With stems and root- systems fully hydrated this should be prime time for a rose bonanza, but the constant patter of the rain on their flower heads is rotting the petals. The saturated rose-quartz flower heads of Compte Du Chambord and Gertrude Jekyll are drooping under the weight of the water, their outer leaves disintegrating on the stem. All it would take is a couple of days of July sunshine and they would be able to recuperate.
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Occasionally today, the clouds have parted for a few minutes, just long enough time to feel the heat of the summer sun that is hiding behind; a tantalising glimpse of what could be.
I wonder what St Swithin has in store for us this Sunday? The met office forcast one of the driest days for six weeks, if popular folk lore is to be believed our forty days of summer are about to begin. Ahh... then all in the garden will be rosie!
