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Bring me Rain – GBBD

This morning I did my photographs for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in the rain.

Currently it is 6.45 p.m. and the sun has just come out to play

So I quickly snapped this cheery marigold

The rest of the images have water in them!

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… And not in a good way!

It is 10 days or so since we had high winds and since then, we have had grey days and rain.

The garden is sodden,

The plants that should be standing up are collapsed.

And the [...]

That even the slugs have come indoors to shelter from the rain.

Day 2 of my holiday at home …

Yes its raining as predicted.

Although the sun did come out at about 6 o’clock so I was able to dig over a bed for the tulips.

Amazingly I found some carrots -