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ideasguy:
and it covers most of my top lawn  :o
That pond Simon dug is finally filled with water, with no further effort on our part.

It has rained during last night, and heavily all day. For the first time EVER in more than 30 years of mental records, my garden is flooded.
My front garden is OK, but the front of my neighbours garden is under a few inches of water, but the side garden up my driveway had puddles, beside where I planted some new plantsduring the week. Guess they wont need watered in for a day or two!

We had planned to visit the Richardsons Walled Garden tomorrow, at the Greenmount campus:
http://www.cafre.ac.uk/index/information-for/conferences-visitors/richarson-walled-garden.htm

They only open to the public a few times each year. Day 1 (today) was a washout! Hope its dry tomorrow.
Ive been before, and I have to say, its a fantastic place for the plantsman.
Heres another link:
http://www.cafre.ac.uk/gardens-open-at-greenmount-2

NightHawk:
WOW! :o  :o - Sorry to hear you've been hit so badly.  We noticed that the weather forecast for today was very heavy rainfall for Scotland and Northern Ireland today - guess they were right for once.

Strangely though, we've had good weather today - first for a while.  We actually managed to accomplish a lot of work in the rear garden today.  Got the lawn mowed, dead-heading of some plants, a bit of weeding and a general tidy up.

We hope you've not had too much water damage.

The walled garden sounds like a nice place.  Let's hope you have better weather for it tomorrow.

Laurie.

NightHawk:
George, I hope you had better luck with the weather over your way today, because I think I spoke too soon for us over here.

By late evening yesterday, just after we'd got all of our gardening tasks completed for the day, the heavens opened.  Rained, heavily at times, right the way throughout the night and into today.  :(  It didn't really stop until late afternoon, when the sun came out and started to dry up the garden.  Fortunately, we didn't get any flooding.  Phew!

Did you manage to get to the walled garden today?

Laurie.

ideasguy:
Well, its stopped here, mercifully. Glad it didnt affect you too much!
We tried to go to Greenmount today, to see the Walled Garden. We usually take a short cut across country for the first leg of that journey (its on the way to Belfast International Airport) but today we were worried about flooding, so we took an alternative route, on main thoroughfares. But, after travelling 20 miles, we found the road closed at a roundabout outlet, completely! So we doubled back on another road, and hit a part of the road which was heavily flooded. The traffic had to alternate though the pond, taking the high ground in the centre of the road. One car was abandoned at the side, right in the middle of the flood! After another mile, we hit another flood.
Enough was enough. We turned and took a shortcut back to Hillsborough, and had lunch.
Thats the village where visiting dignitaries stay over (Hillsborough Castle) Royalty and politicians.
As you may know, I donated 132 copies of FG to the Ulster in Bloom competition, so I decided to get a few photos of the displays in Hillsborough. The flowers are definitely suffering this year. Hillsborough has won awards for Best kept Village a few times in the past, but even they are struggling this year.

When we arrived home, believe it or not, the sun was beaming, se we had coffee outside and enjoyed it while it lasted! My first plums are ripe, so I put on the gardening clothes and pulled a few. Then I staked a few plants (Sidalcea) - in my raincoat! Yip, it was on yet again!
That all sounds like Rupert Bear telling his mum about his exciting adventures  :)

Weather forecast?
To be good Tue and Wed here. Fingers crossed.

NightHawk:
Sounds more like a synopsis for a disaster movie.  :o

That is what I really call bad luck - seems like everything was conspiring against you for getting there.

This weather is getting so unpredictable that you don't know what's coming from one day to the next.

We seem to be dodging raindrops at the moment - doing bits of gardening when we can when it stops.  Sheesh!  ::)

This weird weather pattern doesn't just seem to be localised to us either.  All parts of the UK (and indeed neighbouring countries) are getting these freak condiitions.  There appears to be some truth in climate change predictions.

Never mind.  We'll just do what we can.

Laurie.

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