rainymountain's Journal

6.58pm Raining and everything looks sodden; the snow is down to less than a hundred metres above the valley bottom. In the garden, there are still some fresh Autumn crocuses, including in the Bay Garden towards the east end, and lots of bashed down, limp bodies. The pink chrysanthemum is floweri...

8.36pm Watered and fertilized all the indoor plants except the Moth Orchid. The Christmas Cacti are covered with buds. The Calamondin Orange has 14 oranges large enough to have some colour and nearly as many still tiny and green, as well as being covered in flowers which smell delicious. Strepta...

8.45pm Rain, rain, two ‘heavy rain’ warnings in 48 hours, we are told that the snow is retreating to 2000m but we can’t see whether that is so because the mountains are covered with cloud right down to the vallery bottom. The garden drips and gurgles, the Michaelmas daisies begi...

9.10pm It felt much colder again today, perhaps it is the humidity that makes it feel colder. Even with a shirt, sweater, hoody and my old rain jacket, I felt cold and actually wore handyman gloves to do a lot of the jobs. Wrapped jute cloth around the azalea and Mandarin honeysuckle. I used O...

9.05am While I was wrestling with R. Sunrise yesterday (why do I chose roses with huge thorns), I noticed that the bud on the Clematis Mme Julia had opened making two flowers blooming. They are about 6 or 7ft up the trellis which is attached to the the house, namely my part of the house whose in...