ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
The last post for October and the clocks go back this weekend. It's also forecast to be a good deal cooler this weekend than it's been. So what, I say. This is Six on Saturday, there must be something going on out there. And so there is; flowers, fruits, successes and failures. Then there are…
Past the middle of October and the garden is getting scruffy but there's still plenty of flower and I'm certainly not at the stage of doing an autumnal clear up. Which is not to say I haven't made a start on some of the tasks on my winter check list. Anyhow, finding six things to…
Well, storm Amy came and went and we're all still here. Seems a long time ago. I don't know how other people in the UK fared but there was no significant damage done in our garden and the slow autumnal descent into chaos continues at a very leisurely pace. There are lots of flowers still,…
It's Friday and I'm not going out to take any more pictures today. Hopefully I have enough in the can to put together a Saturday Six without an excess of repetition or deviation. There may be a bit of hesitation though. I've said it before but I'll say it again, Six on Saturday is a…
That great British conversation opener, grumbling about the weather, has been denied to me this week. Nothing to complain about. A good deal of the week has seen me in Sue's glasshouse, trying to get firmly on top of mealy bug before winter. I'm just washing it off with a pump up sprayer set to…
In spite of a week of ropey weather I have spent much of this week in the garden or on my allotment. The garden might be winding down but the workload isn't. Much of it revolves around tidying things up or putting them under cover for winter but I have also been sowing seeds and…
I just spent a lovely day visiting a couple of gardens down in west Cornwall. The National Garden Scheme people were putting on a do at one garden and we visited another while in the area. I just looked up the route on Google maps, 53 miles, going from well inside the east end of…
And then it was September. Where did August go, surely it had only just arrived. Not a lot of gardening has been done because not a lot has been possible. Summer is gone, there has been plentiful rain, my water storage is full and parts of the garden are slowly mouldering back into the ground.…
There have been early signs of autumn for the last couple of weeks, easy enough to ignore for those so minded. That changed on Wednesday with the arrival of the remains of hurricane Erin, even though it never came very close to the UK. We've had rain, quite a bit, and I've been scurrying about…
There's no escaping the fact that midsummer is well behind us and the days are getting shorter. Our garden openings are behind us, or so we thought before we were asked if we would have a small group, just four, round on Monday. The forecast for the weekend is warm, sunny and windy, not the…
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