ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Lordy, where did that month go? It's deep into the time of preparing for next season, this one being dead and gone. I've been planting, digging up and potting, moving and chucking out. I write myself lists, the current one still has less things done than not.It being the weird year it is, on Tuesday…
It's been a dreary old week where very little gardening has been done. I did manage to get up to Mt Edgcumbe and Antony House on Thursday, trying to identify a recalcitrant Camellia or two, with limited success. At least I was outdoors and away from the house, which feels the more liberating for being…
When I removed the tunnel from the garden it was because it was a bit of a blot on the landscape. Sue and I have always acknowledged as much but it was just so useful that we were prepared to put up with it. Like much else, that all changed when we started to seriously…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 4 – 18/11/2020
We popped out to a garden centre and a nursery yesterday just for a mooch around. Came away with a tree stake and one Cyclamen between them. Neither seemed to have much stock. Since both produce a lot of their own plants I thought the end of the growing season would be a good time…
Three weeks ago I had completed the stonework to face my side of the bank between us and our neighbours. The bank however, is only 70cm high on our side so provided no privacy now that the hedge on top had been removed. Last year the next neighbour along had replaced the bank between us…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 3 – 9/11/2020
At the end of a week of gardening where I barely engaged with plants at all, I'm going to do six plants. I just looked back to last week's six and I'd barely started on my fence. Somehow I've pressed on through rain and shine and it's now finished. I've tidied up and turned my…
This sort of weather makes it hard to get enthusiastic about anything, let alone gardening. I wanted to crack on with my fence this week but it's a mud bath out there so progress has been slow. There has been some though. I also sowed seed of a couple of things. Four more and I…
It's a dull old day, drizzle, heavy cloud cover. Getting late in the year too, so the sun isn't very strong even when it's shining. On a positive note, my Camellia sasanqua 'Navajo' is starting to flower; I'd better get some pictures of it, I only have 171 already, I must need some more. In…
I just spent the last hour blasting mealy bugs off cacti, at which point the skies opened and I ran for cover. Such a glamorous life. I was expecting to be fencing this weekend, the kind with bits of wood, not swords. Unfortunately only part of what I'd ordered was delivered, so now the rest…
Three dumpy bags of local quarry stone were carefully lowered onto our neighbour's parking area on Friday. I set to work straight away, wheeling it in my trusty wheelbarrow up to the top end of the garden. Two tonnes were shifted on Friday afternoon, the remaining tonne on Saturday morning. Our estate was built 40…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 2 – 19/10/2020
