The Blooming Garden

It has been wonderful enjoying summer temperatures in the mid twenties this past week but it is getting cooler now.

Last week I said that I was off to France, but here I am doing another Six on Saturday.

My conservatory plants have spent the summer in the garden but I have a new roof to replace the manky, leaky one and I have painted and cleaned everything so it’s all sparkly clean and now I have brought my plants in and everything looks great.

We are threatened with a super El Niño this coming winter with a polar vortex and probably famine, pestilence and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse but for now the weather continues warm and sunny.

The heatwave hasn’t finished with us here in south-west France yet with temperatures reaching more than 30c. most days and 37c. tomorrow.

This seems to be an endless summer and we are probably all longing for a little cool weather.

This summer I have been worrying about keeping two gardens alive.

There really is a national day for everything.

It’s still hot, still dry, still sere – but week after week of weather whining does not make a fun-to-read blog, so no water rants here today.

This summer we have had endless sun and and drought and it feels as if Europe is on fire.

Our gardens are the colour of straw right now because of the relentless drought so I am bringing you some pink.

We have all been wilting for weeks here in the UK and now our plants are wilting too.

And here we are in July.

I don’t remember ever having a red warning for extreme heat here in Suffolk before.