ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Two Friday the thirteenths in succession. Good thing I'm not superstitious. The gardening season continues to pick up slowly and in the case of this week it perhaps went back a bit. I'm up at Rosemoor tomorrow (Saturday) for their Spring Flower Showcase, including the RHS Early Camellia Competition. We've had a couple of days…
We've had two dry days in a row and tomorrow is set to make three. We really do seem to be moving into spring. I'm itching to get stuck in to gardening tasks but it must be too early to contemplate no more frost and start putting things outside. I need to be patient and…
Another month down, March tomorrow. I'm slowly getting back to gardening, tidying up mostly, but some seed sowing too. I started the long deferred task of cleaning out my propagator, with a view to getting cuttings of a few things under way; Fuchsias for one, not sure what else yet. Taking photos for this week's…
I had it on my to do list to sow some tomato seeds today and somehow or other it didn't happen. I took some pictures in the drizzle this morning, then it brightened up so I chose to go out and take them again. What else did I do? Where did the day go? Now…
A week ago I was getting a bit excited about a pot of snowdrops I'd been given. This week I have nothing to get excited about and last week's excitement was probably overblown, now that I've realised what I had been gifted. Oops, that sounds very ungrateful, which was not my intention. I've done the…
A friend of Sue's came round earlier and gave me a pot of snowdrops. I'm a million miles from being a galanthophile but even I could see that they were not an 'ordinary' variety, but I have no idea what they are, and not much idea how to find out. I'll take some pictures and…
I did a talk for St Breward Garden Club this afternoon (Friday). Time was when garden clubs all had evening meetings but there are a few now holding meetings in the afternoon. Most members are retired, many are getting on a bit and don't find night driving very easy. It suited me, driving across Bodmin…
It's storm Ingrid this weekend, more wind, more rain; hopefully not more damage. It's tipping down just now so I'm indoors and staying there. I've not seen much of the garden this week, again, and what little I have seen has merely underlined how little has changed since last week.Six on Saturday calls for pictures…
It's beginning to feel like winter has been going on for a long time and needs to loosen its grip. On the other hand, I don't want time itself to go any quicker, it's way too fast as it is. I've scraped together another six items, for one of which (number two), the modern world…
Storm Goretti was probably the big news of this week as far as the garden is concerned. The Met Office red warning area fell just a few miles short of us here and we didn't suffer any significant damage, though we were on edge for several hours. Aside from that, the cold spell seems to…
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