"JennyC" wrote in message
"JennyC" wrote
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote

Do you have some pictures of your garden to share with us ??

Unfortunately I don't and to be honest, no-one would want to see
it in
it's current sad state. 6 years of drought and we are now making
decisions about what we are going to save if things keep going the
way
they are. We've decided it must be the trees as we won't be able
to
grow them again to the current height in our lifetime. The roses
will
survive being as tough as old boots, as will my named irises but
anything else will have to just have to take its chances. We are
now
in the process of building a shade house as I suspect that I may
have
to take things out of the garden and put them in pots. I'm
watering
the rose bed which has 50-70 roases in it and other plants and I'm
trying to keep a few veg going (corn, tomatoes, rhubarb, cucumber,
zucchini, chard, pak choi and a few salad greens and herbs) but
beyond
that..........

Bloody depressing.

How hot is it ??

Yesterday it was 39 degrees C and this is just the start of summer -
much worse to come yet. Today is a glorious 14 degrees C so I'm
taking advantage of that and gardening today.

When did you last have any rain?

15 November - 3 mms - total of 30 mms for the month of Nov, total of 2
and a half mms for the month of October. The worst thing is the hot
dry winds. I don't think the winds have dropsped for more than a
couple of days since spring (October) of 2005..

"JennyC" wrote
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote
How hot is it ??

Yesterday it was 39 degrees C and this is just the start of summer -
much worse to come yet. Today is a glorious 14 degrees C so I'm
taking advantage of that and gardening today.

Phew

When did you last have any rain?

15 November - 3 mms - total of 30 mms for the month of Nov, total of 2
and a half mms for the month of October. The worst thing is the hot
dry winds. I don't think the winds have dropsped for more than a
couple of days since spring (October) of 2005..

Maybe you should start to love cacti................:~)
Jenny

"JennyC" wrote in message
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"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote

Maybe you should start to love cacti................:~)

I do, but Himself doesn't :-(( He likes things like Camellias and
Rhodos.

BTW, if you ever fall on really droughty times, Camellias are very
good in droughts. Don't believe the twaddle about how they need
copious water - so long as they have a strong root system when the
drought strikes, they just keep keeping on. So long as you have the
old fashioned ones then they will survive well in a drought - probably
far better than most Australian natives which survive by dying (after
throwing out copious seed which will sprout when the next lot of good
rain arrives).