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What a difference to last year! Last year, right on Bloom Day in July, a devastating hail storm hit my garden, mowing off all the blooms and causing lasting damage to many shrubs (if you examine the bark of the shrubs you can still see the scars...)....

It has been a wonderful late spring/early summer here in Zurich, Switzerland (hardiness zone 7b). We had lots of sunshine and warmth, but also some rain showers inbetween, so no drought yet. The temperatures are starting to reach the 30°C mark (86F),...

It feels like an early summer here in Zurich, Switzerland (hardiness zone 7b)! It's sunny, hot, but not too dry yet. The temperatures reach above 25C/77F, but the nights are still cool and nice (no frosts anymore, luckily). The plants generally love it,...

After a very dry March, April started with a cold snap here in Zurich, Switzerland (hardiness zone 7b), bringing much-needed rain, a bit of snow and temperatures as low as -2.5C/27.5F. Luckily the cold lasted only for a short time, afterwards the weather...

It has been very dry here in Zurich, Switzerland (hardiness zone 7b) this last month, worringly dry. We had no significant rainfall since the end of February – just an endless string of sunny days. And what's even more worrisome, there's no rain predicted...

It has been a very mild winter so far here in Zurich, Switzerland (hardiness zone 7b), with lots of sun and dry weather. We still get down to -3C/26.6F at night sometimes, but well above freezing during the day. The minimum temperature this winter was...

Happy 2022! A new garden year awaits with new opportunities and new challenges. Hopefully, this year will be better than the last, without any extreme weather events (like 2021: massive snow fall, late frosts, hailstorms, wet summer...), and maybe finally...

Welcome to the last Bloom Day of 2021! It has not been a good year for my garden in Zurich, Switzerland (zone 7b), if I'm being honest. Record snowfall in January broke many shrubs and trees, followed by a devastating hail storm in July which shredded...

Hello everyone! New blog, who dis? I have been blogging on Wordpress since 10 years, inconsistently and mostly for my own record keeping. Recently, there have been some big changes on Wordpress which made it harder for me to blog. Additionally, I used...

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