ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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…
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…
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…
The house painting is finished but the scaffolding is still up, so while the chaos has receded a little, we are far from back to normal. It looks like we have another week of sunny weather before a possible breakdown so everything is growing like mad, good for the build up to opening the garden…
We have a man painting the house, so scaffolding up and everything near to the house moved away. It's chaos, and I don't cope well with chaos not of my making. A week ago we had a fortnight of good weather in prospect; that's now changed and I'm dreading the painting job getting drawn out…
Just another week? Well not quite. On May 6th 2017 this post appeared on The Propagator, a blog I'd been following for a while. Scroll down to the comments section and you will see that I rose to the bait of a proposed new meme even in that very first week, posting an opening six…
We have a mini heatwave forecast for the coming week, with two days expected to reach the dizzy heights of 22°C. then going back down to maximums of 15°C by next weekend. It's no wonder the weather is a top subject for conversations amongst Brits, its just so exciting. In the absence of any significant…
It's raining. Our second full day of rain this week. The first was enough to refill all my water storage; this second lot will make sure the ground is well and truly soaked ready for a surge of spring growth. In short, enough already!!! The garden is mostly loving it, though that includes slugs, which…
The weather is set to change, essentially returning to normal; cooler with showers. It's getting rather dry out there so a bit of rain will be welcome, so long as it knows when to stop. The forecast is showing showery rain every day for the next fortnight, by which time I will be very tired…
After last week's excitement I am quite happy to report that this week has been relatively uneventful. Things are growing, the garden gets greener by the day. There will never be a better time to join the Saturday sixers; just post pictures of six things happening in your garden this Saturday and put a link…
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