ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I'm all behind and I'm not even sure why. I took pictures yesterday, was out at the Cornwall Garden Society Spring Show in the afternoon but escaped the evening reception but came back and just didn't get the job done. We have visitors coming for the weekend and I've a million things need doing, not…
My goal this weekend is to get a gate up at the side of the house. How difficult could that possibly be? I'll tell you next week, if I've finished it by then. I have avoidance strategies lined up, like visiting the garden centre and going to Lanhydrock. I have peas to plant, seedlings to…
OMG I'm a nervous wreck. They arrived to start on our drive on Thursday. A day of breaking concrete ensued, a day in fear of them breaking much more than concrete. Friday was a bit of a respite as they were only here for three hours, levelling out the base layer. I'd had to clear…
It’ll be a miracle if this works. We have no proper internet connection, I’m working through someone else’s access, next door presumably. Just need to get pictures from my computer to the iPad as the computer won’t connect to the same Wi-fi. There’ll be a way to do it but I’m too old. One. Has…
I thought WordPress was being a bit odd yesterday and this morning when I went to publish my post the draft had vanished. I'm doing a Saturday rewrite. Yesterday was just a bit frosty, today is brisk and breezy with rain not far off. Our cats go a bit mental when it's windy. I've been…
Thursday night was proper cold, a real shame because there are a few more Camellias starting to flower now and it has toasted them. Fortunately I took a few pictures on Thursday afternoon, having seen the forecast. It's what would have been happening Saturday had the weather been kinder. One.Camellia grijsii. As in many plant…
We had one frosty night this week, then the rain rolled in again. It blackened some hydrangea leaves and Hedychium 'Tara' is looking less chipper, though still standing. As far as things happening, there really isn't anything new, what I put in last week is still true and this week's six could have been done…
I don't seem to be spending much time in the garden at the moment, I'm very much in a phase of planning changes then making the excuse that I want to think about it before committing. I have pages of notes, a lot of them contradictory, where I've changed my mind, or duplicated, where I've…
Cornwall Hardy Plant Society had Fergus Garrett as their speaker on Wednesday and three days later my head is still buzzing. He talked fast and he packed in so much content, all about what he calls layering, the business of building communities of plants growing together such that a piece of ground has something interesting…
If you're reading this it's because I've managed to post it on some mobile device while away from home. Routine for many of you no doubt, but not for me. Which is not to say I created it on a mobile device, it was done a few days ago when I was still at home.…
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