ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
We woke to light rain this morning, which lasted long enough to lay the dust. Might freshen things up a bit I suppose. I'm doing a themed six this week, reflecting on fillers, the plants shoved in to fill gaps left by the demise of the early stuff. One.Zinnias. I only grew these because someone…
I'm regarding the coming few days with trepidation, as I'm sure many of you will be. I will be moving potted plants into shade or putting shade up where they are. We still have stored water at the moment but it's running low. At least it looks like it will be a short spell down…
We're set fair to get two good days, weather-wise, for our two afternoon openings this weekend. I'm not a great fan of hot weather, which for me means anything over 25°C. We make life difficult for ourselves by growing so many plants in pots but in spite of regularly resolving to cut the numbers down…
We've been to three garden centres this week and in all of them there seemed to be surplus bedding plants by the truckload. It would not be a surprise to hear that plant sales have been down this year but if they are it is not for lack of trying on my part. In spite…
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…
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