7 Feb '08 6:25 pm The drought here is serious now.The local town has restricted water-absolutely no watering gardens,so people are taking water to their gardens from baths and laundry,and whatever they can scrounge.
There is not enough pasture grass for the animals and farmers are feeding them stored hay and silage.
Here are some scenes of summer and some flowers that are managing to survive in my garden
Dixie.
Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
Late summer beauties
9 Feb '08 2:09 am Dear Dixie, your late summer flowers are beautiful. I certainly can commiserate with you over hauling buckets of water to keep them watered. That is how I spent my whole summer last year. It is particularly sad for cattle farmer's and other livestock as well. I know that hay became a scarce commodity here last year causing many cattle farmer's to sell off their herds because they couldn't feed them. I hope your (and our) draught will ease soon.
Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
Sorry to hear of your drought, Dixie.
18 Feb '08 3:26 pm I sure hope you don't lose anything for lack of water. It's one thing to miss out of on a season for lack of water but quite another if the plants can't tough it out until better days arrive. There does seem to be a lot of this going around. Your garden still looks quite a pleasant and uplifting place to be.
Hang in there, Mark
Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
19 Feb '08 7:46 am Ohhh, my friend, I am SOOO sorry!!
But ALL your captures are SOOO beautiful!!! My favorite one being the one with the most shades of blue, that adorable pot, AND the Plumbago!!! Lovely!!
gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
21 Feb '08 5:55 pm Sorry to hear about the drought, Dixie! I haven't been receiving anything from Moosey's for many days now, ever since my computer mysteriously lost all its bookmarks a couple of weeks ago, so I'm very much out-of-touch. I do hope you can keep all your lovely plants going until the rains return.
Here, it feels as if the worst of this very awful winter is over; birds are returning, snowdrops and early primulas are in bloom, and I've begun cleaning up after all the winter storms.
