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, but it is still fun to watch. The garden will be open for the National Gardens Scheme next June (I will try to remind you nearer the time).As the ground is so wet, we have the luxury of not having to worry too much about water supply as it just gushes out

, soaking up the sun. What a life.When it comes to gardening, her first love is watering, as previously described in this blog. It's hard getting through an evening of watering over summer without Magic getting involved (and soaked during the process).But a

garden without life? There are already too many public spaces filled with hanging baskets 'planted' with fake flowers. I stand at train stations and lament the sight of bees and hoverflies wasting energy working out that their search for food is in vain

by flooding. It’s hard to imagine anything worse happening to your home.Putting up with a wet garden could appear rather trivial in the context of major weather events, but the past few years have highlighted how variable and extreme our weather has become

. Cats regard gardener with a supercilious look as if they were Duchesses and you, the de facto owner of the garden, just the lowliest drip on the nose of a tramp.So how to deal with it? Everybody seems to have a theory. Some say filled bottles of water

, but as soon as her back is turned they're back. Aren't they always?I can't think of anything useful my dog actually does in the garden. Despite poodles being quite intelligent dogs and easy to train to do tricks, so far she hasn't taken to weeding. Watering

for garden use in the 1970s. Liquid nicotine is extremely dangerous to all living creatures and was used widely as an insecticide for many, many years. It was either mixed with water as a spray or else vaporised in lamps - in which case the gardener lit

. So many dilemmas.I toyed with the idea of buying a living tree, with roots, but I didn't want it in the garden. If we had put it out of sight then it would have remained un-watered and would have died a miserable and lonely death. However

in the What to do now section of the magazine are taken in my garden. It's not massive, and I don't have any help looking after it, so it has to be run just as anyone else working full-time would run their garden.No, I can't water the whole thing just to keep

. Ross's interest began when his mum bought a bromeliad and gave him the task of watering it; Elaine discovered gardening by being wheeled around in her granddad's wheelbarrow and Cat buried a mouldy tomato in a pot of soil and ended up (miraculously