwall in England, although it was only a little further south, the light was a lot less blue. Cornwall is a promontory out into the Atlantic ocean. As it has sea around it, the light is wonderful. I still did not plant bright colours in the back garden, but I tried them in the front garden.

My old front garden in Cornwall.

Daisy

Rain--hurray!

Then there is dumb me--just realized I left the sprinkler on all night. Have no idea how the plants will respond.

Love your flowers, Daisy.

Kate

How beautiful, Daisy, thanks for posting pics of your garden in England. Were you able to garden until 9:30 PM in June? I can be in the garden until well after 8:30, and you are further north...

The plants in your English garden look like they can tolerate wind. I can almost smell the salt breeze...

It's been many years since I've had the opportunity to swim in salt water. I've been in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and briefly in the Mediterranean at Cote d'Azur.

Florida or Hawaii are appealing places for swimming in winter...

I enjoy swimming in the lakes in upstate NY in summer, but don't swim as often as I would like. The water is bracing, but the lakes are so inviting.

What I like about swimming in lakes or sea/ocean is that it's both exhilarating and relaxing at the same time.

All fantastic (as usual) Daisy. A truly shocking east Anglian drought rendered this summer hopeless for me (although the tough roses didn't falter, if somewhat lacking in blooms)...but have re-evaluated my entire garden philosophy to full-on xeric (so yep, sedums and succulents seeding now). Love that lobelia laxiflora. Very much a fan of reds and oranges myself - growing a rather lovely calceolaria and salvia coccinea) in my surviving containers...and the lovely ipomopsis rubra. Anyway - growing many dianthus, verbascums, flax, centaury, knapweeds. penstemon and sage seedlings this year. Finally freeing myself of picky hybrids and venturing down the wildflower route.

Oh yeah, another new word to add to petrichor - psithurism, the sound of wind rustling through leaves and grasses.