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…
Allotment update
It is the nature of allotments that both inputs and outputs are almost always little and often rather than big, one off events. Ideal for blogging if you're into all the minutiae, not so much if you're not. My Kestrel potatoes now have blight and I will take the tops off in preparation for lifting…
Hydrangeas
Hydrangeas are to an extent the victims of their own success. There are very few plants to rival the mophead macrophylla hydrangeas for providing the maximum flower display for the minimum of effort. As a result they are absolutely everywhere and familiarity rapidly breeds contempt. The good news is that they are also a rare…
Wordless wednesday 6/7/2016
End of month view, June 2016
There's no getting away from the fact that foliage has had a better time of it this month than flowers. Growth of just about everything has been prodigious, except for the things I've failed to protect from slugs, but flowering has been patchy. Foxgloves, mostly self sown pinks, a few planted whites, have been great…
Potting.
Back in November I noticed fruits on Fuchsia glazioviana growing in the garden. This is a quite small grower with often good leaf colour so well worth growing. I wondered if it had picked up pollen from something interesting, so I picked a few fruits, extracted the seeds and sowed them. They germinated very quickly…
Allotment update
It feels like about the midpoint of the season. I have now pretty much filled all the space I have, but looking forward a month or so I shall have a lot of free space where peas and potatoes have been harvested. Today I sowed perpetual spinach, beetroot, chard and cabbage in the hope that…
Wordless Wednesday 15/06/2016
Flowers in my garden 14/06/2016
garden ruminations 