So impressed was I with the Hardy Plant Society's plant sale in Truro last weekend that I have now joined the Hardy Plant Society. Who knows, by next year I might be back there as a seller. I nearly added "rather than a buyer" but I bet most of the sellers spend as much on other…
six on saturday
Six on Saturday – 5/5/2018
It's one day shy of a year since I did my first SoS post. My first item then is my first item now, with the next two items also having featured before. The next three are new. It's inevitable as the season starts round again that repetition will occur and it will be interesting to…
Six on Saturday – 28/4/2018
Ah the joys of retirement. I've enjoyed a full week of gardening this week, a bit like being at work. I had three fairly major things I wanted to get done. First was to lift some Camellias from my allotment and pot them before it was too late to do it. Done, 13 in all.…
Six on Saturday – 21/4/2018
Not sure how it happened, but this is my 50th Six on Saturday post. 300 "things", most of them plants. This weeks six is not the one where I shoot off in a different direction, not when we have some decent weather and flowers and shoots bursting out all over. I love a bit of warm sunny…
Six on Saturday – 14/4/2018
Back after a week out. Last week I was "up country", sampling the delights of the M25 and M3. I was judging camellias at the RHS show at Savill Garden; now that is a lovely garden, and I managed to spend all of Friday at Wisley, a garden that seems a little less to do…
Six on Saturday 31/3/2018
A week ago it seemed like the garden was poised for action, just waiting for the moment when winter shifted to spring. But someone hit the pause button and it all looks much the same. I found half a dozen things to mention, worthy or not. One. Camellia of the week is one I raised from seed…
Six on Saturday – 24/3/2018
Has to be said that when I opened the cupboard of horticultural delights for this SoS it was looking pretty bare. It's a good thing that hopes, dreams and disasters are admissible because that's what's on offer from me this week. I'm counting on everybody else's contributions, linked from The Propagator, for an uplift. One. Cuttings;…
Six on Saturday – 17/3/2018
Here we go again, six on saturday under the cosh of the weather; imminent rather than recent. Checking heaters and moving things about is the order of the day. One. Camellia ‘Annette Carol’. This has long been one of my absolute favourites.. I cut the bush in my garden down last year so it only…
Six on Saturday – 10/3/2018
I have nothing further to say about last week. I'm moving on, as is my garden. So, six things scraped together from the wreckage for my contribution to The Propagator's Six on Saturday meme. The non-UK contributors are going to have to do the heavy lifting this week methinks. One. I wonder how many weeks…
Six on Saturday – 3/3/2018
Snow is rare enough in Cornwall but temperatures of -4°C by day are pretty much unheard of. There will be a price exacted for growing plants that are at the border of hardiness, though what that price will be will not become clear for a while. Some things look dead and are, some look dead but…
garden ruminations 