Gardeners are rejoicing at recent rains with parched soils soaking up every drop and water tanks overflowing. Despite a horrendous summer Victorian gardens have come back with a vengeance. I know in my own case everything is looking lush and floriferous with my wisteria (pictured here in my front courtyard with yours truly) that heralder of spring, a glorious mass of purple/lilac racemes.

The azaleas, lavender, heliotropes, rosemary, box hedges and camellias are also a mass of blooms or displaying new growth and the climbing roses are covered in buds.

But we're not out of the woods yet regarding water according to Tony Kelly, the managing director of Yarra Valley Water and industry spokesman for Target 155.
Melbourne may have had the best September rain for 12 years but it was not of the biblical proportions required to fill the catchments and tide us over another long, hot summer, he said.
Whereas the city once received 600-650 millilitres of rain a year, now it was as low as 300 millilitres.

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