My Garden Needs to Know, Is it Global Warming or Cooling?
It is only a few years ago that we were being warned that we were required to think cautiously about what we planted for the future, global warming would demand the planting of drought tolerant plants that don’t mind being sunbaked by the heat of the sun. Gardeners who abided by that advice must be ruing it after the floods of the last year, maybe wishing they had planted for bog garden conditions. If we get a late summer perhaps I will get to enjoy my Californian poppies, we gardeners are inclined to be optimists.
It is not all bad news in the flower garden this summertime; a lot of things are and have provided a good show for me. Something else which hasn’t performed is my peonies and I always look forward to their early summer show.

