ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Oh my, what perfect gardening weather, I'm knackered. Finding six things wasn't a problem though, it's all happening. One. With a strong sense of not having a clue what I was doing, I pruned my 'Victoria' plum tree. Shortened all of last year's shoots to a couple of sideshoots and thinned it out some. There…
I suppose it had to happen. I've included a camellia in quite a few sixes and on a couple of occasions have indulged myself and gone with two. I wouldn't say it's the best year I've ever had for them but I do have several particularly good ones flowering just now so I'm going to…
It hasn't been a good week for gardening. Let's just leave it at that and move on. I'm off to Rosemoor today for the RHS Early Camellia Show. Glad I'm not competing, it's going to be very hard to find undamaged blooms. Bit like that finding six things for this, for starters I didn't really…
This week has been a bit cooler and I might have expected the precocious spring to be put on hold. Not a bit of it, buds are swelling, in some cases breaking and there's a sense that we're into the growing season proper, leaving behind the usual early performers. One. Scilla luciliae. These are spreading…
First thing in the morning our garden is entirely in shade, one of the reasons I usually take the pictures for my SoS on Friday. I was elsewhere, it didn't happen, so my pictures were taken in shade after a wet and windy night. There's worse to come tomorrow and Monday, much worse. One. Narcissus…
I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time looking at other people's Camellias for one reason or another. It seemed about time I focussed on my own. Don't ask me how many I have, I don't have a clue. There are several planted in the garden, more that I have had growing in pots…
The weather is behaving like April and my head is still in January. I hadn't cranked up my slug vigilance, which cost me a pot of lettuce seedlings this week, and I'm struggling to remember to keep checking what needs watering. Yesterday evening saw the first torchlight slug patrol of the year; the other side sustained…
