Just as the Inuit language contains 50 different words for snow *, in North Devon we have a similar amount for rain in all its incarnations. Today it mizzled, drizzled, thought about raining, poured down, threatened, spat, spotted, dripped and tipped. Still at the Farm we worked through most of the day, clutching onto the charlatan weather forecaster’s promise of intermittent showers. By the end of the day I was soaked through sturdy waterproofs all the way to my liberty bodice. Whilst dashing from thundercloud to thundercloud, this Rudbeckia “Irish Eyes” was glowing in the gloom, supported and supporting the Cerinthe major. A rather nice pairing, I thought.
*It appears that this much bandied fact is thought by many to be at best apocryphal, at worst a hoax. Some however are adamant this statement is true. The “many” and the “some” are academics, professors of linguistics and the like, you would think that between themselves they could work it out. Anyway, as I was just using it as a handy way to illustrate that it rains a lot in North Devon, and I don’t (unfortunately) know any Inuits, I cannot confirm this either way. It may have been better just to have said “it rains a lot here”. It rains a lot here.
Off The Edge Gardening 
And you can remember ‘liberty bodices’ surely not.😀
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Ha! I think my nan used to wear one, love the name 🙂
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I don’t know any Inuits either, so in the winter I just say – it snows a lot here! 🙂
Cute the Rudbeckia with green eyes.
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I was depending on you to know! This is a lovely Rudbeckia, we grow it as an annual.
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I painted an Inuit woman and her baby all snugly wrapped in fur. It gets cold up there.
I’ll just say: the suns shines far too much here.
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I think I remember that picture, it has been on your blog hasn’t it? Lovely!
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I’m glad to hear it’s raining somewhere in the world. It’s certainly not raining here. Cerinthe is a lovely plant and the combination with Rudbeckia is a good idea.
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It has worked well, I am pleasantly surprised! ps will try to blow rain over to yourself and Kayti!
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I like the green center. 🙂 Does it eventually turn black when it goes to seed, or more of a brown?
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Now you have got me thinking! I don’t think it changes 🙂
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