Gardening in Texas, never boring.

Yes, it seems the weather can be very unpredictable. But where in Texas is 12" predicted? San Antonio has gotten less than a half an inch where I am. One and a half to three inches predicted for Saturday. I hope we get that much.

I don't think any of the weather people predicted 12 inches, but some places are getting that much. Dallas had 13 inches yesterday according to the news.

I live in Williamson county. Per the news we already have 7.18" and expect another 3-4" yet to come today. As soon as it gets light enough to see our rain gauge I will let you know what we had here.

Ft Worth area here, I could go swimming in my side yard. Looks like a pond.

We so needed this rain, but as per typical Texas, not all at one time!

Thanks Helen and Turnage. I just took a peek at my rain gauge and we got over 4 1/2 inches last night and it's still coming down steadily. WeatherUnderground and AOL weather predict 1 to 2 inches overall for Sat.. How could they be so far off? I emptied the gauge as it only goes to five inches.

Where I live in Austin, we got over 8 inches of rain. My rain gauge only goes to 5 inches and I emptied it this morning, too, as it was overflowing. Most of the rest of Austin only got 2-3 inches of rain. I have a round 4' x 2' stock tank and it's overflowing so I have rainwater to use for awhile. Glad for the good soak, but would prefer it not all come at once!

I'm up to 7" as of 10am in Spring Branch (between SA and Blanco), NOT Houston!

Far NW Austin - about 7" here and it's still raining. Had less than 1/10" from end of June until last Tuesday so am glad, but also would have liked a slower delivery!

I has not stopped raining around Kyle since last night.

Omar

We left San Antonio this morning at 6:30 and it was really pouring rain. We had 3 inches in the gauge when we got home (just north of Fort Worth). It appears that we had a good deluge probably around 8 or 9 am judging by the flashing clocks in the house.

We were not expecting the strong winds after the rain. We have our birdbath overturned, the large plummies and palm trees in pots, our wrought iron bicycle and our trellis... all overturned or leaning sideways. We'll just leave them on the ground until the winds die down.

Wow Irene, I didn't get that kind of wind. The big wind chimes bonged a few times, but it was nothing like you had.

Over the last two days there was a total of a little less than seven inches in the rain gauge. Most of it came down fairly steadily, but slowly so it sank in ... :-)

Could these winds be from the tropical storm already? We certainly were not prepared. We've got the ground covered with pecans and leaves. (I've tried to post a pic that I uploaded to photobucket, but it just shows the "link language." )

Irene sent the photos to me to see so I'm posting them.

Look at those poor plummies. If I remember correctly one of the plants that turned over might have been a pony tail palm. What's a good way to secure tall potted plants in case of wind?

And the bougies and other plants on cute bicycle plant holder ...

She said the trellis with the yellow pots was tied to the orchid tree with a really heavy chain
and all it did was bend over the whole limb of the tree. It's a good thing that
it was chained because that would have crushed her gardenia bush!

Dang, sure sorry you have all that mess to clean up.

We had a similar thing happen this spring. Just one whoosh of wind came through after the rain and twisted some very high limbs on the Arroya sweet wood tree. It took a looong extension ladder for Bob to get high enough to cut them down.

Thanks, Ragna. I remember when you mentioned that Bob was up on an extension ladder trimming some limbs. I didn't realize that it was your Arroya Sweet Wood. Yes, the large pony tail palm was among the pots brought down by the winds. It's in a pretty large pot but it was no match for the wind. It's large size and height probably acted as a sail. You have a very good memory... remembering that the palm was in that corner!

I think that East Texas might be starting to feel the effects from what is coming up from Patricia now. But our rain in central Texas so far probably wasn't affected much, if any. We got a bit over 3 inches, that was all.

http://www.ksat.com/live/watch-live-tracking-patricia-south-texas-doppler-radar

And i f we would have gotten just HALF that 2 months ago, two of the Wax Myrtle bushes I had planted three years ago might not have died! ! I have a sprinkler system, plus I hand watered. I'm just sick about it. :(

SO far we got over 7 " of rain. My garden is one soggy mud pit. I am afraid all of the seed I planted in last 2 week has floated away. Only thing I still see are the brocholli seedlings I planted a few weeks ago.

Pattycakes, I'm sorry you lost your three year old Wax myrtle bushes. It seems that lots of us had plants die. So much so I started a thread on it in hopes we could identify what went wrong and how we could prevent it happening again. For one thing I think that in trying to correct the white anemic looking leaves on roses I over fertilized and burnt the roots.

Three inches in my rain gauge from last night and more to come ....

The rain was so severe we bit the bullet and parked in the parking garage at Austin airport for a quick weekend trip. So far we have been sitting in the airport with no planes landing or taking off for a couple of hours.

San Marcos flooded again....

Omar

I call the plants with rotted roots ill prepared for drought, "spoiled brat plants". I have a lot of them this year. My rosemary is croaking

I was driving back from New Mexico through all of this. I drove to OKC and then hear. My son's house in one of the lowest spots in San Marcus made the news for the second time in a year. He said he had 2' of water in his parking lot. He moved his car onto of the sidewalk up to his steps to his second floor apartment. I had a very exciting drive through the storms on Friday .