ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
There's a demon out there, lounging atop his fluffy white cloud, watching and waiting. I walk out the door, he turns on the tap; I go back in, he turns it off again. Do I thwart his childish games by donning waterproofs and staying out, or by staying in until he gets bored and goes…
I had a bit of a tidy up in my greenhouse, sorting out my yound plants of Begonia 'Torsa'. Collected a lot of bulbils. Then I went round the plants of it I have in the garden and collected some more. I ended up with quite a lot, 473 to be precise. Growild Nursery had…
The November edition of the television programme that I mentioned two months ago has now gone up on the Cornwall Stress Free Television Vimeo channel, where I brave the weather to tell you a bit about what is happening in my garden in autumn. https://vimeo.com/770689446
I really thought I was going to struggle to find six things this week but the wind dropped a couple of days back, the rain is having a few days off and the temperatures are absurd for the time of year, so a lot of plants are just keeping on going. My Dahlias have been…
Begonia 'Garden Angel Blush' 2nd July 2022 This is undoubtedly a contender for best performing plant in my garden this year. I put it into a "Six on Saturday" post on 11th June, noting that it was shaping up well, and now, on 6th November, it is still looking good, if a little windswept by…
This is my third week of hosting six on saturday and I think I've just about got the hang of it. The scheduling thing has tripped me up, and the Twitter link worked one week but not the other. I apologise if anything strange has happened at your end, this week I'm hoping to get…
The Propagator, who started this meme back in May 2017, wrote a participant guide in September 2017. It's still on his website, here, but I thought I would duplicate it on this site in case you've landed here since he handed the reins to me and perhaps don't even know that he was Mr Six…
The only conspicuous casualty in my garden this summer was Berberis 'Golden Torch'. In spring and early summer it had grown very well, quickly covering up the wire ties I had used to try to achieve a tidier column and create a smaller scale echo of the big fastigiate Yew. In July a few dead…
Last weekend almost went according to plan. Just a small matter of failing to realise the significance of UTC+0, meaning it didn't automatically publish at 7:30am but was manually published at 7:35am instead. I'm off to Rosemoor today, for the AGM of the RHS RCM Group. Don't even bother to work it out, it doesn't…
I have a complicated system of collecting water from various roof areas and shifting it around into various containers. In 15 separate vessels I have arond 4000L of stored water. I have just added 2000L more, in the shape of two intermediate bulk containers (IBC's), in the simplest way possible. Let me give you the…
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