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.…
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…
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.…
It's a beautiful sunny day in Cornwall this morning. The garden beckons, chaos needs sorting. I popped out to see if there were shots to add to what I'd taken earlier but it's hopeless trying to take photos when the sun is so bright. Six things happening now in my garden, joining The Propagator and…
