ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
One good intention that has so far fallen flat is the one about doing a bit more blogging while in theory I have more time to do it and readers more time to read it. I have excuses, the weather was too good and my allotment is a mess after a winter of doing nothing;…
I am just so thankful that I have a decent sized garden to keep me occupied, distracted, isolated and sane. It's all been said, I'll move on. If there's one thing in the garden that will lift your spirits it's flowers and by good fortune the weather has taken a turn for the better this…
There's definitely a sense that things are starting to green up in the garden, though only just managing to outpace the slugs. I went out with a torch one evening in the week, it's a bit dispiriting to see so many. Chionodoxa have lost almost every bud before they opened and Polygonatum were getting mauled.…
It's not for improving, this weather. Looks like the week after next might be better. I'm clutching at straws. One. Right, let's get this one of my chest. On Monday I went to my local garden club and someone had brought along Daffodil 'Rapture' for the flower competition we have. Last year I planted five…
Six things happening in the garden eh, how about rain, rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain. I'm grateful I still have a garden, not a river or lake. Actually it's bright sunshine just now, but ten minutes ago it was sleeting. The garden is wet and windswept but by degrees it's waking up from…
I didn't wait for Saturday to get out for some pictures this week, they were all taken yesterday. I just went out there, it was a good call. Not nice. On Monday I'm going on a workshop being run by Plant Heritage about how to use their database system. It's currently meaning I'm getting my…
I'm sure the last forecast I saw yesterday was giving a minimum of 5°C and a southerly breeze. I wasn't expecting to find frost this morning. Nothing severe, fortunately. Having had a fairly busy week, I didn't do a thing about this six until this morning. Good thing it isn't raining. So, six on Saturday,…
Oh so gloomy out. It's dry and not exceptionally cold, so usable weather for doing the things that need doing, but there's not a lot of pleasure in it. I need to get out there, I have things needing doing. One. Two years ago at this time we were down under in Australia. Their fruit…
For a while now, not a lot has been changing from one weekend to the next, at least where the garden is concerned. We have a couple of three frosty nights coming up, so that might be about to change, followed by a dry week. One. The only frost we've had here was on the…
There seems to be fair bit of stuff that is perhaps a bit too far on, at risk of getting frosted, vulnerable to slugs. Then there are last year's leftovers, things like Salvia and Plectranthus, that got singed by frost but are still hanging on. Difficult to know what to try and protect, what to…
