Re: Depressing RAIN
- Subject: Re: [SG] Depressing RAIN
- From: L* K*
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:59:32 -0700
----- Original Message -----
From: Louise Niemer <naturverbunden@EMAIL.COM>
To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] Depressing RAIN
> <<<I swore, back in 1999 when we had the water rationing
drought, that I'd
> never complain about too much rain again as long as I lived.
Sometimes, when
> moss starts growing on my north side, it is hard to remember my
oath...but
> when it's pouring on yet again another weekend and I can't do
what I'd
> planned, I try to think about how dry it was a few weeks ago
and how dry it
> can decided to get in another month or so. I'd much rather
have water from
> the sky than haul those *&^%$#@! hoses!
>
> Now, cleaning house instead of gardening is a novel idea...but
I
> think I will pass:-) >>>
>
> Marge - AMEN to all your sentiments! The hoses are indeed a
pain in the
> rear end! Thanks for the attitude adjustment!
California lives by the drought.
By this time of year we always have to water unless we're clever
enough to have exclusively well-established native plants. The
rain stops dead around the end of April -- there will be maybe
two, three instances of rain before the end of October, and then
a couple more before the middle or end of November, at which
point it will hopefully rain a lot until March and peter out over
March and April.
This year we didn't get a whole lot of rain -- Southern
California did, and we got a few good storms, but it all kind of
went away early and so our lush lush spring went away early too.
But I never saw such a year for ceanothus. Blue blue blue from
January to April, it just kept coming. Tree-sized bushes I
hadn't even known were there were blooming their hearts out for
weeks and weeks and weeks all over the county roads.
We're having record heat spells, off and on: the alarming thing
is to have them in May. We're noted for cool summers: the real
heat starts mid-August and goes into early October.
