ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Even when it hasn't been raining in the last couple of weeks, the light levels have been low and my attempts to produce a film snapshot have left me with hours of profoundly dull footage. The conceit that I hold to is that I have an all year round garden with at least a few…
It's been a couple of weeks since we had a frost that pretty much drew a line under the 2023 gardening year. I've done a bit of cutting down and tidying but it is still something of a soggy mess out there. I thought I'd seen the last of the autumn flowering Camellias, the open flowers…
I dragged myself out this morning and did a bit of gardening, then found myself this afternoon taking the glass off someone else's greenhouse to remove the moss balls and try to get it a bit more watertight. The frost last weekend saw off just about every remaining flower and though some of the Camellias…
I wonder what proportion of my SoS posts start off talking about the weather; most of them for sure. We probably just about hit zero Thursday night and by the time this post goes live at 7.30am, I shall know whether we hit the BBC's -4°C or the Met Offices' -2°C or neither of them.…
Only a month until 25th December. Frost forecast for tonight, several more over coming days. Nothing extreme but enough to be worrisome; what have I forgotten to bring in, should I have covered this and that. We've had a run of around four dry days, which I've taken advantage of to the extent of raking…
It's raining; again or still or both. The weather seems to have been in the same rut since July and looks set to stay in it. I'm slightly surprised that more things haven't collapsed in a mushy heap on the ground. It hasn't been really cold, a frost would reduce a lot of the soft…
I’ve been out in the garden with my camera to take a snapshot of how it looks in November. It's still quite passable, provided you don't look too closely. I've done a bit of cutting down and tidying up, need to do more, but the great thing with a camera is you can choose what…
Looking at the garden from an upstairs window, especially when the sun is shining, it really doesn't look bad at all. Get down amongst it and things are less rosy; it's soggy and mouldering and if we get the dry day the forecast is promising for tomorrow I'm going to chop a lot down, shred…
They're a funny group of plants, Begonias. In the UK, for most people what comes to mind when you mention Begonias is the bedding plant Begonia semperflorens and all the other brassy and brash bedding types, followed by the houseplants, typified by the rex tribe and their propensity for dying in short order. I already…
Storm Ciaran came and went and in spite of dire warnings we escaped with very little damage as it seems to have tracked a little further south than it might have, with the strongest winds hitting the Channel Islands and northern France. The garden did get something of a thrashing though and I think it…
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