ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Brrr! I'm not keen on this. Sue's the sensible one, on her way to Australia. I've had a full-on Camellia week; Leonardslee and Nymans gardens on Monday, looking at camellias. Tuesday I was taking part in a round table review of AGM's (Award of Garden Merit) for autumn flowering camellias at Wisley. Wednesday evening I…
Into December, meteorological winter and actual, frost on the ground winter. I don't know what we will get, temperature forecasts are never very reliable and while there's not much to choose between 30°C and 34°C, there is a world of difference between -2°C and +2°C. Plants in the garden have had it cushy of late,…
The wine it was drunk, the ship it was sunk,The shot it was dead, all the sorrows were drowned.The birds they were clouds, the brides and the shroudsAnd as we drew south the mist it came down. Late November. Sandy Denny. Ah, they don't make 'em like that any more. A fragment of the soundtrack…
There's a demon out there, lounging atop his fluffy white cloud, watching and waiting. I walk out the door, he turns on the tap; I go back in, he turns it off again. Do I thwart his childish games by donning waterproofs and staying out, or by staying in until he gets bored and goes…
I really thought I was going to struggle to find six things this week but the wind dropped a couple of days back, the rain is having a few days off and the temperatures are absurd for the time of year, so a lot of plants are just keeping on going. My Dahlias have been…
This is my third week of hosting six on saturday and I think I've just about got the hang of it. The scheduling thing has tripped me up, and the Twitter link worked one week but not the other. I apologise if anything strange has happened at your end, this week I'm hoping to get…
The Propagator, who started this meme back in May 2017, wrote a participant guide in September 2017. It's still on his website, here, but I thought I would duplicate it on this site in case you've landed here since he handed the reins to me and perhaps don't even know that he was Mr Six…
Last weekend almost went according to plan. Just a small matter of failing to realise the significance of UTC+0, meaning it didn't automatically publish at 7:30am but was manually published at 7:35am instead. I'm off to Rosemoor today, for the AGM of the RHS RCM Group. Don't even bother to work it out, it doesn't…
Just another week? Well no, everything has changed, yet nothing has changed. I post my post, same as I always do, but the comments section assumes a level of significance it hasn't had before. I hope everything is set up as it should be, if it isn't I hope it doesn't prevent you from letting…
At the beginning of the week the forecast was predicting terrible weather for this weekend but here at least it hasn't materialised yet. All a bit benign, allowing things to carry on going through their paces and putting off big collapses followed by big clean ups for a while longer. It'll happen soon enough, in…
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