The gingers are out! This is a very short post to let you all know that the blog will be different in the near future. I am leaving WordPress and will be reconstituting the blog on a new platform. I really hope you will want to join me there!
All of this will take a wee while to pull off ….. This Spring has brought new learning about what planetary warming is also about- volatility.
We are not in the Pyrenees, but we are very close and that does bring some special characteristics into play, such as swirling rapidly developing storms and some more rain than we had living in Tostat on the plain of the Adour river. But, this year, has been a strange one since the end of March. Up until then, Spring was coming along nicely, plants were doing roughly what they usually do, and if anything, I was hoping that big heat might not arrive until July.
Big heat and tiger mosquitoes having dominated from early June until October last year- and perhaps the mosquitoes were the worst bit, being someone who blows up like a balloon once bitten, and reliably, always bitten.
This year, we have had weeks of torrential rain and a very grey Spring since early April. On the whole, setting aside the human frustration, this has been good from a plant point of view, particularly for the newer shrubs in the Barn Garden, which have bashed though with aplomb.
