ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
We've been to three garden centres this week and in all of them there seemed to be surplus bedding plants by the truckload. It would not be a surprise to hear that plant sales have been down this year but if they are it is not for lack of trying on my part. In spite…
I obtained Begonia 'Torsa' in 2020 and I cannot remember from whom. It may have been from Tregrehan Plant Fair but if it was I still don't know which nursery was selling it. Never mind. It was kept in a pot through 2020 and over winter into 2021, under glass but with minimal heat. It…
Our first opening for NGS was yesterday, the second is today. Just four hours each day, 1 till 5; yesterday it rained for 3 of them. Last year people had pre-booked so they had to be stoic, this year they mainly didn't come. Perhaps they'll come today instead. The time spent "getting ready" has not…
It was hotter than I like yesterday, today is much cooler, overcast with a possibility of rain and I'm quite happy about that. All winter we want it dryer and warmer, when it's dry and warm we want cool and wet. Sad. The mid-season change over is almost complete, all the Aquilegias and most of…
As if at this time next year it's going to pop up again and remind me. A month or six weeks ago the first of my left in the ground Dahlias started to appear. They were all left in the ground, the only ones in pots were a couple I'd bought as bare tubers. I'd…
If ever a week slipped by without me noticing, it was the one just gone. Yesterday was pretty typical, Sue and I had agreed to be Stewards in the Flower Marquee at the the Royal Cornwall Show, 1-3pm. We knew the traffic would be terrible, and it was, so we set off around 10, which…
June already, there's not enough hours in the day or days in the week, to say nothing of energy in my body. The cottage garden look of flouncy self sown stuff continues, though the Aquilegias seem to have gone over quickly this year. The effect is briefly colourful and pretty but never tidy and it…
There's not a lot of point going to a rare plant fair and not coming away with something rare. The annual fair at Tregrehan garden is a form of torture for me, so many plants I would love to buy and so little room for them in my already overcrowded garden. Anything that grows big…
Our first opening of the summer is on 24th June, which is not very far away, and if I was looking for a single word to describe the state of the place at the moment it would be 'messy'. It never is a tightly controlled and manicured garden, but the informality level peaks around now…
When I did my last post on ferns in 2019 I hadn't covered all the ferns I grow and intended to return to the subject soon. It didn't happen. I recently updated my ferns list and realised that I'd in fact mentioned less than half of those I have now, not all of which are…
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