ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
We had one frosty night this week, then the rain rolled in again. It blackened some hydrangea leaves and Hedychium 'Tara' is looking less chipper, though still standing. As far as things happening, there really isn't anything new, what I put in last week is still true and this week's six could have been done…
I imagine I'm not alone in putting my Saturday sixes together on the Friday, an arrangement that means this was written in one year to be published in the next. A 50:50 split between looking back and looking forward suggests itself but is not what's on offer. It hasn't been a great year so looking…
I've actually spent a bit of time in the garden this week, partly tidying up, partly starting on my quite lengthy list of things that need doing in winter. It looks like the weather is set to turn wet again next week so I should probably keep at it over the weekend. The sun is…
Not a lot of gardening here this week, to cold, too wet, too windy. So bad have things got that I started a jigsaw puzzle yesterday and since it was a 1000 piece leaf montage, I nearly included it in this six. That would have been desperation indeed. As it is, there are two pictures…
Windy, is what it is. Yesterday afternoon my big sister got cut off FB messenger by a power cut, she's in NE Scotland under a red warning for wind. I don't like wind.Six things in the garden right now only interests me if I can see it from indoors. Most of these are from yesterday…
There was a time I might have played "Late November" half a dozen times back to back; that's Sandy Denny for you youngsters. 1971, on vinyl, which I still have. Where the hell did that go! The time, not the record. Her song, "Who knows where the time goes?" is even older, 1969. Unhalfbricking, great…
I don't seem to be spending much time in the garden at the moment, I'm very much in a phase of planning changes then making the excuse that I want to think about it before committing. I have pages of notes, a lot of them contradictory, where I've changed my mind, or duplicated, where I've…
Deeper into autumn and it's getting trickier. Camellia sasanqua is just starting, so that helps. We've yet to have a frost, which is just as well since there's a lot of stuff still outside that shouldn't be. I was admiring someone's toasted Impatiens yesterday, just a couple of miles away but at lower altitude, so…
The rain gauge yesterday morning had accumulated 52.5mm in the prior 24hrs and it was a very soggy garden that I wandered round, looking for survivors to include here. There was more than I expected; the usual mix at this time of year of late performers and earlier performers just hanging in with a last…
The rain and wind on Wednesday night laid to rest any lingering thoughts of summer. I was out in it on Wednesday evening and it was truly vile. By Thursday morning the rain had blown through but the roads were strewn with leaves and twigs. The garden looked like it had taken something of a…
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