ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Around this time last year I did a post on Begonias. It was getting to the end of a growing season during which I'd been experimenting further with planting out some supposedly hardy begonias as well as some that I knew would need lifting again before the winter. I have repeated and extended my experimentation…
In like a lamb and out like a lion describes this week. I need better weather, I have things to get on with. Rainy days are good for blogging and bad for things to blog about.Bulbs have been to the fore this week in that Tony Tomeo sent me lots of Amaryllis seed, thank you…
I put off using the WordPress block editor for as long as I could but eventually decided to jump in. There's a block called image compare which I've been playing with. It's nifty stuff but you really need to get two pictures taken from the exact same spot and with the same camera setup. That's…
Phew, what a week, and it's not over yet. Last Sunday was the Rare plant fair at Tregrehan, probably the highlight of my gardening year. It was postponed from June but was worth the wait. I shouldn't do this because it'll make you envious, but this is what we bought. (Sue came too)Crassula albaBegonia 'Griphon'Begonia…
The weather looks set to assert itself next week, bringing an end to the pretence that summer is lingering on. The first seed catalogue arrived thursday too. I'm OK with it, even if I do have at least two Dahlias that have only begun to flower this week. My thoughts are turning to next season…
It'll be a familiar tale. A part of the garden that has passed its sell by date, not a lot happening, not visited much and then only to get somewhere else. Chances are it's dominated by evergreen shrubs that have been getting steadily bigger, casting too much shade, squeezing out the smaller plants. Tackling it…
The glasshouse floor is finished, I have staging and shelving on order. I'll make it item number one even though nothing much is happening in there today. If a thing is just statically there, in situ, going nowhere, does it qualify as happening on a Saturday? A flower or plant is transitory, so it is…
Where do the weeks go, it's scary how little time seems to have lapsed since last week. I'm in full on project mode in the garden, sorting out the glasshouse that I used to call my propagation house. It's still essentially a sideshow to moving the tunnel but it needs doing so I have somewhere…
Almost the end of August, the year seems to have slipped through my fingers. I finally got around to dragging the roll of polythene out of the attic and measuring it; nowhere near big enough to re-sheet my tunnel. Yesterday I ordered a new sheet, and hot spot tape. I may have passed the point…
I've been using Melcourt Sylvagrow for a good few years. I was using it as a professional grower for several years before I retired in 2014 and I've been using it at home, pretty much to the exclusion of anything else, ever since. It's a peat free growing medium based on composted wood waste and…
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