ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Phew, what a week, and it's not over yet. Last Sunday was the Rare plant fair at Tregrehan, probably the highlight of my gardening year. It was postponed from June but was worth the wait. I shouldn't do this because it'll make you envious, but this is what we bought. (Sue came too)Crassula albaBegonia 'Griphon'Begonia…
It'll be a familiar tale. A part of the garden that has passed its sell by date, not a lot happening, not visited much and then only to get somewhere else. Chances are it's dominated by evergreen shrubs that have been getting steadily bigger, casting too much shade, squeezing out the smaller plants. Tackling it…
Almost the end of August, the year seems to have slipped through my fingers. I finally got around to dragging the roll of polythene out of the attic and measuring it; nowhere near big enough to re-sheet my tunnel. Yesterday I ordered a new sheet, and hot spot tape. I may have passed the point…
It started with the Thursday night clap. Most of our neighbours were in on that from about week two. Then one of my sisters set up a get together on Facebook messenger and that has become a Friday morning ritual. Then one of our neighbours suggested we have a bit of a socially distanced street…
And so it goes on. Applause broke out at 8pm on Thursday so I opened the window and joined it, then someone went for a bottle of wine and before long there were all our neighbours out with chairs and bottles, all keeping a sensible distance from each other but socialising in a totally unprecedented…
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…
Too many twos in the date if you ask me. Actually managed to get a bit of gardening done yesterday, mainly chopping down grasses and Epimediums before the new growth gets any higher and makes it impossible. It looks barer, I'm not sure it looks better. A few more weeks will change that though, there…
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