ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Hmmmph! I don't like wind. Two days of wind and all the pot plants that are lying down start to turn sideways. I haven't been up the allotment to see how Dahlias and runner beans have fared. I've been pinned down indoors. It's not good for brevity. One. Fuchsia of the week is Fuchsia procumbens.…
I have been growing Dahlias in the garden for years, plants that I have purchased from various places. In 2015, not on top of my dead heading, I picked off a couple of dead flowers from the varety ‘Orange Cushion’ and realised that they contained good looking seed. In the spring of 2016 I sowed…
Last week Chris in Canada featured six veggies and I all but promised him I'd do the same this week. Sorry Chris, I'll do a separate blog on my veg plot, there's too much going on here in the garden. One. Fuchsia of the week just had to be 'Vera Garcia'. Sid Garcia used to…
In spite of being fairly densely planted, I still get gaps appearing in the garden for a variety of reasons. Maybe something has died or I’ve taken something out; something that came up early has died down or been cut down by mid summer or something failed to make the growth it was expected to.…
There's too much going on, I've taken photos of at least a dozen things and what makes the cut is pretty much random. I think maybe I'll do another blog on fillers, the plants that get added as the season progresses to plug gaps. That way I can perhaps whittle this lot down to six.…
I've rarely been so pleased to have rain; a good drop too, enough to fill the water tanks and give the garden a good watering. Knowing it was coming on Friday, my usual day for taking SoS pictures, I had decided on Wednesday that I would focus on the things we grow in pots and…
It's a few weeks since we last had significant rain so the garden is caught between full summer flowery blowsiness and dusty tiredness. Watering accounts for the lion's share of gardening activity, though I need to pick blackcurrants and that will eat up a few hours. One. Habranthus brachyandrus. I bought a little pot of…
The fine weather continues and the garden responds. I've been spending a lot of time watering, mostly pots but some things in the ground that are beginning to suffer too. I have lots flowering at the moment, so somewhat spoiled for choice, but I'm not keen on really bright sunshine for taking pictures of flowers.…
Cloud moved in at 3pm yesterday, bringing to an end almost two days of temperatures in the mid to high twenties which, accompanied as it had been by a strong and gusty wind, was getting a bit trying. To those of you for whom 25°C is barely warm and who are accustomed to months of…
Three weeks ago, the boundary between our garden and neighbour X was marked by a hedge. Except it wasn't that simple. Their garden is about 30 inches lower than ours and the hedge in question sat atop a soil bank that from our side was about 30 inches high and from hers was twice that.…
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