ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Almost a third of the year gone and it hardly seems to have got started. Things are growing but plants like Dahlias and Begonias, that want a bit more warmth, seem to be falling behind. It's probably the same every year but just now I'm only concerned with this year. There's no shortage of things…
Ever since I took out the leylandii hedge along the edge of the garden - at least twenty years ago - we have had problems with honey fungus. So called because of its honey coloured toadstools, which we have rarely seen, it has taken a steady toll of mainly woody plants, the latest of which…
Once again, I'm scheduling this post and going out for the day. Rosemoor garden is hosting the RHS National Rhododendron show, with a late Camellia competition thrown in. The weather forecast isn't great, so I probably wouldn't have got a lot done in the garden but there is plenty needing doing. It feels like it's…
It has served me well thus far in my life to keep my head down and generally pass unnoticed. Quite why I am heading off to Kent this weekend to lead a camellia study tour is something of a mystery to me. I just want to be quietly pottering about in my own garden really.…
What a difference a bit of sunshine makes, to both the gardener and the garden. We've had quite low temperatures at night this week but no frost, and there's a sense that the garden is going through the phases, Scillas and crocus finished flowering, now leafy; tulips, primroses, Erythroniums, Muscari taking their turn. Things are…
Since my host post has to go out bright and early on a Saturday morning, it usually gets written on Friday. This time it's Thursday, tomorrow sees me at the Cornwall Garden Society Show in the afternoon, followed by a talk to St Breward garden club in the evening. With a weather warning for gales…
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