As we draw to the end of what must be the worst year for abnormal
weather I have to ask can 2013 be any worse.
Yes! I know that that The Government, industry, the people with big
money etc. are all plotting to end the world as we know it, or so some
nuts would have us believe.
Still for the rest of us trying to cope with what we have, the annual
task of trying to grow our chosen range of plants we like despite
everything that Mother Nature throws at us keeps on being a never ending
challenge.
The time when we put up our feet with a cup or glass of something
warming and browse the catalogues for the coming year is drawing closer
by the day. We will look at all the pictures and descriptions and wish
we could get results like that, Well just possibly next year we will.
the sun will shine when it should, rain will fall when it's needed and
all will be right with the world.
Next year we will still try to grow our best what ever is chucked at us,
we may moan and groan but that's what we do because we are gardeners.
We may stodge through the mud or haul cans of water but we get plants to
grow and we enjoy them.
So as I sit here listening to the latest hail storm beating against the
window and wondering how I'll ever get my dahlias lifted, I take another
swig from my mug of tea (Yes tea) and hope that the next few weeks will
improve and bring a better end to this year.
Looking around the place yesterday I saw a Bird cherry with flowers,
also Weigela. Senecio Greyii (as was),Honeysuckle, a climbing rose,
fuchsia all in flower, most of my tree dahlias still flowering well with
a lot more to come, despite the lousy weather.
So there is still hope.
So lets just say "To hell with this year" and come on 2013 give it to us.
David @ the wintry end of Swansea bay