ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I had a bit of a tidy up in my greenhouse, sorting out my yound plants of Begonia 'Torsa'. Collected a lot of bulbils. Then I went round the plants of it I have in the garden and collected some more. I ended up with quite a lot, 473 to be precise. Growild Nursery had…
As if at this time next year it's going to pop up again and remind me. A month or six weeks ago the first of my left in the ground Dahlias started to appear. They were all left in the ground, the only ones in pots were a couple I'd bought as bare tubers. I'd…
It seems that this is the year it must happen. The oldest plant in our garden is an Acer palmatum ‘Atropurpureum’ that was a young plant just a couple of feet tall when we moved in over thirty years ago. I know it’s the oldest because it is the only plant still left that was…
Back in November I noticed fruits on Fuchsia glazioviana growing in the garden. This is a quite small grower with often good leaf colour so well worth growing. I wondered if it had picked up pollen from something interesting, so I picked a few fruits, extracted the seeds and sowed them. They germinated very quickly…
A week ago, I went to Barracott Plants on a plant hunting expedition, coming home with enough goodies to write a blog about, which I duly did. Trouble was , a couple of things I'd been wanting I was unable to find and the nursery owner was away so I was advised to come back.…
You know how it goes; you go to a garden, Rosemoor in this instance and see a plant you simply must have, Polygonatum x hybridum 'Betburg' on this outing. You get home and look at the RHS website to see who is listing it; excellent, a nursery quite close by, Barracott Plants, at Gunnislake. Thought…
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