Since my host post has to go out bright and early on a Saturday morning, it usually gets written on Friday. This time it's Thursday, tomorrow sees me at the Cornwall Garden Society Show in the afternoon, followed by a talk to St Breward garden club in the evening. With a weather warning for gales…
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Six on Saturday – 7/1/2023
One week into a new year and if there was a notion that a new year should feel like an improvement, it's passed. January is always going to be like that, it's a stupid month to start a new year with. Looking for an upside, I can tell you that for the seven years we've…
Six on Saturday – 10/9/2022
Last weekend we went down to the plant fair at Tremenheere, which netted me Begonia koelzii. On the way back we called in at Trevenna Cross Nursery where I found a reasonable plant of Begonia 'Garden Angel Silver'. There were other purchases, mostly for Sue. I came home significantly poorer. Since then it seems mostly…
Six on Saturday – 16/10/2021
There is still plenty of flower in the garden, a pretty good week weather wise has even produced a bit of an improvement on my Dahlias, with Salvias, Fuchsias, Plectranthus and Begonias still going strong. I've been getting stuck into autumn jobs, essentially moving things around, getting things in for winter and chopping things down.…
Six on Saturday – 27/2/2021
The pace is picking up. The sun is shining, the flowery stuff is really starting to kick off. I've sowed more seeds, taken the first Fuchsia cuttings and finished chopping down all of last years dead herbaceous growth. In the autumn I sowed lettuce and potted them up in the greenhouse; we've had a couple…
Six on Saturday – 20/2/2021
We're off to get our jabs this morning, it feels almost like a day out, given that we are going to the Wadebridge Showground; twenty miles away, quite an outing. On top of a hill in North Cornwall when there are warnings out for rain and 50mph wind gusts forecast. Quite an outing. It's been…
Six on Saturday – 6/2/2021
Throughout the winter I have struggled to find six things going on in the garden and have toyed with different angles, six gardening books, six tools, six views from a window, six types of rain. Now that the days are lengthening and things are waking up and starting to do their thing, I'm thinking of…
Six on Saturday – 2/1/2021
It gets tricky finding six things happening in the garden when nothing is happening. Other than a few things collapsing after a couple of frosty nights that is. Even going round looking for things is a bit fraught, the decking outside the back door is like a skating rink. Six things happening that are visible…
Six on Saturday – 26/12/2020
I can't quite believe I just glanced down to check the date on the computer. Boxing day, Christmas all over for another year. I was thinking of doing a retrospective six but I've never felt less like looking backwards. In the moment then, happening now; meagre pickings on that front too. Not too meagre if…
Six on Saturday – 19/12/2020
Six things in the garden is it? You're 'avin' a laugh guv. Rain, x 6. I usually take the pictures for my sixes on Friday, not a chance yesterday, solid rain from dawn 'til dusk, plus a few hours on either side. Today is very different, the sun is shining, the sky is blue. I…