ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I really thought I was going to struggle to find six things this week but the wind dropped a couple of days back, the rain is having a few days off and the temperatures are absurd for the time of year, so a lot of plants are just keeping on going. My Dahlias have been…
Begonia 'Garden Angel Blush' 2nd July 2022 This is undoubtedly a contender for best performing plant in my garden this year. I put it into a "Six on Saturday" post on 11th June, noting that it was shaping up well, and now, on 6th November, it is still looking good, if a little windswept by…
This is my third week of hosting six on saturday and I think I've just about got the hang of it. The scheduling thing has tripped me up, and the Twitter link worked one week but not the other. I apologise if anything strange has happened at your end, this week I'm hoping to get…
Just another week? Well no, everything has changed, yet nothing has changed. I post my post, same as I always do, but the comments section assumes a level of significance it hasn't had before. I hope everything is set up as it should be, if it isn't I hope it doesn't prevent you from letting…
An October edition of the television programme that I mentioned a month ago has now gone up on the Cornwall Stress Free Television Vimeo channel, should you have seventeen minutes and 52 seconds to spare. Bobbie the cat is clearly the star.
It's all still growing! The garden is becoming impenetrable, the paths disappearing under lush vegetation. Will it get stopped abruptly by cold or storm, or collapse under its own soggy weight? I'm tidying the bits that have really had it, but so far that's not much. The glasshouse tomatoes copped it yesterday but those in…
Here we go again, six on Saturday episode 280. Things just keep on happening in this garden of mine, which is just as well, that being the point of The Propagator's excellent Saturday soiree. One.Amaryllis belladonna. Again; not quite a repeat of last week as it's a different clump of them, in the back garden…
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,…
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