I was going to go and collect my onions from the allotment but it's just started raining. Today may not be the day I had planned. Tomorrow we're off down west to the rare Plant Fair at Tremenheere and a jolly round the Dahlia field at Varfell. I'm expecting it to be one of the highlights…
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Six on Saturday – 1/9/2018
I usually have to pretend I'm writing on a Saturday but not this week. A blizzard of a week, possibly; disorganised, certainly; bit of a sense of things slowing down, not so much changing from one week to the next, let's go with that. Six reflections on the colour red. One. I had a row of…
Six on Saturday – 25/8/2018
The weather is completely back to normal, a bit of this, a bit of that, nothing to remark on. Except that the effects of the hot spell are still playing out, with early flower here and renewed growth there, meaning that it doesn't quite feel normal. At least there is more colour about now, with…
Six on Saturday – 18/8/2018
I don't have lawn in my garden, so in theory I don't have the regular chore of mowing. However, since nothing's ever that simple, I do mow next door's, except he's now gone into a home and his mower has been given away so I had to do it with my strimmer. Then I went…
Six on Saturday – 11/8/2018
Oh it's definitely changed now. Needless to say we get fed up with rain far quicker than sun but it's good to have the pressure of endless watering and badly stressed plants lifted somewhat. Autumn seems to have arrived while summer still has a few weeks to run so with two seasons overlapping I had…
Six on Saturday – 4/8/2018
The sight of a bud emerging on Amaryllis belladonna two days ago was a bit of a shock, it's hard to see it as other than an early sign of autumn. Much of the summer flower palette has been battered by the heat and blown through too quickly. The flowers on my Heleniums are half the…
Six on Saturday -28/7/2018
Earlier in the week I blogged about the many and various plants that I grow in pots. I thought I'd zoom in on half a dozen for this week's six. We had a little rain overnight but it's sunny again now; much of what is in the ground looks jaded. One. Impatiens auricoma x bicaudata.…
Six on Saturday – 21/7/2018
I spent many years working on a retail nursery where plants exchanging hands for money was pretty much what life was all about. Times have changed and this week was a classic example of a rather different way of doing things. On Wednesday I was at Trewithen Garden for an away day organised by the…
Six on Saturday – 14/7/2018
Growing your own food is very satisfying, eating it even more so. When you can pile a plate with salad, accompanied by a baked spud, nine different crops in total and all harvested that day from your own garden or allotment, then follow it with blueberries and raspberries, well that is hard to beat. This is…
Six on Saturday – 7/7/2018
The hot weather continues and the ordeal of keeping everything watered with it. There's lots happening and I keep changing my mind about what to include and what to leave out. My first tomatoes made it to the plate but not into the six. I nearly included a clematis but changed my mind. Improbably I…
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