ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
After weeks of dry cold weather we now have slightly warmer damp weather. There's been a sense of things being held back but whether it has warmed up enough to get them moving again remains to be seen. Yet again it was a struggle to find six things to mention and I'm sorry if some…
Surprise, surprise, it's still winter. Still cold, still nothing much happening, still a Saturday turning up every week and demanding attention. As ever, it's my Camellias that are providing the most colour at this season of the year, though I had hopes for Crocus to open in the sunshine. It wasn't to be, just too…
How can January have felt like such a drawn out slog while it was happening but seem to have gone in a flash in retrospect? Can it really be February already. Once again I find myself having to make excuses for my supposedly all year round garden, which hasn't changed an iota since a week…
I've nearly got my computer back to where it was yesterday before I clicked on the wrong thing and had to do a complete restore of operating system and all my programs. Oops. It was going to be a struggle to find six things this week in any case, though thankfully Eowyn didn't hit us…
It's been a pretty cold, mainly dull week weatherwise and not a lot has changed out there in the garden. There was very little happening a week ago and there's very little happening now. My six this week might just have to push at the boundaries a little, or I'm not going to get past…
It's a measure of how lousy the weather has been this last week that I've spent most of it inside decorating. As in painting walls. I hate decorating. I popped out between coats on the last wall to see if anything was happening in the great outdoors and came up with the selection below. The…
Brrr! It's cold. We had a real frost last night and are due another tonight. I'm very well aware how relative temperature is though, especially around freezing point. There's a world of difference between +2 and -2, way more than between +18 and +22, whatever the arithmetic says.In practical terms it means that the above…
If you're expecting the last six from me for 2024 to be the cherry on the top, forget it. I went round the garden this morning, looking for something, anything, to talk about and the pickings are thin. In a year when we haven't even had a frost hard enough to do more than blacken…
I've been fixing the fence that blew down in the wind. I'm getting there but it's still not finished. One more day should see it done. There isn't a lot happening at this time of year, the transition from one year to the next seems to play out at a snails pace. Just about everything…
I can't quite believe that my Vitopod propagator arrived as recently as 2020, it seems to have been around much longer. That might be a testimony to how many turnovers of cuttings have come through it since then, it's certainly a lot. I used to have a mist system, suspended over a sand bed with…
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