I've been trying to get to grips with the video editing side of Adobe Elements. I've use Photoshop Elements for picture editing for many years and through several versions of the program but only on my recent update of it did I plump for the video version as part of the package. Like the picture…
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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…
Feel-good flowers
They put a smile on my face so maybe you'll enjoy them too. All things flowering in my garden today.
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,…
New decade, new day
There are odds and ends of things flowering in the garden. Some are in their normal flowering season, most are aberrations, an odd very late or very early bloom, usually very tatty. I'd hoped for Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' but it wasn't to be. There are buds still but they're not opening. Makes you wonder what…
The garden in winter.
Keeping a garden interesting gets more difficult as autumn slips into winter. The climate here is not warm enough to have nearly as wide a choice of material for winter display as for summer, nor is it cold enough to force me to shut up shop altogether. I have a choice, I can give up…
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…
Cyclamen, some notes on raising hardy species from seed.
At the beginning of August I collected seed from the pods of Cyclamen hederifolium and coum in my garden and Cyclamen repandum in another garden. The pods were ripening and beginning to split open and I collected both open pods and those just about to open. I space sowed two full sized seed trays with…
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Flowery
It’s not uncommon to hear gardeners lamenting the lack of colour in their garden towards the end of summer. I’m quite pleased at how much colour I have still and confidently expect it to carry on for some time yet. Let me set out my approach and the principles I follow. Parks departments, and to…
Dahlias from seed
I have been growing Dahlias in the garden for years, plants that I have purchased from various places. In 2015, not on top of my dead heading, I picked off a couple of dead flowers from the varety ‘Orange Cushion’ and realised that they contained good looking seed. In the spring of 2016 I sowed…
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