It's over a month since I did my Spielberg thing so I've been out with the iPhone again, trying to capture the essence of the garden as it is now. Mostly I filmed it yesterday, with grey skies and a blustery wind. Today the grey skies and blustery wind were joined by rain. An ambient…
Six on Saturday – 1/8/2020
Summer holiday season in Cornwall is always manic and I tend to hunker down and steer well clear of the busy bits. Sue was down in Looe during the week and said it was heaving. If you know where to go you can avoid the crowds completely. It's a safe bet that you could sit…
Dahlias
I grow a dozen or so named Dahlia varieties in the garden and three or four up the allotment. For the last few years I have collected seed from some of them and sowed them in March of the following year. I grow them on and plant them out on my allotment around May. They…
Eight Hydrangeas, plus one.
I have eight hydrangeas in the garden, a modest enough number but given their relatively large size in my small garden, enough. I rate them highly as ornamental plants, producing a fine display of bloom for a couple of months in June and July. Not one is a typical mop headed Hydrangea macrophylla, not because…
Six on Saturday – 25/7/2020
I seem to be accumulating drafts of blogs that never make it to being published. Nothing like a deadline to concentrate the mind. The weather is very much in blog finishing mode, endless drizzle. It always amazes me how much drizzle it takes to fill my water tanks; everything seems to be soaking wet but…
Six on Saturday – 18/7/2020
On thursday I was sowing cyclamen seeds, then yesterday I planted up some of the bare space in the front garden. It felt way too early to be sowing seeds and way too late to be planting. I have Cyclamen and Japanese anemones flowering. It seems like the chronological signposts have been removed. At least…
Six on Saturday – 11/7/2020
There's a mini-digger parked up on next doors drive, shortly to go into action to remove most of the soil from their front garden, to be replaced by gravel so they can park their vehicles. I'm finding it hard to see it as progress but maybe I'm just a grumpy old codger. Hey ho, where…
To boldly go forth and multiply
My mist system is not giving me the results I want. I had an infestation of fly larvae in it that started a few years back and slowly built to the point where I had to deal with it. I tried a few things to no effect so I decided that since the sand was…
Six on Saturday – 4/7/2020
Last week, Nate gave over her six to the arrival in her garden of a peacock. Would that I could follow her lead. Our week here has been dominated/overshadowed (take your pick) by a pair of gulls deciding to nest behind our chimney. We should have been more vigilant, but you simply can't see the…
A seedy offer.
I always collect quite a lot of seed from plants around the garden and have already started to do so this year. Some I need to collect because they are short lived plants that have to be grown anew from seed, some are interesting plants that I perhaps fancy having more of or want to…
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