It's raining!

I did not think that I would ever be pleased to see rain. Today I did. The garden was getting very dry and although I have watered the plants there is nothing like steady rain to soak the earth through. I love the smell of the garden after a dry period, you can almost hear the plants soaking up the moisture.

We have had no rain for 21 days which is very unusual for this part of the country. In this area we normally get too much rain, it can be raining here and 10 miles away it is dry and sunny. Rain can get me down especially when it rains constantly for days and days like it did during January and February this year.

My new garden has clay soil which just turns the lawn into a sticky mud bath and then it dries like concrete with cracks going to middle England – oh how I miss the loamy soil I had in my previous garden, that is one thing I would like to have brought with me!