Let me just start off by saying that I'm not complaining about the weather in the Pacific Northwest! We are very lucky and I'm truly sorry for everyone suffering with high heat and drought right now.
In the wee hours of the morning of July 9, Tacoma was hit with an unpredicted lightening storm which brought with it marble-sized hail which is huge by local standards! Living in an area that seldom gets hail at all, I didn't even think about the garden until I walked outside and saw some of the storms effects on my plants.
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Did any of your gardens get pelted?
Damn hail! We got hit by it back in June, so thick on the ground it looked like snow. Of course we were out of town so I only know this because a neighbor sent me a picture. When we got home the damage was obvious on some of the succulents with pitting and discoloring on their fleshy leaves. Did your succulents escape such a fate?
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen pitting but there were a few holes all the way through some of them. The hail was pretty big.
ReplyDeletedarn the hail!!!!! We were really lucky and dodged the hail bullet but we got crazy wind. It looked like a hurricane came through town. In fact I almost died ... no joke. I was approaching a highway exit when a tree fell onto the road two cars in front of me. Luckily everyone slammed on their breaks in time PHEW! it was kind of crazy though.
ReplyDeleteHow frightening! Glad you're still among the living & able to continue gardening and blogging!
DeleteI don't think we had hail that night, but we might have. I know we've had some spectacular thunder storms lately. There was one just last night in fact. A lot of my too-tall shasta daisies are flopping all over this morning.
ReplyDeletePretty unusual all this rain in July. I am grateful, though because it cuts down on the use of my sophisticated irrigation system (a hose I drag around to all the pots and newly planted areas.)
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