Dry weather.

Pukawa has not had any rain for a month now and although night time dews help a little, many trees are showing signs of stress. The weather is so strange as we have had day time temperatures of 30 degrees but at night it has dropped to 8- 12 degrees.  In the sunny side of our house temperatures have risen to 35degrees day after day, so there has been a huge swing from very hot to quite cool, not the best for the garden. At least my rabbit fence around the vegie garden has beaten the rabbits so it is not all bad.

Read The Signs

We are heading for an early Autumn, autumn crocus are flowering, polyanthus, and the first trees to show autumn coloured leaves are always the Liquid Amber.  I was quite shocked to see those trees in the Turangi car park with so many autumn coloured leaves, this is only February after all but we need to heed the warning, --think of mice!!