ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Our first opening for NGS was yesterday, the second is today. Just four hours each day, 1 till 5; yesterday it rained for 3 of them. Last year people had pre-booked so they had to be stoic, this year they mainly didn't come. Perhaps they'll come today instead. The time spent "getting ready" has not…
It was hotter than I like yesterday, today is much cooler, overcast with a possibility of rain and I'm quite happy about that. All winter we want it dryer and warmer, when it's dry and warm we want cool and wet. Sad. The mid-season change over is almost complete, all the Aquilegias and most of…
If ever a week slipped by without me noticing, it was the one just gone. Yesterday was pretty typical, Sue and I had agreed to be Stewards in the Flower Marquee at the the Royal Cornwall Show, 1-3pm. We knew the traffic would be terrible, and it was, so we set off around 10, which…
June already, there's not enough hours in the day or days in the week, to say nothing of energy in my body. The cottage garden look of flouncy self sown stuff continues, though the Aquilegias seem to have gone over quickly this year. The effect is briefly colourful and pretty but never tidy and it…
Our first opening of the summer is on 24th June, which is not very far away, and if I was looking for a single word to describe the state of the place at the moment it would be 'messy'. It never is a tightly controlled and manicured garden, but the informality level peaks around now…
Saturday morning and this blog post only half done. I came in from the garden at 9pm yesterday, did a bit, then went out slug foraging around 10pm when it was dark. I have Dahlias in the ground, trying to grow, and slugs trying to stop them. With my help, I hope the Dahlias will…
May is the month where it can all run away from you if you take your eye off the ball for a second. So much happening, so much needing doing. A lot of what needs doing is weeding and watering, which eats into the time you need for planting and preening. Quite a bit of…
Five years and one day ago, I responded to a suggestion by someone blogging under the tag 'The Propagator', to post about six things happening there and then in my garden. I went and had a look; sure enough, there were things happening, I took pictures of six of them and put my foot on…
Yesterday I noticed my second Dahlia emerging, and I'm talking of plants that were left in the ground for the winter. I'm not even freaking out about slugs as it's been so dry there are very few about. I'll still be doing night time forays to check but they'll be targeted five minute forays rather…
I'm off to Rosemoor garden again today, to the spring show. It kind of marks the end of the camellia season, so I've put a couple of mine in here. Spring bulbs are over their peak too and to an extent flower is being overtaken by greenery as the build up to summer begins. I'm…
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