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Wet Garden

July 3, 2013 by Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

Last week it rained and rained and rained. Here are some photos from our sodden garden – quite beautiful in its own wet way, I think!

Prewashed cos lettuce (not in a bag)…

The Pond in Winter…

Every time I take photos of our lemon tree, I think of my friend Charlie at Hotly Spiced. She thought it was hilarious that I kept posting a photo of the same solitary lemon in every garden post for months. I didn’t have a choice – at the time, it was the only one on the tree!

Our bed of leeks…

The rainbow chard is coming up with the most gorgeously coloured stems…

All the rain has done wonders for our recently planted bed of leafy greens…

Some wet and bedraggled visitors sought shelter on our deck…

At one point we had nearly a whole flock of rainbow lorikeets…

Nic’s sedum burrito is hanging safely undercover, as it doesn’t like to get wet…

And we rushed to harvest the tromboncinos we’ve been saving for seed, before the rain caused them to split. They’ve turned into giant pumpkins!

It sounds like it’s been raining all around the world! How are things going in your garden?

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  1. on July 3, 2013 at 12:07 am Platanos, Mangoes and Me!

    Its raining in New York City too…but my little garden is growing in my apartment. I have parsley, sage, rosemary, time and basil..I still have to go out and buy my herbs. Those birds are beautiful…we have two falcons and its baby nesting atop our 30 story building and when I sit at my computer I see them flying up as I live on the 27th floor. Its a beautiful sight.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:01 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Norma, I’m always so excited to hear about your falcons! It must be so exciting to see them flying past your window, especially in NYC!!


  2. on July 3, 2013 at 12:16 am Dot Schaal

    Envy your lemon tree…looks so healthy….have been battling to grow mine for years, with no reward to date! Enjoy those beautiful healthy fruits!


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:01 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Thanks Dot! We have problems with almost every other fruit tree, but the lemon seems to be thriving!


  3. on July 3, 2013 at 12:17 am thecompletecookbook

    We too have a wet garden Celia. Amazing how similar how weather is. Seems we have the hot and cold spells and rain at the same time.
    :-) Mandy xo


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:02 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Same hemisphere I guess, Mandy, although it does surprise me how similar it is given that we’re on opposite parts of the globe! :)


  4. on July 3, 2013 at 12:19 am Chica Andaluza

    It hasn’t really been a proper summer yet here in Southern Spain either, very weird! Your garden looks amazing and I’m stunned by those beautiful lorikeets.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:02 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      I hope the sun comes out for you soon, Chica! It was warm and sunny here yesterday – mid-winter – just bizarre!


  5. on July 3, 2013 at 12:28 am Lisa the Gourmet Wog

    The rain is finally over! Oh gosh it’s so exciting, as lovely as the pics are, and the wonders it was doing for our gardens, I was starting to go a bit nutters from cabin fever!


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:03 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Lisa, it has been a bit like that, hasn’t it? :)


  6. on July 3, 2013 at 12:49 am Maureen | Orgasmic Chef

    It’s not supposed to rain tomorrow – finally! I love the birds. We get a few parrots here but not many. I did have a flock of pelicans out back the other day but when we had no fish they went to find better luck elsewhere. :)


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:03 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      M, a flock of pelicans! That’s huge – they must have filled up your whole backyard!


  7. on July 3, 2013 at 12:55 am Peter Bryenton

    I think the word verdant applies.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:04 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      It certainly is green, Peter.. :)


  8. on July 3, 2013 at 12:58 am @ChristineSalins (FoodWineTravel)

    Those tromboncinos are amazing Celia!


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:04 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Chris, they’re enormous! So big we can’t weigh them! We have to get the seeds out of them soon, but at the moment, they’re just sitting on the deck. :)


  9. on July 3, 2013 at 1:57 am niasunset

    Beautiful photographs… Thank you dear Celia, love, nia


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:04 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Thank you Nia! xx


  10. on July 3, 2013 at 5:46 am heidiannie

    Your winter garden looks more alive than my summer garden area. I went out to take some pictures and am chagrined to see how little growth even with all this rain.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:05 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Heidi, it’s taken several years for the soil to improve, but we are getting some nice produce now. The rain has washed away a lot of nutrients though – the garden will need feeding soon…


  11. on July 3, 2013 at 5:50 am Lizzy (Good Things)

    So much rain, Celia, I am glad to hear it has stopped… love a good downpour, but when railway station walls start to collapse, it’s time the sun came out. Beautiful shots of your garden, as always, everything looks so healthy and happy. And how about those Lorikeet visitors! Such beautiful colours. Love birdlife in the garden. Makes me feel alive!


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:06 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Lizzy, it really did rain and rain, didn’t it? I’m glad it’s stopped too, but it was quite nice sitting on the deck watching it come down as well.. xx


  12. on July 3, 2013 at 6:18 am Fairy

    Beautiful photos! We have had rain for the past week, too. the garden is well-soaked so everything is looking for a bit of sunshine. Fingers crossed for the next few days.

