ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
The only conspicuous casualty in my garden this summer was Berberis 'Golden Torch'. In spring and early summer it had grown very well, quickly covering up the wire ties I had used to try to achieve a tidier column and create a smaller scale echo of the big fastigiate Yew. In July a few dead…
The temperature dropped to -2°C overnight, -3.5°C the night before and -4°C the night before that. That's pretty cold for Cornwall and is what happens when you get a an easterly or north easterly air flow, low wind speeds and clear skies at this time of year. From all other directions the wind would be…
I've been using Melcourt Sylvagrow for a good few years. I was using it as a professional grower for several years before I retired in 2014 and I've been using it at home, pretty much to the exclusion of anything else, ever since. It's a peat free growing medium based on composted wood waste and…
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It's been a dry week and I should have done lots of gardening but I haven't. There are a few minor things happening but I thought they'd keep for another week. Instead I've set myself a small challenge, to come up with six different takes on the same thing. It seemed like a good idea…
Earlier in the week I blogged about the many and various plants that I grow in pots. I thought I'd zoom in on half a dozen for this week's six. We had a little rain overnight but it's sunny again now; much of what is in the ground looks jaded. One. Impatiens auricoma x bicaudata.…
Back in my nursery days one question more than most made me pause to collect my thoughts before answering. What can I grow in a pot? They were surrounded by about 100,000 plants in perhaps 3500 varieties, all in pots. What I have come to realise is that for at least some of those people…
You can't say it's not topical. I just potted on some of my tomatoes from 10 litre pots into 20’s. I should probably have done all of them, but I thought if I did alternate plants, then stopped the ones in the smaller pots while letting the others grow on, it should even itself out.…
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