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Oh my your climate does sound to be changing India...while ours clearly is in a state of flux, from one extreme to the other and with 35 and counting years here now (37 this year since we touched down), on average it's in the year after good rain that things die. The temperatures are up significantly from those early days, that's for sure, and I blame much of that on the sprawl...the roofs and roads where once there were trees, bush and grasslands. We've lost a couple of good trees this year and another one looks to be on the turn - always the ones that are 'drought tolerant' - the ones you'd think most sensible to plant here...but they sure can't tolerate big wets which is understandable. Swings and roundabouts...and as for bore water...the results are stark when it's not mixed with rainwater...

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Oh my...such sadness is always somewhere in our midst Sally...what a beautiful gift you gathered lift your neighbour's spirits. You're way ahead of me in the Dahlia stakes - one orange has opened but this weekend I actually covered them with hessian to shade as they were getting badly scorched even before the heatwave conditions. Glad you have some reading to do! And the Pineapple Lily just gets better and better...the tight buds are beginning to open now, one at a time. Keep cool Sally. Mx

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