The Shambles, Who'll stop the Rain?

 Ipomoea carnea, a tall and imposing shrub

Well. Just when we thought the continual rain, dense fog and perpetual damp through the house would have a little break, another 'low' pressure system hangs over us in the last week of February.
All of our water runoff protection for "The Plough Inn" is successful and the newly planted material of lst week has the best start ever.
However, it's pretty miserable weather for visitors, the dog and just about about anyone else. It's so dark here in Narnia under the clouds.
Out there in the propagation house we hope that all sorts of things are not going to suffer rot. A shaded and therefore not flowering couple of different Iochromas including Iochroma warwscewiczii and Iochroma coccinea have had cuttings taken. Also from Kate Stock we have had cuttings of a pink Dombeya ? Dombeya burgessiae or Dombeya wallichii as well as a potted plant which may be threatened by drowning. From Nicky Booth at Woodford there are a couple of cuttings of a Wormwood, Gardenia radicans and a protrate Grevillea which can't afford to stay wet.
The propagation area is almost full of pots of cuttings roses, Salvias, Abutilons, Abelia, Carissa, Hibiscus, Weigela 'Eva Rathke', Argyranthemum, my one surviving cutting of Rothmannia and many others. The forecast is for rain for another week so some plants are going to be safer in the ground it would seem.
The garden at the Montville Uniting Church has been cleaned of weeds and fed pelletized fertilizer with dramatic results in only a week. We have potted Evolvulus pilosus and Cuphea for gaps in path way gardens.
From drought to flood our own garden has gone from "on hold" to bursting , especially with flower bud. Lets hope the rain stops in time for us to enjoy the flowers and not see them blown out with the weather, while we are stuck inside.
Michael Simpson