ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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…
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