After 5 years of
epic drought, California has swung to the other extreme. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 serial of moisture tropical storms has been dumping heavy amounts of pelting (and snowfall inwards the higher elevations) on California, raising the specter of serious flooding inwards many areas.
This video was shot past times Sacramento Bee reporter Sue Morrow flight into Sacramento International Airport on Monday, Jan 9.
It's likewise early on to state what number all this atmospheric precipitation volition receive got on the drought, but the longer the rains locomote out along (another i is buffeting us equally I write this) the brighter the outlook is.
But I create know that the soil inwards our garden is agency beyond the saturation point. Puddles are forming everywhere. It's a practiced matter that I've started to constitute succulents as well as other plants that require sudden drainage on mounds. So far they're sitting hitting as well as relatively dry. All I desire correct instantly is a interruption inwards the rain--how virtually a calendar week of warm as well as sunny days as well as therefore things tin dry out out?
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| Newly planted Helleborus and Heuchera maxima |
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| Newly planted Banksia grandis (dwarf coastal form) on the left as well as Hydrangea quercifolia 'Pee Wee' on the right |
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| Helleborus 'Penny's Pink' |
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| Fan aloe (Kumara plicatilis) |
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| Aeonium 'Cyclops' |
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| Aeonium escobarii and Agave desmettiana 'Joe Hoak' |
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| Agave weberi 'Arizona Star'. I only noticed a dark-brown spot on i leaf. I promise it's non the start of about variety of fungal problem... |
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| Leaves backing upwards inwards the gutter |
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| Aloe ferox flowers looking good |
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| Aloe 'Erik the Red' inwards the foreground |
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This is the foliage of a giant Mediterranean bulb called body of body of water squill (Drimia maritima). It's never flowered for me, but I promise it volition this year. The smallish agave on the left is Agave ‘Grey Ghost’, a gift from a friend. ‘Grey Ghost’ is idea to live a hybrid betwixt Agave salmiana var. ferox as well as Agave asperrima. It was available for a brusque menstruum of fourth dimension through Plant Delights Nursery. |
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| Leucadendron 'Jester' all bent over inwards the wind. It never needed staking but it does now... |
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We receive got a copious crop of Bearss limes (Citrus ×latifolius 'Bearss') this year. These are the regular supermarket limes. If you lot leave of absence them on the tree, they plough yellow, only similar a lemon. When ripe, they autumn off (and, inwards our case, whorl into the gutter). |
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| Agave guadalajarana 'Leon' |
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Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 gift from the wind: mistletoe blown out of the execrable 'Bradford' pear tree that even as well as therefore disgraces our forepart yard |
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There's the 'Bradford' pear on the left. I much prefer to hold off at the Asian lemon bamboo (Bambusa eutuldoides 'Viridividatta'). |
Now fourth dimension for about abstract photos:
And this is what pelting looks similar at nighttime (photos taken amongst flash):
No photographic idiot box camera was harmed inwards the production of these images. They were all taken on an
Olympus Tough TG-4 that's waterproof to l feet. I originally bought it for my trip to
Adak, Alaska inwards September 2015 but I barely used it at that topographic point because it didn't pelting much. I'm glad I'm locomote able to pick out this wonderful photographic idiot box camera out of retirement.
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