At this time of year a bit of sunshine makes a huge difference both to photos of the garden and to the pleasure of being out in it. Today is desperately dull. My various Hakonechloas are providing some colour, as are the evergreens but there isn't a great deal flowering. Just outside the front window…
End of month view – November 2016
Last day of November and for this Cornish garden, the first frost of the season. Did it blacken my dahlias? Well no, because the wind and rain had reduced them to an unsightly mess weeks ago and they were cut down and lifted, or in some cases covered with a heap of leaves, weeks ago. The…
End of month view – October 2016
It's interesting to compare photos taken on the same date in consecutive years. Last year the Acer had shed its leaves, the orange dahlia had stopped flowering and the Amaryllis which this year have been finished a week or more, were still performing. Other differences, like the shrub that is no longer in front of…
End of month view -September 2016
Shamelessly pinching the idea from Patient Gardener Helen, I am going to do this months eomv as a walk around our small patch of Cornwall. I've put a map at the bottom of the page showing where you are for each photo. (1) If you came through our side gate this would be your first…
Allotment – taking stock
It being September, almost the end of the growing season, it seems natural to take stock of how that growing season has gone. This has been my first year of not digging and my results have been sufficiently good to attract the attention of my neighbouring plotholders. My crops have on average been at least…
Wordless Wednesday 31-08-2016
End of month view – August 2016
The lack of change between this view now and a month ago belies a definite change in the feel of things. A month ago the floral trajectory was up, now it is unmistakeably down. Around mid August it peaked, timing it badly for the end of month meme. It's now the season of taking stock…
Pruning the apple tree
Well it's done now, for better or worse. There's no going back. I have to admit to a degree of trepidation each year when the third week of August comes around and it is time to prune my Suntan apple. It has to be done; in a garden the size of mine there is no…
Wordless Wednesday
End of month view-July 2016
Another month, another transition, or so it seems to me. July seems to have been the month when the pinks, reds, blues and mauves of early summer yield to the yellows, oranges and scarlets of late summer. I've gone overboard on Dahlias this year. I bought 20 new varieties from Varfell and while a few didn't…
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