ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I’m in the middle of reading James Rebanks’ ‘English Pastoral'. A chapter back he was expressing a concept which struck me as particularly insightful. “the field” he says, “is the base layer on which our entire civilisation is built”. It is not a natural thing, it has been created by land clearance, perhaps thousands of…
This little corner of the kingdom didn't get the warmest day of the year that most of the rest of you got yesterday. I spent much of the day wrestling with my water storage system so it's ready for the rain that isn't in the forecast either. It's benign weather, the flowers are lasting well…
Well, that was a full on horticultural week. Camellia Society meeting on Monday, Mount Edgcumbe on Wednesday (camellias), full day on my allotment on Thursday and a couple of days of pricking off, potting up and on, pruning and so on around the garden. I want to get another day in on the allotment today,…
I'm all behind and I'm not even sure why. I took pictures yesterday, was out at the Cornwall Garden Society Spring Show in the afternoon but escaped the evening reception but came back and just didn't get the job done. We have visitors coming for the weekend and I've a million things need doing, not…
My goal this weekend is to get a gate up at the side of the house. How difficult could that possibly be? I'll tell you next week, if I've finished it by then. I have avoidance strategies lined up, like visiting the garden centre and going to Lanhydrock. I have peas to plant, seedlings to…
I'm going to do this the wrong way round with pictures first and words after. Unless you're contemplating something similar you probably won't want to read the full story. Suffice it to say that our nasty concrete driveway has ben replaced with a block paver driveway and looks a great deal better than it did.…
Sunshine at last, and we've missed most of the frosts too. It's all happening. The driveway is finished and some of the peripheral reinstatement has been tackled. Last year around this time I was also mired in construction projects, I may even get it all out of the way earlier this year and get down…
The work on our driveway has ground on all week and will run a couple of days into next week. I've not done much in the garden, which continues to slowly awaken from its slumbers. Another foul spell of windy and wet weather is forecast for this afternoon which I'm not looking forward to since…
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,…
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