ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Last week Chris in Canada featured six veggies and I all but promised him I'd do the same this week. Sorry Chris, I'll do a separate blog on my veg plot, there's too much going on here in the garden. One. Fuchsia of the week just had to be 'Vera Garcia'. Sid Garcia used to…
There's too much going on, I've taken photos of at least a dozen things and what makes the cut is pretty much random. I think maybe I'll do another blog on fillers, the plants that get added as the season progresses to plug gaps. That way I can perhaps whittle this lot down to six.…
I've rarely been so pleased to have rain; a good drop too, enough to fill the water tanks and give the garden a good watering. Knowing it was coming on Friday, my usual day for taking SoS pictures, I had decided on Wednesday that I would focus on the things we grow in pots and…
It's a few weeks since we last had significant rain so the garden is caught between full summer flowery blowsiness and dusty tiredness. Watering accounts for the lion's share of gardening activity, though I need to pick blackcurrants and that will eat up a few hours. One. Habranthus brachyandrus. I bought a little pot of…
Cloud moved in at 3pm yesterday, bringing to an end almost two days of temperatures in the mid to high twenties which, accompanied as it had been by a strong and gusty wind, was getting a bit trying. To those of you for whom 25°C is barely warm and who are accustomed to months of…
It's a beautiful sunny day in Cornwall this morning. The garden beckons, chaos needs sorting. I popped out to see if there were shots to add to what I'd taken earlier but it's hopeless trying to take photos when the sun is so bright. Six things happening now in my garden, joining The Propagator and…
I planted out a group of six Tagetes 'Cinnabar'; the slugs have left only the ragged stems of three and haven't touched the others. Which about sums up the garden at the moment, some things are loving an abundance of moisture and cooler temperatures, others are hating it. I'm not one for dwelling on the…
Getting pictures yesterday for todays post wasn't a runner, it rained pretty relentlessly all day. My water tank is full, to look on the bright side. So I went out early(ish) this morning with my camera. Not a good time of day for taking pictures here, too many areas in shadow and the light rather…
Another full on week down here, I'm exhausted. Next week will be worse, the scrappy hedge between us and one of our neighbours is going, to be replaced by a fence. It all has to go through our garden because they have no front to back access other than through their house. A couple of tons…
It's that time of year when the chaos seems to build week on week. Everything is growing like mad which means seeds are sown, pricked off, potted up, potted on; pot plants get potted on, cuttings potted up, glasshouses emptied out, more plants bought, potted. It's not like there was any spare space to start…
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