ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
The fine weather continues and the garden responds. I've been spending a lot of time watering, mostly pots but some things in the ground that are beginning to suffer too. I have lots flowering at the moment, so somewhat spoiled for choice, but I'm not keen on really bright sunshine for taking pictures of flowers.…
Cloud moved in at 3pm yesterday, bringing to an end almost two days of temperatures in the mid to high twenties which, accompanied as it had been by a strong and gusty wind, was getting a bit trying. To those of you for whom 25°C is barely warm and who are accustomed to months of…
Three weeks ago, the boundary between our garden and neighbour X was marked by a hedge. Except it wasn't that simple. Their garden is about 30 inches lower than ours and the hedge in question sat atop a soil bank that from our side was about 30 inches high and from hers was twice that.…
It's a beautiful sunny day in Cornwall this morning. The garden beckons, chaos needs sorting. I popped out to see if there were shots to add to what I'd taken earlier but it's hopeless trying to take photos when the sun is so bright. Six things happening now in my garden, joining The Propagator and…
If you followed this blog for what I had to say about my allotment then I'm afraid you've had thin pickings this year, this being only my second post about it. It seems to have been a year where everything has been done in a very fragmented way so there never seems to have been…
I planted out a group of six Tagetes 'Cinnabar'; the slugs have left only the ragged stems of three and haven't touched the others. Which about sums up the garden at the moment, some things are loving an abundance of moisture and cooler temperatures, others are hating it. I'm not one for dwelling on the…
It has mostly been a dry spring and this has slowed the progress of several of my ferns. As with most plants that do most of their growing in a short burst in spring, they expect to have abundant water available to them and can be hard hit if it is not. Athyrium nipponicum 'Red…
Getting pictures yesterday for todays post wasn't a runner, it rained pretty relentlessly all day. My water tank is full, to look on the bright side. So I went out early(ish) this morning with my camera. Not a good time of day for taking pictures here, too many areas in shadow and the light rather…
Another full on week down here, I'm exhausted. Next week will be worse, the scrappy hedge between us and one of our neighbours is going, to be replaced by a fence. It all has to go through our garden because they have no front to back access other than through their house. A couple of tons…
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