Re: Mediterranean climate regions rainfall data


-- Lee Poulsen wrote:

> 1. The Perth area and Adelaide area of Australia and the Cape Town
> area of South Africa have much wetter summers than the other
> mediterranean areas. However, so does the region from Marseille,
> France to Rome, Italy. This was a surprise to me. It was also
> interesting to see that Marseille and Rome both have their peak
> maximum rainfall in October (mid-autumn) rather than mid-winter like
> everywhere else, even though their peak minimum rainfall occurs in
> mid-summer (July, or January for the southern hemisphere).
> 
> 5. Based on the rainfall patterns for different parts of New Zealand
> that are easily available, I can't understand why they can grow so
> much mediterranean climate stuff there so easily. Auckland,
> Wellington, and Christchurch are all much wetter year-round than the
> "standard" mediterranean regions.


Dear Lee, 
Very interesting stuff:
1 Indeed we have  this September October peak in the rainfall pattern.
It is very typical for this area and we learn to live with it. The
messsage for us is to plant early before the October rains start. 
January February are generally  quite dry which very often goes on till
the end of March when again we can have some heavy rain.It often happens
that  our bulbs (and gardens) need watering during the March period.
 The interesting part of this  pattern  is that the winterresting bulbs
such as  Hedychium, Cyrthanthus Chlidanthus, Polyanthus, Sprekelia etc
can stay in the ground with out too much danger of rotting due to excess
water in the winter.

 5 
Indeed I also wondered how they manage so well there.  I imagine that
you New Zealand folks shelter the dormant bulbs from summerrains?

Greetings from France where it is actually raining very heavily


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