ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I can't quite believe that I've taken pictures over the last couple of days and now have more than enough from which to pick six. True, some are repeats of things I posted in the last few weeks, but that, in a way, is the point. Plants that were looking good a month or six…
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…
The American Begonia Society maintains a list of unidentified species of Begonias in cultivation, allocating each a number consisting of the letter U followed by three digits. The whole number should be italicized, turning Begonia U614 into Begonia U614. U614 was originally introduced to cultivation by the late Michael Wickenden, then proprietor of Cally Gardens…
Can someone tell me, cos I'd really like to know, how you can spend a whole week gardening from dawn till dusk and it's just as big a mess at the end of the week as it was at the beginning. I've pruned, planted, sowed, watered, weeded, shredded, potted, watered; you name it, I've done…
It's been a bit warmer down here this week but any gain in bringing things on quicker has been offset by wind and rain. My garden is pretty open and strong wind is never welcome. Earlier in the week I had enough Camellias looking good to be motivated to write a piece about them on…
Looks like it's going cold from the diagonally opposite corner of the country, moving this way but maybe not quite making it. Things are well enough under way to be worried about new growth getting clobbered, a routine, happens every year kind of worry. Six things in the garden on a Saturday, posted for the…
Not a lot happens in an English garden in January. What was happening a week ago is still happening, and it wasn't much. I could do with a short run of weeks without Saturdays, just skip from Friday to Sunday, but it's not going to happen. It's only six things, how difficult could it possibly…
It looks like it's going to warm up through the day and be frost free tonight, so perhaps the best thing is to forget the past week and look only forward. It's been very cold, the longest sustained cold spell for years, and will have done some damage. How much damage will not become become…
Into December, meteorological winter and actual, frost on the ground winter. I don't know what we will get, temperature forecasts are never very reliable and while there's not much to choose between 30°C and 34°C, there is a world of difference between -2°C and +2°C. Plants in the garden have had it cushy of late,…
The wine it was drunk, the ship it was sunk,The shot it was dead, all the sorrows were drowned.The birds they were clouds, the brides and the shroudsAnd as we drew south the mist it came down. Late November. Sandy Denny. Ah, they don't make 'em like that any more. A fragment of the soundtrack…
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