ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Six things in the garden is it? You're 'avin' a laugh guv. Rain, x 6. I usually take the pictures for my sixes on Friday, not a chance yesterday, solid rain from dawn 'til dusk, plus a few hours on either side. Today is very different, the sun is shining, the sky is blue. I…
The land on which we live and garden used to be a farm until our estate was built on it some 45 years ago. At least in part the layout seems to have been informed by the field boundaries and our garden is bounded on two sides by what is left of the Cornish hedge…
Yesterday wasn't much of a day for scurrying out between showers to see if anything was happening. Not a lot if truth be told, so I've had to be a bit creative. It's a lot easier for me than many I know and I'm always impressed that so many people find something going on even…
I've hardly been out in the garden this week. It's been cold, often wet and the ground is sodden. I lifted a couple of Begonias and potted them up. They'll go back out in spring and be months ahead of where they'd be if left in the ground. Did a bit of tidying up and…
I've grown Amaryllis belladonna in the garden for many years. Some years they are spectacular, some they barely flower at all. Maybe our climate is on the edge of what they like and only a particularly hot year suits them, maybe I just let too much else grow up around them and shade them. What…
Lordy, where did that month go? It's deep into the time of preparing for next season, this one being dead and gone. I've been planting, digging up and potting, moving and chucking out. I write myself lists, the current one still has less things done than not.It being the weird year it is, on Tuesday…
It's been a dreary old week where very little gardening has been done. I did manage to get up to Mt Edgcumbe and Antony House on Thursday, trying to identify a recalcitrant Camellia or two, with limited success. At least I was outdoors and away from the house, which feels the more liberating for being…
When I removed the tunnel from the garden it was because it was a bit of a blot on the landscape. Sue and I have always acknowledged as much but it was just so useful that we were prepared to put up with it. Like much else, that all changed when we started to seriously…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 4 – 18/11/2020
We popped out to a garden centre and a nursery yesterday just for a mooch around. Came away with a tree stake and one Cyclamen between them. Neither seemed to have much stock. Since both produce a lot of their own plants I thought the end of the growing season would be a good time…
Three weeks ago I had completed the stonework to face my side of the bank between us and our neighbours. The bank however, is only 70cm high on our side so provided no privacy now that the hedge on top had been removed. Last year the next neighbour along had replaced the bank between us…
Continue reading ➞ The top corner project – part 3 – 9/11/2020
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