ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
OMG I'm a nervous wreck. They arrived to start on our drive on Thursday. A day of breaking concrete ensued, a day in fear of them breaking much more than concrete. Friday was a bit of a respite as they were only here for three hours, levelling out the base layer. I'd had to clear…
I took a spray from a camellia I grow called ‘Koto-no-kaori’ to the HPS meeting yesterday evening and it really got people’s attention. A single pink, with 5-6cm flowers clustered along the stems, and with a sweet fragrance. It also has small leaves and a thin twigged, not too stiff habit of growth. In short,…
I spent a good deal of yesterday carrying on the clean up after storm Eunice a week ago, mercifully in someone else's garden, not my own. Looking carefully around the other trees in her garden I spotted signs of heave around another big tree, leaning towards and well within reach of her neighbour's house. It'll…
It’ll be a miracle if this works. We have no proper internet connection, I’m working through someone else’s access, next door presumably. Just need to get pictures from my computer to the iPad as the computer won’t connect to the same Wi-fi. There’ll be a way to do it but I’m too old. One. Has…
I thought WordPress was being a bit odd yesterday and this morning when I went to publish my post the draft had vanished. I'm doing a Saturday rewrite. Yesterday was just a bit frosty, today is brisk and breezy with rain not far off. Our cats go a bit mental when it's windy. I've been…
It's not getting any easier to find six things to include. Things are sort of happening, two or three camellias with one flower apiece, crocus blooms that don't open because it's dull and cold, daffodil buds, weeds, slugs. Anyway, here goes. One.Camellia 'Quintessence'. This was planted out a year ago having been in a pot…
Another drab winters day here but a bit less cold than it's been. By the end of next week something might have changed out there but right now there's no discernible difference from a week ago. I seem to have this notion in my head that for something to be "happening" it must have progressed…
Actually I was thinking of the song by Billy Holiday which is Gloomy Sunday. There is a song called Gloomy Monday but it's quite cheerful by comparison. I don’t know if there is an official midwinter point for the UK but from a gardening point of view it would perhaps fall close to the end…
Thursday night was proper cold, a real shame because there are a few more Camellias starting to flower now and it has toasted them. Fortunately I took a few pictures on Thursday afternoon, having seen the forecast. It's what would have been happening Saturday had the weather been kinder. One.Camellia grijsii. As in many plant…
It was a beautiful day yesterday once it had warmed up a bit. Perfect gardening weather. What was I doing? I was clearing out the attic. All that junk I arrived with 30 odd years ago; a car load went to the dump this morning, there's a lot more still to go. If there'd been…
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