ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I spent a good deal of yesterday carrying on the clean up after storm Eunice a week ago, mercifully in someone else's garden, not my own. Looking carefully around the other trees in her garden I spotted signs of heave around another big tree, leaning towards and well within reach of her neighbour's house. It'll…
Actually I was thinking of the song by Billy Holiday which is Gloomy Sunday. There is a song called Gloomy Monday but it's quite cheerful by comparison. I don’t know if there is an official midwinter point for the UK but from a gardening point of view it would perhaps fall close to the end…
It's not getting any easier to find things to include in a six. The dregs of the current season and the early stirrings of the coming season generally overlap to some extent in Cornwall. To a lesser extent than usual this year I think, with rain, hail and gales having seen off virtually all the…
The RHS Rhododendron, Camellia and Magnolia Group have, like everyone else, been largely unable for the past couple of seasons to have any sort of events programme. It was suggested that members post videos of their own gardens for other members to watch and enjoy. I did a couple last year and with our cycle…
I have a garden full of plants and I’m forever taking pictures of them. They get dumped onto the computer in folders with the date of their dumping to identify them. Eventually I go through them and delete the ones I don’t want.Looking back through photos I took a year ago I don’t always know…
Wednesday at 2pm was the appointed time. It came and went without anyone appearing, which was a little unsettling. We had signed up to open our garden for the National Garden Scheme, persuaded by the local organizers who were keen to add some smaller and perhaps more relatable gardens to their local offer. Small gardens…
It's a dull old day, drizzle, heavy cloud cover. Getting late in the year too, so the sun isn't very strong even when it's shining. On a positive note, my Camellia sasanqua 'Navajo' is starting to flower; I'd better get some pictures of it, I only have 171 already, I must need some more. In…
I put off using the WordPress block editor for as long as I could but eventually decided to jump in. There's a block called image compare which I've been playing with. It's nifty stuff but you really need to get two pictures taken from the exact same spot and with the same camera setup. That's…
It'll be a familiar tale. A part of the garden that has passed its sell by date, not a lot happening, not visited much and then only to get somewhere else. Chances are it's dominated by evergreen shrubs that have been getting steadily bigger, casting too much shade, squeezing out the smaller plants. Tackling it…
I just replaced the wooden decking at the back of our house. I have been putting it off for a while, partly from a conviction that it would last a little longer and that a few dodgy patches were not grounds to replace the lot. I have also considered replacing it with a different type…
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