I always collect quite a lot of seed from plants around the garden and have already started to do so this year. Some I need to collect because they are short lived plants that have to be grown anew from seed, some are interesting plants that I perhaps fancy having more of or want to…
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If you go down to the woods today..
Somewhere in the hidden recesses of my memory is something about William Robinson and the need for every gardener to set aside an acre or so of their garden for woodland. I have tried, but with a garden of around one eighth of an acre in total, I have failed. My woodland consists of the…
Six on Saturday – 8/2/2020
I'm sure the last forecast I saw yesterday was giving a minimum of 5°C and a southerly breeze. I wasn't expecting to find frost this morning. Nothing severe, fortunately. Having had a fairly busy week, I didn't do a thing about this six until this morning. Good thing it isn't raining. So, six on Saturday,…
Six on Saturday – 2/11/2019
It's absolutely sluicing it down just now, as it has been for several hours. The wind has dropped a bit though. Good thing I did my pictures yesterday when it was only drizzling. One. Camellia yunnanensis. I went down to Trelissick on Thursday to a meeting about a study day on Camellias that I'm going…
Six on Saturday – 3/11/2018
Well, that was a week that was. The thermometer hit -3°C on Monday night. My Dahlias were blackened, top to bottom, just like it says in the books. In ten years or more of growing Dahlias, it's the first time I've cut them down after they've been frosted. In previous years I've just picked a…
Drawing a simple garden plan.
I suppose in this day and age I should be doing a You Tube video, but I’m too old for that. Many of us want a reasonably accurate map of our gardens and end up with something that falls short. Here is a fairly simple method which will produce quite an accurate map. You will…
Six on Saturday – 16/12/2017
We're running at around 32°C by day and 20°C by night. Can't believe we've been here a week. Our host's garden is a modest affair, as are most gardens in the very many new housing developments hereabouts. All the houses are single storey, so have a big footprint, not leaving a lot of room for…
Six on Saturday – 2/12/2017
I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm having to pretend it's winter down here in rainy Cornwall, but while there has been frost on the car a couple of times, we've had nothing to do any damage. There are odds and ends of flowers everywhere, but mostly bedraggled and looking sorry for themselves. So…
Six on Saturday – 7/10/2017
I worked out that after this week I only need to find another 72 things to get me to the end of the year. Creativity will be needed. Perhaps the cat will have to count in a future post. One. Malus domestica 'Holstein'. I nearly included this last week, chose not to. Decided to…
The modern world.
On 14 June I was down at Glendurgan Garden and saw a plant which I didn’t recognise and which didn’t have a label. I photographed it and posted a tweet asking Glendurgan what it was. They came back with Aristea major as a name. I Googled that, found a seed supplier who had it and…
