Like Michelle, I live in a warmer climate. It is subtropical here and I love the freedom of loose and few clothes and thongs or flip flops as footwear. It is basically two seasons: hot, cold : wet, dry: growing, little growing.
In this, I am a little biased against 4 seasons. I think back to the gardening books of my youth, which were basically literature dumps from England. I still think most Australian gardening magazines are just southern rags with English roots with a page or column that pretends interest in gardening in the north. I must admit, however, in the last 30 years, native plants have taken off, which has forced some major changes in gardening fashion.
But, here, this time of year is entrancing as plants burst with life and bloom. Alas, they also burst with weed. With the rain I have had to start weeding. I am loathe to while the daylilies are still flowering - I just knock buds off all the time: drives me to despair. For 5 months, daylilies rule, but as the blooming stops, I let the tomatoes, native paper daisies, buttercups and hibiscus, gladiolas, chillies, coleus, sunflowers, pumpkins, cucumber, strawberries, and lilies come through. The daylilies are widely separated. I use natives and apple mint as groundcovers. The apple mint wasn't planned. It just took off.
