It's supposed to get to 41 degrees tonight. In May in southeast Texas where I am about 40 miles north of Houston.
This is crazy weather with the cold/cool in May. 2011 killed all but two bush roses and there are only two sickly looking climbing ones left. The 205-207 temp. every day that summer cooked the leaves on the roses and they died. Many trees in this area died in 2011. That is the worst hot summer I've ever had in this state and I've been here all my life.
Walled gardens were a favorite of Edwardian/Victorian estate gardeners. You have to be aware of sunlight impact/shadows during the day.
I could live with a walled garden here.
It's a moderating influence.
/johnny
Same here in Missouri. Last summer and this spring just about the craziest in my lifetime. We had some trees that died last summer too. But my roses are planted on the north east side of the house, so they are shaded in the afternoon, and they came through just a bit bedraggled, but survived.
Just went out to get my car out of the shop, and heard on the news that the creeks and rivers are flooded and impassable on the back roads. Fire and Rescue has been busy rescuing people who tried to cross low water bridges and got swept away.
I guess that’s why that old saying “Lord willing and the crick don’t rise” is still such a common saying here.
My post 51 - just read it again, ha ha- it was 105-107, not 205-207 but I think that was a Fraudian slip. It felt like the 200s.