Hello all,
here in the southwest of Germany, we had a wet spring, which I thought was good, because our roses enjoyed the early hot days of recent years, but not us. At our age, that really reduces our motivation to move around, we only do what is necessary. We are getting more and more Mediterranean temperatures here. We have to water our garden in hot summers with expensive drinking water, but this time, thanks to the rain, that only happened once. August was only a really hot and humid summer month and ended abruptly at the beginning of September, thank God. We were only able to use the terrace once this year, otherwise it was too windy and rainy or too hot again. (It faces south). The foresters reported that the groundwater was replenished again this year. Our small lawn didn't burn this year either. It's getting autumnal now, but we also have lovely, pleasantly warm sunny days in between - in German, called "Altweiber summer".
Here is a scrap from our rainy July 24