ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I probably spent longer in the garden today than I have since somewhere back in October. Searching out pictures for this six, potting lilies and hydrangea pruning being the bulk of it. The weather has turned around but even so, nothing happens quickly in January even if it isn't freezing. I found the requisite six…
Ten past seven on Friday evening and I think the weather has just made an about turn. An hour ago it was 0.3°C and now it has gone back up again to 1.9°C. First thing this morning I recorded -6.3°C, which for Cornwall is exceptionally cold. Hopefully the greenhouses stayed above zero and most things…
Arrrgh! This is getting difficult. There really isn't a lot happening out there right now. I wandered around this morning looking for inspiration and finding none. Could I scrape together six flowers, of absolutely anything at all, the real diehards? What about low life, mosses, lichens, a fern or two? Maybe I could take half…
A bright shiny new year, just like the last one. The weather is on the turn, from relentless wet to something different. Might even get some sun. it doesn't look like it's going to get very cold where I am, a degree or two below zero at the worst. Enough to put the brakes on…
Not a lot left of 2023. This gardening year is drawing to a close with a minimal amount of gardening going on. The sun came out for a while this morning (Friday) and I went out to chop a few things down. We've warnings for wind both tomorrow and Sunday, as well as lots more…
Winter equinox is now history, the days are getting longer, currently about a minute a day longer. I went out with my camera to look for positivity, signs of growth in the gloom. I'm very pleased to say that I found them, so, notwithstanding the fact that they are not at all photogenic, I picked…
Even when it hasn't been raining in the last couple of weeks, the light levels have been low and my attempts to produce a film snapshot have left me with hours of profoundly dull footage. The conceit that I hold to is that I have an all year round garden with at least a few…
It's been a couple of weeks since we had a frost that pretty much drew a line under the 2023 gardening year. I've done a bit of cutting down and tidying but it is still something of a soggy mess out there. I thought I'd seen the last of the autumn flowering Camellias, the open flowers…
I dragged myself out this morning and did a bit of gardening, then found myself this afternoon taking the glass off someone else's greenhouse to remove the moss balls and try to get it a bit more watertight. The frost last weekend saw off just about every remaining flower and though some of the Camellias…
I wonder what proportion of my SoS posts start off talking about the weather; most of them for sure. We probably just about hit zero Thursday night and by the time this post goes live at 7.30am, I shall know whether we hit the BBC's -4°C or the Met Offices' -2°C or neither of them.…
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