Rolling down my garden

  May has been a very moody month. From very high-temperature jumps to storms with very huge temperature falls, May has proven once more to be one of the most unstable months of the year. Although this May has been much warmer than usual, with summer temperatures, the storms brought us almost above-average rainfall. With 97 liters of rain, this was one of the rainier months of this year, and not a single liter was extra. We needed this rain. The last week's weekend rain was actually the first normal rain in months. It started falling slowly and kept falling for 3 days. For the first time, the soil was actually soaked instead of being just surface wet.  When it comes to temperature, we were well above average almost every day of the month. Temperatures have been summer, with a maximum of 32.5°C (90.5°F). Morning temperatures have been around normal... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Ful...

It is now becoming a pattern. A week of good, even hot weather, is interrupted by a storm at the end of the weekend. The same thing happened this week. This time after the summer temperatures and intense heat, the weather change came abruptly. The wind again did a lot of damage. The strong north wind completely tore down my hail defense and damaged some of the plants. Luckily there was no hail, but the rain looked a lot like a monsoon and in just a couple of minutes half of the garden was flooded and the paths turned into small rivers. I can't really do much in the garden right now, it is just too wet... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Full new posts can be read on the new page.

 May is the month when my tulips are the prettiest. The earlier varieties are still blooming, and the later varieties have just started opening, making the two small tulip beds colorful and full of flowers.  This year the tulips started opening earlier. After the March cold, the April warmth woke up all of the bulbs, and all of the tulips exploded at the same time. Both later and earlier varieties started opening almost at the same time, and by the end of April, all of the tulips have opened. They were even faster than the daffodils, which are still starting to form flower heads. The first to open, like last year, was the Blue parrot tulip... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Full new posts can be read on the new page.