ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I have eight hydrangeas in the garden, a modest enough number but given their relatively large size in my small garden, enough. I rate them highly as ornamental plants, producing a fine display of bloom for a couple of months in June and July. Not one is a typical mop headed Hydrangea macrophylla, not because…
I seem to be accumulating drafts of blogs that never make it to being published. Nothing like a deadline to concentrate the mind. The weather is very much in blog finishing mode, endless drizzle. It always amazes me how much drizzle it takes to fill my water tanks; everything seems to be soaking wet but…
On thursday I was sowing cyclamen seeds, then yesterday I planted up some of the bare space in the front garden. It felt way too early to be sowing seeds and way too late to be planting. I have Cyclamen and Japanese anemones flowering. It seems like the chronological signposts have been removed. At least…
There's a mini-digger parked up on next doors drive, shortly to go into action to remove most of the soil from their front garden, to be replaced by gravel so they can park their vehicles. I'm finding it hard to see it as progress but maybe I'm just a grumpy old codger. Hey ho, where…
My mist system is not giving me the results I want. I had an infestation of fly larvae in it that started a few years back and slowly built to the point where I had to deal with it. I tried a few things to no effect so I decided that since the sand was…
Last week, Nate gave over her six to the arrival in her garden of a peacock. Would that I could follow her lead. Our week here has been dominated/overshadowed (take your pick) by a pair of gulls deciding to nest behind our chimney. We should have been more vigilant, but you simply can't see the…
I always collect quite a lot of seed from plants around the garden and have already started to do so this year. Some I need to collect because they are short lived plants that have to be grown anew from seed, some are interesting plants that I perhaps fancy having more of or want to…
Here is a video I put together of my garden in late June. Most of it was from the 26th. I'm pleased with how colourful it's looking. Pleased because colourful is perhaps the single most important quality I'm wanting from the garden. The colour mostly comes from flowers so there is the added dimension…
31°C Thursday, 19°C Friday, 17°C the forecast for today. It's raining too. You have to admire the way most plants cope; they can't put on a sun hat or don coat and gloves, they just have to put up with it. We've had more rain overnight, I don't know how much until I check the…
I have posted under the Six on Saturday meme for three years now, seeking out half a dozen items of note, usually on a Friday, to include in my contribution. The one constant throughout is that later on Saturday I will find something more interesting than anything I included. A flower will have opened, a…
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