    Our rainbow lorikeets seem to disappear in the wet but I often see bedraggled kookaburras.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:06 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Fairy, I reckon wet kookaburras would just look cranky.. ;-)


  13. on July 3, 2013 at 6:27 am andreamynard

    I do love the lushness of a garden after heavy rain too. Those tromboncini are fabulous and I have to say, if I had one lemon growing in my garden I would happily show pictures of it every day!


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:06 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Andrea, you are very sweet, I was a bit tragic about my one lemon, which is why Charlie was teasing me.. ;-)


  14. on July 3, 2013 at 7:03 am Roz MacAllan

    love the raindrops – they enhance the veg and give them a free clean wash


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:07 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Roz, yes, everything is very clean at the moment!


  15. on July 3, 2013 at 7:44 am lambsearsandhoney

    Oh, I am a bit jealous – it may have been raining all over the world, but it seems to have missed us. We’ve had very little so far this season and nothing for the last 2 weeks. Not good for a traditionally wet area at this time of year.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:07 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      How can it not be raining in Adelaide? I thought it was raining everywhere. I wish we could send you some of ours, A!


  16. on July 3, 2013 at 7:45 am Allotment adventures with Jean

    Beautiful photos Celia. I’m off to my allotment this morning and I think it will be floating – we have had so much rain this week.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:07 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Jean, I hope it’s all ok – the rain is great, but there can be too much of a good thing!


  17. on July 3, 2013 at 8:42 am Claire @ Claire K Creations

    Yay that you have more lemons to photograph now. It has been pretty wet here recently too but today is nice and sunny.
    Just yesterday I planted my avocado tree which I am very excited about! In 2 years it should have its first fruit. Also planted a passionfruit vine and I have quite a few lemons ready to harvest on the weekend. I’m still thinking about what else to plant.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:08 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Claire, I’m so excited about your lemon tree! I think if you get enough you should make preserved lemons, I can’t wait until I get enough of a glut to do that! :)


  18. on July 3, 2013 at 8:47 am hotlyspiced

    He,he. Love the lemon tree pic and okay, so I see you now have more than one lemon. All in good time. Just think of the possibilities for all those ‘extra’ lemons. That rain last week was driving me mad. I know the garden needs a watering but that was just too much for a Sydney-dweller – we much prefer the sunshine xx


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:09 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Hahaha…yes, we have a few more lemons now, Charlie. Hope you’re enjoying the sunshine…


  19. on July 3, 2013 at 11:22 am Sandy

    Pretty pictures! there really is something wonderful about seeing a garden flourish after lots of rain!


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:09 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Sandy, all the leafy greens have taken off! :)


  20. on July 3, 2013 at 1:15 pm Eha

    Love that first photo of the peashoots dripping with water globules! Your garden does look great in spite of the rain of the past weeks: and unless a few drops descend from the heavens I actually shall have to water tomorrow morning! . . . But, and there always is a but, isn’t there? Love your row of rainbow lorikeets: now I may cuss about living ‘in the bush’ too far away from Sydney for my liking: BUT whenever I look out, especially morn and night, there are the parrots [oh, the King Island ones!] and the lorikeets and the sulphur-crested cockatoos and endless kookaburras demanding food and of course the wretched magpies and endless mynahs! Would you believe the rainy weeks added whole flocks of greedy and inquisitive cranes!!! Luvverly!!!!!


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:10 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      So much wildlife Eha! It sounds wonderful!


  21. on July 3, 2013 at 3:17 pm Nanette

    Raining here too….far northern NSW, so thanks for the tip about the sedum. I’ve just been given one and have it outside…..good to know these things.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:10 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Nanette, my friend Nic had a donkey’s tail sedum, and when it was caught in a downpour, it dropped all its leaves!


  22. on July 3, 2013 at 4:38 pm ChgoJohn

    I’ve been reading about your WInter, Celia. I’m amazed! As wet as it is, though, be thankful you’re not in our climate. Imagine all that rain as snow. You wouldn’t be able to dig out until mid-Summer!
    I don’t think I’ll ever be able to look upon the word, let alone the vegetable, “tromboncino” without smiling and thinking of you and your garden. :)


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:11 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      John, I can’t ever complain about the weather! I know it’s much harsher almost everywhere else in the world. Please tell me you’re thinking about growing tromboncinos.. :)


  23. on July 3, 2013 at 4:52 pm Marilyn Scott-Waters

    Here it is dry..as..a..bone….. no rain in forever. Lots of herbs, lemons and tomatoes. I go out with the hose every day and water. Your squashes are epic! Hugs, Maz.


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:12 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      I wish there was some equitable way to share water around. And thanks for the tip about Jamie’s Ministry of Food – I don’t have that one, so I’ll be on the lookout for it! xx


      • on July 5, 2013 at 4:45 pm marilynscottwaters

        Let me know about Jamie’s 15 minutes meals. I’m looking to get my hands on a copy.


