ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Once again, I'm scheduling this post and going out for the day. Rosemoor garden is hosting the RHS National Rhododendron show, with a late Camellia competition thrown in. The weather forecast isn't great, so I probably wouldn't have got a lot done in the garden but there is plenty needing doing. It feels like it's…
It has served me well thus far in my life to keep my head down and generally pass unnoticed. Quite why I am heading off to Kent this weekend to lead a camellia study tour is something of a mystery to me. I just want to be quietly pottering about in my own garden really.…
What a difference a bit of sunshine makes, to both the gardener and the garden. We've had quite low temperatures at night this week but no frost, and there's a sense that the garden is going through the phases, Scillas and crocus finished flowering, now leafy; tulips, primroses, Erythroniums, Muscari taking their turn. Things are…
Since my host post has to go out bright and early on a Saturday morning, it usually gets written on Friday. This time it's Thursday, tomorrow sees me at the Cornwall Garden Society Show in the afternoon, followed by a talk to St Breward garden club in the evening. With a weather warning for gales…
It's been a bit warmer down here this week but any gain in bringing things on quicker has been offset by wind and rain. My garden is pretty open and strong wind is never welcome. Earlier in the week I had enough Camellias looking good to be motivated to write a piece about them on…
It's turned wet, hour after hour of drizzly rain, so not enough to fill Colliford Reservoir and get the threat of water restrictions lifted, but enough to keep this gardener indoors most of the week. On the whole, the garden is happy with it, though I'm seeing a lot of slugs and expect them to…
I'm at RHS Rosemoor today, immersed in Camellia matters. They have their Spring Flower Show, which includes the RHS Early Camellia Competition. Down in our corner of the country, conditions have been passable for getting blooms in good condition, I'm not so sure that those from further afield will have had an easy time. In…
Looks like it's going cold from the diagonally opposite corner of the country, moving this way but maybe not quite making it. Things are well enough under way to be worried about new growth getting clobbered, a routine, happens every year kind of worry. Six things in the garden on a Saturday, posted for the…
I rushed around on Thursday to get a few pictures, frost having been forecast that night. I've been out all day today (Friday) do haven't had a look to see if any damage was done. It's a two steps forward, one step back time of year. Hopefully for most of you out there it's two…
The upward curve continues, I have sown my first veg seeds and things are shooting out all over the place. The things I put into a six a week or two back with one half open flower are now in full flow. I have options. Six things happening on a drizzly Saturday, no worries. One.I'm…
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