ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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…
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…
