Be careful what you wish for, I was longing for some rain to wash us clean, sweep away the dust and give the garden a good water. Instead we had a couple of days with terrific electrical storms, high winds and hailstones the size of grapes. The latter gave everything a good bashing, took the leaves and flowers off my plants, brought down a lot of olives and filled the pool with debris. There has been a lot of sweeping up and cutting back. It’s disappointing that plants I’d been nurturing and were just about to flower were cut down but I’m confident they will eventually recover and I’ve collected a lot of the broken pieces to try to root them.
Strangely the storm seems to have cleared away the migraine that and been bothering me for several days, I must be more sensitive than I imagined. It is a bit cooler now but not much and no mosquitoes seem to have been harmed in the storm, pity.
Here are the hailstones that collected on our sunshades before we got them down and a little video of the event.
Ours were that size when we flooded in the Yorkshire Dales a fortnight ago. Rare for here.
ReplyDeleteThose hailstones are impressive. Shame about the mossies.
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