Enjoying the rain

Being driven along country lanes today I saw the clear results of five months of drought. The hedge rows are thickly laden with berries, the fruit trees covered but the leaves are turning brown and the chestnuts look dead.
This isn’t caused by autumn, it’s stress, where living things in danger reproduce like mad.
Unless we get long weeks of heavy rain our trees and hedges will die.
Don’t anyone moan about the rain unless you want to live in a desert.

Hoping for even more rain in Yorkshire to help the exhausted firefighters battling the terrible moorlands wildfires.

Thank you GNs. Your rain dances worked. We’ve finally had some rain. A long way to go yet but it’s a start

It's like a watched pot never boils with the rainclouds here - if I keep looking to see if it's raining it doesn't even though the clouds are stormy.
Today I was preoccupied with other things & the sky has finally managed to let us have some water.
I think the lawn will recover, but some of the open spaces near us will have to be re-seeded (by who?) The grass has burnt off & we all keep walking on it & it looks like even the roots have eroded.

I heard someone from Kew Gardens say they had lost over 400 trees to heat stress last year and it may be worse this year. My garden is covered in fallen leaves. It looks like late September but the leaves have been falling since the beginning of July. I don't think my lovely Mahonia will recover, but the tomatoes have done well. We may have some rain overnight (fingers crossed)

We’ve had a deluge in the midlands. Just hope it put the fires out on the North Yorkshire moors.
The smell of wet earth is fabulous!

Yes! It rained yesterday and when I woke this morning at 5.30 it was raining again. I’ve opened the window so I can hear the pitter patter. Looking forward to my dog walk in my waterproof.

The smell of wet earth after a dry spell is called petrichor ❤️

B…. All in the way of rain here in south Glos, one three minute downpour and that’s it!
I’m still watering my pots every day 🤬

Heavy rain for at least the last couple of hours, hooray no watering tonight, but it has shown up a problem with the gutters, so only a partial win!

We've only had light rain with a few downpours so the lawn still looks extremely sad. I can't even get a fork in the borders to do a bit of weeding. The ground is solid.

What a lovely word LaCrepescule Diolch