ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Into December, meteorological winter and actual, frost on the ground winter. I don't know what we will get, temperature forecasts are never very reliable and while there's not much to choose between 30°C and 34°C, there is a world of difference between -2°C and +2°C. Plants in the garden have had it cushy of late,…
The wine it was drunk, the ship it was sunk,The shot it was dead, all the sorrows were drowned.The birds they were clouds, the brides and the shroudsAnd as we drew south the mist it came down. Late November. Sandy Denny. Ah, they don't make 'em like that any more. A fragment of the soundtrack…
There's a demon out there, lounging atop his fluffy white cloud, watching and waiting. I walk out the door, he turns on the tap; I go back in, he turns it off again. Do I thwart his childish games by donning waterproofs and staying out, or by staying in until he gets bored and goes…
I had a bit of a tidy up in my greenhouse, sorting out my yound plants of Begonia 'Torsa'. Collected a lot of bulbils. Then I went round the plants of it I have in the garden and collected some more. I ended up with quite a lot, 473 to be precise. Growild Nursery had…
The November edition of the television programme that I mentioned two months ago has now gone up on the Cornwall Stress Free Television Vimeo channel, where I brave the weather to tell you a bit about what is happening in my garden in autumn. https://vimeo.com/770689446
I really thought I was going to struggle to find six things this week but the wind dropped a couple of days back, the rain is having a few days off and the temperatures are absurd for the time of year, so a lot of plants are just keeping on going. My Dahlias have been…
Begonia 'Garden Angel Blush' 2nd July 2022 This is undoubtedly a contender for best performing plant in my garden this year. I put it into a "Six on Saturday" post on 11th June, noting that it was shaping up well, and now, on 6th November, it is still looking good, if a little windswept by…
This is my third week of hosting six on saturday and I think I've just about got the hang of it. The scheduling thing has tripped me up, and the Twitter link worked one week but not the other. I apologise if anything strange has happened at your end, this week I'm hoping to get…
The Propagator, who started this meme back in May 2017, wrote a participant guide in September 2017. It's still on his website, here, but I thought I would duplicate it on this site in case you've landed here since he handed the reins to me and perhaps don't even know that he was Mr Six…
The only conspicuous casualty in my garden this summer was Berberis 'Golden Torch'. In spring and early summer it had grown very well, quickly covering up the wire ties I had used to try to achieve a tidier column and create a smaller scale echo of the big fastigiate Yew. In July a few dead…
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