It’s been RAINING here for days. ..2″ Monday, 2 1/2″ yesterday, almost an inch today. Hence everything is wet. Sodden. Mildewing even. The dianthus, who were doing SO well on the front border, have bits that are actually turning black. The cucumbers out back are a complete write off. The mildew we were successfully fighting off with copper spray basically thumbed it’s nose at us this week and completely lunched all eight plants.
Most everything else is pretty happy with the constant deluge. The butterfly ginger has grown a foot. The variegated shell ginger has doubled in width and may yet decide to bloom. And the agapanthus, oh the glorious agapanthus, has sent up a single stalk, which today opened to reveal its beautifully-shaped trumpet-like flowers:
Which just so happened to be nicely decorated with this afternoon’s raindrops. Clever flower.
This is agapanthus “Elaine” aka. Lily of the Nile.
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on May 21st, 2009 at 9:13 am
That is a lovely bloom. How big are the flowers?
I’m sorry about your rain… I had some dahlia and gazania (oh, yes, I finally bought some) buds rot right on the plants.
We haven’t had rain since Sunday, and I hope it holds off a few more days. This might be our last chance to get the garden in.
on May 22nd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
@Caitlin: Right now just a few inches long. When it gets fully open the blooms make a sphere, kind of like an allium, and is about the size of a baseball.
Still. Raining. If it were ten days from now, and the thing were moving faster, it’d qualify as a hurricane.
You’re going to get some of this, no doubt, it’s coming your way as we speak. So get crackin’!