ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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…
It's all still growing! The garden is becoming impenetrable, the paths disappearing under lush vegetation. Will it get stopped abruptly by cold or storm, or collapse under its own soggy weight? I'm tidying the bits that have really had it, but so far that's not much. The glasshouse tomatoes copped it yesterday but those in…
October, and the summer heatwave is a distant memory. Not that it's really cold and so far the garden is holding up well; he says as the rain comes down and the wind builds. No more than a fleeting shower in a breeze, by the standard set by Florida this week. Why we in this…
Here we go again, six on Saturday episode 280. Things just keep on happening in this garden of mine, which is just as well, that being the point of The Propagator's excellent Saturday soiree. One.Amaryllis belladonna. Again; not quite a repeat of last week as it's a different clump of them, in the back garden…
Even though the weather has returned to normal the fallout from the dryness and hot spell is still playing out. Some things are growing like it's spring; ferns that had shrivelled and gone dormant are greening up, Fuchsias are making new growth and flowering profusely, Corydalis flexuosa is re-emerging in fresh greenery. Winter may be…
Last weekend we went down to the plant fair at Tremenheere, which netted me Begonia koelzii. On the way back we called in at Trevenna Cross Nursery where I found a reasonable plant of Begonia 'Garden Angel Silver'. There were other purchases, mostly for Sue. I came home significantly poorer. Since then it seems mostly…
The switch from summer to autumn happened rather abruptly but since summer ended in blazing heat and parched soil, there is a sense in which autumn represents an upturn in the garden's fortunes rather than the beginning of a steady decline. A lot of things have perked up greatly and late flowerers like Fuchsias and…
Four hot days and a thunderstorm, the new normal for an English summer perhaps, except that in these fast changing times, the very idea of normal has largely gone out of the window. What lies ahead is varying degrees of abnormal. In any event, Sunday was a sizzler and Monday the thunder rumbled around for…
I thought to do a six consisting of three watering cans, a hose, a hose nozzle and water butt. It just isn't a situation to make light of though, so I'll stick with plants, some of the survivors. One.Dahlia 'Karma Choc' is a plant I find all but impossible to photograph satisfactorily. It must register…
Our last garden opening is next weekend, so we have been making an effort to keep things alive and at least most of it presentable. Once that's out of the way, unless we get substantial rain, it's decline will be rapid. The money we've taken on plant sales might just about cover the extra on…
