We are opening our garden on eight days this summer under the NGS, in four sets of two consecutive days. Our latest was the 3rd and 4th of July and this video is for those of you who were unable to make it. Unlike my video of our last opening I have put a partial…
Six on Saturday – 5/7/2025
Summer trundles on, doing its summery thing. Back in the 1980's our garden was literally the corner of a meadow, though there is very little evidence left now. The farmer whose land it was is pretty elderly now and while he has been round our garden in the past has not done so recently. I…
Allotment update – 1/7/2025
I suspect that if I look in my draft posts folder that there will be one from earlier this year about my allotment. I'm sure I at least started such a thing and I would be unsurprised if I never finished and posted it. The allotment ticks over in very small increments so there never…
Six on Saturday 28/6/2025
Nearly the end of June, high summer. I'm more or less into a ticking over phase, everything is planted and growing, it just needs watering and tying and tweaking to give of its best. It looks like we're due a short lived burst of heat, peaking on Monday at about 26C. Six items of interest…
Six on Saturday – 21/6/2025
One more hot day and then it cools down. I'm not a heat lover, 21°C is about my ideal; today's 27°C was something of a slog. Gardening as an active pursuit goes on, we've three more openings, two days each time, the next on 3/4th July. Changes need to be made soon after an opening…
Going walkabout on 16/5/2025.
On Friday and Saturday we opened our garden under the National Gardens Scheme. I wanted to do a snapshot of how it looked for our visitors so I attempted to walk most of the paths in the garden in both directions, filming as I went, but to do so in one continuous take. It's a…
Six on Saturday – 14/6/2025
Friday evening, still raining, as it has since about 1pm. Three couples braved the weather and visited the garden, three more than we had expected. Tomorrow should be better. Our antipodean visitors move on to London tomorrow, taking Sue with them, so it's going to seem very quiet. Between last minute tidying up and having…
Six on Saturday – 7/6/2025
Flaming June! Huh! We have family over from Australia and while we were never going to compete with their weather, we could have done without the demo of a proper Cornish summer. The garden is loving it, though the marauding molluscs are having a ball. There have been many fatalities and there will be many…
Six on Saturday – 31/5/2025
We're just about to move into meteorological summer so I suppose if you don't have six things happening in your garden now then the only reason you're reading this is for the vicarious pleasure of seeing pictures from gardens that do. Or you're a long way down in the southern hemisphere maybe. The name of…
Six on Saturday – 24/5/2025
I was finally paying attention today when the sun reached the point it was running directly down the side of the house, i.e. at a right angle to the front wall. Bang on noon. Any plant close to that line of shadow suddenly finds itself in the full glare of midday sun. If we were…
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