Hi,
Our Summer this year was different, came late and lasted til the end of September. Today, I picked the last gladioli and have some sweat peas still blooming. All these flowers should have "died"at least a month ago. I just wondered if anyone else has noticed any thing different in their patch to show how climate is changing before our eyes.
Seoghais

Well, this is my first year in Melbourne, so I don´t know yet which weather is normal here - but then again: the weather in Melbourne always goes crazy, so guess anything is normal here
But actually I am from Germany, and there it was the hottest summer ever. It was up to 40 degrees Celsius. (sorry, but I don´t know what that is in Fahrenheit) Usually it gets up to 30 degrees, maybe 32 if we´re lucky.

Here in Ohio (in the midwestern U.S.) the weather has been perplexing since winter. Starting in January came major snowfalls---over 100 inches of the stuff which broke all records. Spring was normal for a day or two but then comes the rain. Every day through September almost! We broke another record on that, too. Usually one can count on a nice dry July and a very fruitful and temperate August but not this year. Several businesses in the town where I live were flooded to the point of going out of business! We're not near any major body of water so no one has flood insurance and we've NEVER had such problems here before. You're lucky you have flowers growing; all the gardens here got either washed away or rotted in the ground before they had a chance to grow due to all the wetness. I can say the temperature hasn't been too extreme bit it's been a very weird year in my neck of the woods, meteorologically speaking!

Hi Gatsby,
I am lucky to have flowers, but my mind boggles at the idea of 100 inches of snow. Floods we're used to , but if they come unexpectedly then it's a shocking event. Mother nature must be trying to tell us something. eh!
Seoghais