Monday, June 2, 2014

If only raindance works!

In the past years, our dry season is terminated by a heavy downpour in May. In fact some old people have the term "Agua de Mayo" or May Water that is believed to have some therapeutic powers. So they drink a little cupfull of the first rain in May to assuage whatever ailment they are having during the dry season. But that is a thing of the past. In the cities, pollution will not render the first rains to be suited for drinking. But of course only very old traditional folks in the province believe that anyway! 

This year when  "climate change" is already a common new word fashion, it is already June and we haven't had the rainy season yet. There are a few bursts of  ten-minute drizzle in very small areas, but do not quench the thirsty plants. The following photos are all in our garden in the province, and they will speak for themselves. We all hope that we get the much needed rain this early June. If only raindance works, we will all do it every weekend!

 scorched leaf of a palm tree 

 drooping and almost dead leaves of crotons or Codiaum variegatum

i hope this croton will still be able to wait for the rains

Hoya diversifolia climbing a fruit tree, despite the little watering still gets yellowed leaves

 other leaves of Hoya incrassata/crassicaulis showed yellowing with burned patches

 Hoya pubicalyx is also not spared, scorched, yellowed and burned

 birds' nest fern or Asplenium nidus lost all the leaves, hopefully the body and roots can be regained

the leafless extremities at the back of this tree is a full tree that didn't make it through this dry season

This is not our garden but some grasses and bananas near the end of our property also turned brown. Bananas will not recover again, but suckers from other plants will continue. Our fruit trees are also suffering, although i don't have the photos taken. Hopefully, this will not affect our food industry much!

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  1. I truly hope that some rain will fall soon to wet the lands. They sure look like they need it.

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    1. Hi Mersad, thanks for dropping by. The plants dont just need the rain, they are desperately gasping for rain!

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  2. I hope cooling rain falls soon on your parched plants. Grasses and certain others will go dormant but the more tender plants are unfortunate in a drought. Painful to see things like the Birds Nest Fern all scorched and brown.

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  3. Wow, I can't imagine it being so dry! I hope it rains for you soon, so that the plants can all recover.

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  4. That is so disheartening I know. I hope you get some rain soon so you do not lose anything else and that they will recover.

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  5. I've only been through a couple of really bad droughts, and they were horrible. So I understand your frustration (for me, it was almost an aching for rain because it was so unusual for us to go two months without it). This was back in 2012, and I'll never forget it. Yuck. I will pray for a lovely, gentle rain for you.

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  6. Oh gosh - those poor dry plants. Hope you get rain soon.

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  7. Sad about the drought...your pictures bring out the story of plants beautifully...

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  8. summer scorches here too; it's sad to see your garden and others drying out...

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  9. What a shame. A drought is awful, so much damage is done.. I hope you receive some much needed rain soon..

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  10. Hope you get some rain!! Boom, Bobbi, Gary.

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  11. It's very late for the wet to come - wont seem like five minutes before the next is due. Drought is not good, we know all about drought and the problems it can cause so heres hoping you do get some rain soon

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  12. Living things have a way of adapting and I do hope these plants survive.

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  13. I hope you get some rain soon - those plants definitely don't look healthy. Regarding the curvy train path, it's probably because it's climbing a hill and trains need the tracks to be as flat as possible - the elevation of the train is around 7,300 feet above sea level (2,225 meters), and I was higher than that when I took the photo.

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    1. Oh thanks much Al, certainly i didn't notice the elevation in the photo. That is too high up in the mountains. I want to go back to the picture, it is lovely!

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  14. Hi! I hope you will get rain soon. I have no words to say. Thanks for sharing.

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  15. Wow! this is a serious condition, a serious drought. I hope you get rain soon. Climate-change is indeed the buzz word nowadays.

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  16. What you show is what I have been contending with every summer since the 1995 when we had the last lot of sufficient rain. My deciduous trees and shrubs like roses lose their leaves in summer and become dormant and fruit trees tend to flower in autumn after our first rain rather than in spring. We will all have to make major adjustments with the climate change becoming more rapid.

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  17. It is so ironic that we have had too much rain... I hope you get some rain soon Andrea!.... Michelle

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  18. Oh my your poor gardens and landscapes.....it is very dry here too for our usual spring. But the El Nino can do that for us....I hope you get much needed rain soon.

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  19. They all look more than thursty ... thank god, in Germany we don't know this dryness.
    Hope you will get rain soon ...

    My post for Nature Notes:
    http://einwenighiervonunddavon.blogspot.de/2014/06/etwas-gekauftes-etwas-gepflucktes.html

    Frauke

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