European Gardening: The big rain, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
We have had similar to Pat, a fair bit of rain, now I really don't remember when it started but we had showers for a few days before with over 1/2" on one day. Sunday I managed to do some gardening, rained all day yesterday but I'm not sure just when it started and when it ended but at midday today my rain gauge had 2.75" in it.

The water was stood on the path as it was coming down in sheaths, before 7.30 last night the drain at the front of the house was loking dangerously high, much higher than I have seen it in 9 years, another 6" and we would have flooded. There is a brick wall near the bridge going over the drain which was completely immersed with water over the edge of that bit of garden, it's never done that before. There is a family business a few yards up the road, they run a boat yard, they have been flooded but are slightly lower than we are.

The water has gone down a little now, but more heavy rain is forecast for the weekend. We tend to get the run-off from other places here even if we haven't had much rain, if we get another heavy lot of rain it could be floods for us. The water level is usually very low, last summer it was dry for most of the summer but in normal summers it dries up for about 2 weeks in early August before we get heavy rains in late August.

The Irises are at the edge of the water where it usually is, there is an old Victorian brick lining at the bottom. I took this at midday today, it had already subsided a little as there was another 1.5 to 2" soaked on the cherry tree trunk.