In article , joevan
writes
On Wed, 29 May 2013 14:43:53 +0100, Mad Cow
wrote:

I was waiting to see it flower so it had to choose two wet gloomy days!
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But the plants love the wet days.

Flowers are supposed to attract flying insect pollinators, which mostly
hide while rain's actually falling. So a wet day's a really pointless
time to flower!
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Sue ]