ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I obtained Begonia 'Torsa' in 2020 and I cannot remember from whom. It may have been from Tregrehan Plant Fair but if it was I still don't know which nursery was selling it. Never mind. It was kept in a pot through 2020 and over winter into 2021, under glass but with minimal heat. It…
If ever a week slipped by without me noticing, it was the one just gone. Yesterday was pretty typical, Sue and I had agreed to be Stewards in the Flower Marquee at the the Royal Cornwall Show, 1-3pm. We knew the traffic would be terrible, and it was, so we set off around 10, which…
Well, that was a full on horticultural week. Camellia Society meeting on Monday, Mount Edgcumbe on Wednesday (camellias), full day on my allotment on Thursday and a couple of days of pricking off, potting up and on, pruning and so on around the garden. I want to get another day in on the allotment today,…
I've actually spent a bit of time in the garden this week, partly tidying up, partly starting on my quite lengthy list of things that need doing in winter. It looks like the weather is set to turn wet again next week so I should probably keep at it over the weekend. The sun is…
Deeper into autumn and it's getting trickier. Camellia sasanqua is just starting, so that helps. We've yet to have a frost, which is just as well since there's a lot of stuff still outside that shouldn't be. I was admiring someone's toasted Impatiens yesterday, just a couple of miles away but at lower altitude, so…
I have written two earlier posts about Begonias in the garden. I'm not referring to the usual bedding types, rather to a range of mainly fairly recently introduced new species that are on the border of hardiness as well as some that would usually be grown as house plants. My collection continues to grow and…
Having finished our garden openings for this summer, I went out with my phone and took a lot of clips of things I thought looked OK, then tried to cobble it together into a video. As with taking photos using film, digital changes everything. You can take hours of appalling footage without it costing you…
I took a few pictures yesterday but didn't write this on Friday evening as I usually do, so I went out again this morning with the sun just high enough to catch a few things in the garden. There's a whiff of winding down, flowers going over, foliage starting to look tatty. Most of the…
Back on the watering treadmill but who could complain about such glorious weather. The Dahlias are beginning to kick off, which in gardening terms is my yardstick for summer proper. Six for this week, easy peasy. OneHydrangea serrata 'Shojo'. This is on the edge of my shady area and gets very little direct sun though…
We had one of my sisters staying this week, so instead of sorting my saturday six on friday, they have been done this morning. It rained all night and the garden is drenched. It's drizzling still but hopefully will brighten up so we can do a bit of preening for tomorrow's opening, which yet again…
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