ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
It fair takes my breath away how fast these posts come round. What on earth have I done since the last one? I'm back on the Camellia trail, visiting the National collection, updating records, sorting photos, processing video. Indoors, sat at a computer, not out in the garden where it's cold. We had our first…
It's getting steadily colder, especially at night, but still not low enough for frost, so while the garden is wind battered it is still mostly alive and kicking. As ever, I will only be bounced into moving stuff under cover and setting up heaters when frost is imminent. I have to admit I'm a little…
Last weekend fairly thoroughly trashed everything in the garden that was still looking half decent, so this weeks six on saturday might be a bit of a struggle compared to recent weeks. That said, today was a lovely day and I managed to drag myself up to my allotment and do a bit of weeding,…
Storm Austen is very slowly blowing itself out. It dropped 40mm of rain and blew gusts of around 60mph which have had me pretty worried for our one big tree. It's all looking very windswept but essentially intact out there. Not that I've been out there much, it's 11°C and feels like much less. It…
I did my usual Friday morning perambulation round the estate expecting to struggle to find anything much to include in a Saturday six. I was wrong, I ended up with three times as many as I need and all I have to do is choose which to use. For the most part big the blocks…
The temperature dropped to 6.6°C on Thursday morning so it's gradually getting more autumnal, having said which, the growth spurt that took off when the drought broke is showing no sign of abating. Funny old year, like every year.Not much has happened in my garden since last weekend so I'll just dive into my six…
We had a night of heavy rain on Tuesday but otherwise a week of benign weather. It's all looking remarkably good considering what it was like just a couple of months ago. While the garden is not too bad, my allotment is getting very weedy and the grass paths are growing lush and need cutting.…
I don't seem to have done much gardening over the last couple of weeks. A couple of weeks back I mentioned that I was working on increasing my water storage and that is what I have been working on. I have no more openings, it can all just slide gently into autumn without me obsessing…
Somehow the garden is going in two directions at once. There is a gradual seasonal winding down but at the same time there are things perking up and making new growth having shrivelled during the summer drought. Astilbes that had appeared to go dormant are putting out new leaves, as are some of my ferns.…
The busier a week is, the quicker Saturday comes around. This Saturday came round as quickly as any I can recall. Not that I'm about to share much with you, most of it being unrelated to gardening.Early in the week I spotted a small hedgehog out in the garden in mid afternoon, never a good…