  24. on July 3, 2013 at 7:50 pm GourmetGetaways (@GourmetGetaway)

    Your garden is beautiful! So much is growing and looking healthy. I need some time in the garden to plant a few new things. My snow peas are looking good but my basil is being eaten by something??


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:12 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Julie, I’m amazed you still have basil! I guess in Q it’s far more tropical than here in Sydney!


  25. on July 3, 2013 at 7:57 pm Misky

    Oh my gosh!!!! Looks at those birds! That’s amazing. I’m gob-smacked. Is that a common occurrence?


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:13 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Misky, there is a flock that lives around here. They’re usually in the neighbours yard, but that day they decided to roost on our deck…


      • on July 4, 2013 at 6:34 pm Misky

        Amazing!


  26. on July 3, 2013 at 8:23 pm theintolerantchef

    A bit different to my winter garden, that’s for sure Celia! Our silverbirch tree seeds feed crimson rosellas and eastern rosellas all winter long, they’re the only splash of colour out there this time of year :) xox


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:13 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Becca, it really is so much colder in Canberra, isn’t it? Lovely that you have the rosellas though! :)


  27. on July 3, 2013 at 9:01 pm Jane @ Shady Baker

    Your garden is beautiful in the rain Celia. How about those trombons?


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:14 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Jane, the first one we left for seed wasn’t nearly mature enough, so we let these to go and go. Have to build up our chi and cut them up soon! :)


  28. on July 3, 2013 at 9:44 pm Jan

    Raindrops on gardens really are some of my favourite things but i do know the feeling of “enough already!”. The neck of your pale tromboncino looks like a swan. Do you have to share your vegetables with possums Celia? We get the tips of almost everything nipped neatly in the bud and they seem particularly fond of parsley – even with a good dose of chilli spray!


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:14 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Jan, thankfully no possums here! There certainly has been a lot of rain, hasn’t there?


  29. on July 4, 2013 at 6:36 am EllaDee

    It will be a while until I have to water my balcony plants, they did get a good soaking and I had to move some succulents under cover. Your pics though show our wet world in a whole new light… and there I was thinking it was a bit miserable… how well it makes the gardens grow, even if the Rainbow Lorries are a bit damp, they know the places to go :)


    • on July 4, 2013 at 8:16 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      ED, we’re grateful for the rain, but then again, we have a warm house and can sit on a heated balcony and watch it come down. :) Thankfully it hasn’t done too much damage to the garden – it was heavy rain but not huge winds, which is a relief! :)


      • on July 5, 2013 at 10:57 am EllaDee

        All was not lost, we at least have a covered balcony, and the G.O. got a couple of Saturdays off because it was too wet to work. We ignored the need to grocery shop, and most housework, availed ourselves of the warm aircon and caught up on some movies :)


  30. on July 4, 2013 at 4:30 pm Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella

    Oh my!! Those trombocinos are enormous!! I knew that they were big but that’s totally massive :D


    • on July 4, 2013 at 7:46 pm Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      They’re quite astonishing – we still haven’t built up the nerve to cut them open yet! :)


  31. on July 4, 2013 at 9:40 pm no1ladykay

    For the first time in many summers our garden is dry and warm:-) :-) here in Ireland. Long may it last. Unexpected weather is everywhere it seems. All your produce looks very tasty Celia, and I love your feathered visitors.


    • on July 5, 2013 at 7:40 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      How wonderful for you! It must be lovely to be enjoying a sunny summer for a change! :)


  32. on July 4, 2013 at 9:53 pm Tandy

    We have not had a lot of rain in the number of days it has rained, but a lot of rainfall! Stay dry and warm xxx


    • on July 5, 2013 at 7:41 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Tandy, isn’t the weather unusual! I’m sure you’re getting a lot of winter growth, if you’re getting heavy rain and dry weather as well! :)


  33. on July 5, 2013 at 7:45 am Jo Smith

    Your photography is lovely Celia. The garden always appreciates rain more than just watering. The burrito is growing quickly, it will be ready to eat soon! It’s pretty soggy here too although we managed to miss it as we had a lovely week in Cairns. Glorious up there last week.


    • on July 5, 2013 at 7:49 am Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

      Sounds divine, Jo! Last time I was in Cairns, it rained the entire week! :)


  34. on July 6, 2013 at 7:37 am dianeskitchentable

    Our weather in the Boston area has been so crazy this year that I just de died to rely on the local farms for produce. In May I still had the heat on, then we had sleet that ruined all of the peonies and lilies. Now we are in a hut and muggy heat wave with no relief in sight. I guess I will still take this heat over our bitter cold winter though.


  35. on July 7, 2013 at 5:27 pm Joanna

    I love proper rain, it makes everything green :)


  36. on July 16, 2013 at 6:53 am Promenade Claire

    Loving your wet photos and the wet garden, it looks refreshing and oh so fresh. The lettuce looks stunning, and fingers crossed my Trombocino will come good this year too ……



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