ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Day one of 2026 garden opening done and dusted. Weatherwise an iffy day so might get a better turnout tomorrow with the forecast return to heatwave conditions. The garden club came Wednesday and were very complimentary. This week's six is a bit of a case of what they all might have been taken with when…
Where did that week go? I blinked and missed it. The garden seems to have slowed down, it's been relatively cool with very little sun and I went out today wondering what I could find to include in my six. Sue's cacti are building up for another show so I have a cactus header. I…
They're forecasting a very windy Saturday for us tomorrow, not really what I want. A fortnight away from a garden opening and all I can see are the things that will be over and the things that wont be out quite yet. I try not to make changes just before an opening, so I regard…
Enough already. I get fed up with overly hot weather just as quickly as wet. Take your eye off something for a moment and its scorched or shrivelled. And everything is over so quickly when it's hot; last week I was waiting for a peony to open, a week on and both that flower and…
It seems to me that the heatwave that arrived today for most of the UK was being talked up a week ago. It's been a long time getting here. I'm resigned to a sizeable chunk of the next several days being spent watering. Not that I'm complaining, well perhaps a little. Everything is growing like…
It seems to have been blowing a gale almost all week, and none too warm either. It's been a fairly productive week garden wise though, coming along. I've been playing with a new camera, it's going to take a lot of getting used to but I'm seeing potential. All it takes is six pictures and…
Another week of doing precious little else but gardening. I don't feel I'm getting ahead, but maybe I'm holding my own. At least the weather is playing ball, dry but not too hot. I still spend a lot of time watering, the price of growing too much in pots. I'm just looking at one of…
I took a call from a lady at Polgooth Garden club, wanting to pay a visit to our garden in June, a couple of days ahead of our first NGS opening. It's only seven weeks away! The last few days I've been going round thinking I could do worse than have an opening at the…
Oh what a lovely day. Sunny, warmish, the wind had finally dropped and it was a simple pleasure to be pottering around in the garden, planting, watering, potting on. Should I run out of things to do in my garden I always have my allotment to keep me busy. No shortage of things to include…
Thank you all for your sympathetic words regarding Sue's passing. Many of you alluded to the solace to be found in gardening at times such as these and it is indeed where I have spent much of my time in the last couple of days. It seems to me that the solace to be found…
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