ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Nearly the end of June, high summer. I'm more or less into a ticking over phase, everything is planted and growing, it just needs watering and tying and tweaking to give of its best. It looks like we're due a short lived burst of heat, peaking on Monday at about 26C. Six items of interest…
One more hot day and then it cools down. I'm not a heat lover, 21°C is about my ideal; today's 27°C was something of a slog. Gardening as an active pursuit goes on, we've three more openings, two days each time, the next on 3/4th July. Changes need to be made soon after an opening…
On Friday and Saturday we opened our garden under the National Gardens Scheme. I wanted to do a snapshot of how it looked for our visitors so I attempted to walk most of the paths in the garden in both directions, filming as I went, but to do so in one continuous take. It's a…
Friday evening, still raining, as it has since about 1pm. Three couples braved the weather and visited the garden, three more than we had expected. Tomorrow should be better. Our antipodean visitors move on to London tomorrow, taking Sue with them, so it's going to seem very quiet. Between last minute tidying up and having…
Flaming June! Huh! We have family over from Australia and while we were never going to compete with their weather, we could have done without the demo of a proper Cornish summer. The garden is loving it, though the marauding molluscs are having a ball. There have been many fatalities and there will be many…
We're just about to move into meteorological summer so I suppose if you don't have six things happening in your garden now then the only reason you're reading this is for the vicarious pleasure of seeing pictures from gardens that do. Or you're a long way down in the southern hemisphere maybe. The name of…
I was finally paying attention today when the sun reached the point it was running directly down the side of the house, i.e. at a right angle to the front wall. Bang on noon. Any plant close to that line of shadow suddenly finds itself in the full glare of midday sun. If we were…
The house painting is finished but the scaffolding is still up, so while the chaos has receded a little, we are far from back to normal. It looks like we have another week of sunny weather before a possible breakdown so everything is growing like mad, good for the build up to opening the garden…
We have a man painting the house, so scaffolding up and everything near to the house moved away. It's chaos, and I don't cope well with chaos not of my making. A week ago we had a fortnight of good weather in prospect; that's now changed and I'm dreading the painting job getting drawn out…
Just another week? Well not quite. On May 6th 2017 this post appeared on The Propagator, a blog I'd been following for a while. Scroll down to the comments section and you will see that I rose to the bait of a proposed new meme even in that very first week, posting an opening six…
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