ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Another drab winters day here but a bit less cold than it's been. By the end of next week something might have changed out there but right now there's no discernible difference from a week ago. I seem to have this notion in my head that for something to be "happening" it must have progressed…
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…
Thursday night was proper cold, a real shame because there are a few more Camellias starting to flower now and it has toasted them. Fortunately I took a few pictures on Thursday afternoon, having seen the forecast. It's what would have been happening Saturday had the weather been kinder. One.Camellia grijsii. As in many plant…
It was a beautiful day yesterday once it had warmed up a bit. Perfect gardening weather. What was I doing? I was clearing out the attic. All that junk I arrived with 30 odd years ago; a car load went to the dump this morning, there's a lot more still to go. If there'd been…
We had one frosty night this week, then the rain rolled in again. It blackened some hydrangea leaves and Hedychium 'Tara' is looking less chipper, though still standing. As far as things happening, there really isn't anything new, what I put in last week is still true and this week's six could have been done…
I was chatting over the gate with another plot-holder on my allotment this morning; he was telling me about rebuilding his compost bays, I was telling him about getting rid of mine for good a year ago. We agreed that it is good soil that grows decent crops, not a tidy plot. At least we…
I imagine I'm not alone in putting my Saturday sixes together on the Friday, an arrangement that means this was written in one year to be published in the next. A 50:50 split between looking back and looking forward suggests itself but is not what's on offer. It hasn't been a great year so looking…
I've actually spent a bit of time in the garden this week, partly tidying up, partly starting on my quite lengthy list of things that need doing in winter. It looks like the weather is set to turn wet again next week so I should probably keep at it over the weekend. The sun is…
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…
Not a lot of gardening here this week, to cold, too wet, too windy. So bad have things got that I started a jigsaw puzzle yesterday and since it was a 1000 piece leaf montage, I nearly included it in this six. That would have been desperation indeed. As it is, there are two pictures…
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