I can tell you this...everyone I know who gardens is having a banner year for basil. It loves this weather.

I stopped counting how much rain after 20". We've had over 5" the last 2 days.

Lilacs are full of mildew. Petunias are all pretty dead looking, even with cutting back. Tomatoes were horrible this year. One astilbe died but it could've been the voles. Maybe more are moldy but I haven't gardened much due to rain and mosquitoes lately.

I lost two Lo and Behold butterfly bushes. They hate waterlogged soil, and even on a small slope, I guess the clay just wouldn’t drain enough.

My lawn looked great all summer. The guys would mow on Mondays and by Wednesdays it needed cut again. I also noticed very few grubs. Maybe they drowned?

My big leaf hydrangeas never wilted! OTOH they didn't bloom, either, despite my attempts to protect them last winter. I didn't see a SINGLE Japanese beetle this summer, while picking them off the roses, apple trees, hibiscus, etc. is usually a daily routine. I only watered the mixed borders once mid-summer, but many of the flowers I counted on to bloom in early August are only blooming NOW, and sparsely - marigolds, cosmos, dahlias, tall blue ageratum. A forest of cannas I planted in early May is just now reaching full height, with nary a bloom. I consider this year to be an investment in growth. New plants established themselves without my having to haul hoses and buckets. The other consolation was green grass.

I had plenty of rain- five inches this past weekend alone- but nothing suffered from it. I'm grateful for every drop!

I had to give my limelight hydrangeas a bit of a haircut, so much rain this past 2 weeks that they needed it a bit, I don’t think I had any problems with anything really, I planted about 24 baby boxwoods about 3 weeks ago and they are loving all this water.

Basil is fine, the regular sized tomatoes rotted before they were ripe, but I got cherry tomatoes, asparagus seems fine (too young to pick, but the fronds are growing nicely for harvest in a couple years). My wild high bush blueberries were happy. Horseradish never cares. I even pulled it up by accident, re-planted, and it doesn't care!

Hostas have never a care in the world in this rain.

Unfortunately, my weeds have been more than enthusiastic. Sigh.

Interesting.. some people have absolutely no problems and some people did like me. The mosquito population over here exploded. There are swarms of them literally going after me every day. Its good that I didn't have to give any supplemental watering to my plants but too many fungus problems happen in this much rain. Is there really no way of combating fungus diseases caused by the excessive rain? Or do I just have to keep watching my plants suffer and die. Because even if you apply fungicide the rain will only wash it away.

I wonder if a state exists where there is consistently 1 inch of rain a week in spring and summer, almost no precipitation(other than snow) in winter, doesn't go below -5 degrees in winter but not a warm winter like in the PNW and southeast(need a pretty good freeze for fungal reasons), doesn't go over 85 degrees in summer, humidity is low in summer, no natural disasters, no voles or Japanese beetles. I would do anything to move to a place like that.

Sounds to me like eastern Newfoundland :-)

Before the Calverts established a colony in Maryland, they tried one near St. John's, NF. Since they were heading pretty much due west from England, they thought they would hit a similarly temperate climate. However, the world works differently on this side of the Atlantic, and though the site was a zone 7, like Maryland, the summers are very different. After a couple of years, they decided to relocate south, to a place that had summer.

I think it was ParksCanada who was doing a fairly serious archeological dig there when we visited years ago.

SW PA We didn't get the rain that eastern PA got last week, but earlier this week we broke records over 3 days of rain and wind. The large sun flowers were all up rooted and had to be throw them away. I had to pick my pumpkins. I wanted to wait till next week to pick. They were starting to rot due to the water saturated ground. Now we are waiting to see what Florence is going to dump on the already saturated ground.

We have been very dry, but go a few miles inland and they were inundated. We were dry, and then we were HOT and HUMID, and I was pee-ohed, because I traded in my Alabama sweat glands when I moved to Maine, and I am DONE DONE DONE DONE with heat and humidity. The humidity is still hanging on a teeny weeny bit which means I am short-tempered, so, no, we did not suffer from any excessive rain. We were dry, crappy, and then soupy. %$%*&^#%*!!!!!!!!!

When we were drowning a few weeks back, my lavenders rotted. While many things were yellowing from overwatering, they suffered the worst. I stopped watering when everything was being watered naturally, and stopped checking the gardens so often because I had some crazy call shifts and was exhausted. Tonight I went outside, and everything was crispy. Ugh. I'm actually ready for the frosts to start, I want to cut it all down and wait for spring to start it all over again.

I wonder if the wet is what brought the mole back.... Grrrrrrrrrrrr...

Oh right, the lavenders! I forgot them. All black. Anyone know if they should be cut back, or just left to recover as is? Or is it hopeless?

You can cut the lavenders back some but you have to leave actual green portions. It's a good time to leave a long bare stem with some good healthy growth on the end and ground layer it for next year. I use ground staples but a rock will do.

My lavenders did OK in the rain but I have them in the driest, fastest draining, sunniest spots around. I don't choose where to put the lavender- the conditions choose for me,

As far as fungal problems- if I had something with extreme fungal problems after a heavy rain I'd tend to let it go and find a resistant variety. Things are always evolving out there and for me something that can't deal with what I have is easy to let go. Lots of times something I want is not something I can have. I love my monardas but I let several varieties go this year because of their insistence on developing powdery mildew. I'll just divide and move those varieties that didn't get it.

Kitasei, wait till spring to cut the lavenders. Wait till the green growth starts. The plant, in this area, (Hudson Valley), likes to keep its old growth as winter protection.

Not much to complain about here. I think my garden suffered more from the lack of rain in the spring, than the increase in rain later in the season. The heavier summer rain did make a lot of my stuff bend over, which is irritating. But whatever. I have one lush garden going...