ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Once again, I'm scheduling this post and going out for the day. Rosemoor garden is hosting the RHS National Rhododendron show, with a late Camellia competition thrown in. The weather forecast isn't great, so I probably wouldn't have got a lot done in the garden but there is plenty needing doing. It feels like it's…
What a difference a bit of sunshine makes, to both the gardener and the garden. We've had quite low temperatures at night this week but no frost, and there's a sense that the garden is going through the phases, Scillas and crocus finished flowering, now leafy; tulips, primroses, Erythroniums, Muscari taking their turn. Things are…
It's turned wet, hour after hour of drizzly rain, so not enough to fill Colliford Reservoir and get the threat of water restrictions lifted, but enough to keep this gardener indoors most of the week. On the whole, the garden is happy with it, though I'm seeing a lot of slugs and expect them to…
I rushed around on Thursday to get a few pictures, frost having been forecast that night. I've been out all day today (Friday) do haven't had a look to see if any damage was done. It's a two steps forward, one step back time of year. Hopefully for most of you out there it's two…
Perish the thought I might be getting ahead of myself, but there are very definitely signs that a new season is kicking off. The advantageous bit, as far as SoS is concerned, is that there are a few more flowers appearing, but of greater significance, in the great scheme of things, is that there are…
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…
Even though the weather has returned to normal the fallout from the dryness and hot spell is still playing out. Some things are growing like it's spring; ferns that had shrivelled and gone dormant are greening up, Fuchsias are making new growth and flowering profusely, Corydalis flexuosa is re-emerging in fresh greenery. Winter may be…
Yesterday I noticed my second Dahlia emerging, and I'm talking of plants that were left in the ground for the winter. I'm not even freaking out about slugs as it's been so dry there are very few about. I'll still be doing night time forays to check but they'll be targeted five minute forays rather…
This little corner of the kingdom didn't get the warmest day of the year that most of the rest of you got yesterday. I spent much of the day wrestling with my water storage system so it's ready for the rain that isn't in the forecast either. It's benign weather, the flowers are lasting well…
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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