ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I really thought I was going to struggle to find six things this week but the wind dropped a couple of days back, the rain is having a few days off and the temperatures are absurd for the time of year, so a lot of plants are just keeping on going. My Dahlias have been…
Just another week? Well no, everything has changed, yet nothing has changed. I post my post, same as I always do, but the comments section assumes a level of significance it hasn't had before. I hope everything is set up as it should be, if it isn't I hope it doesn't prevent you from letting…
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…
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…
If ever a week slipped by without me noticing, it was the one just gone. Yesterday was pretty typical, Sue and I had agreed to be Stewards in the Flower Marquee at the the Royal Cornwall Show, 1-3pm. We knew the traffic would be terrible, and it was, so we set off around 10, which…
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.…
With every week that passes there is a sense of the spring slowly winding down. It's a chilly 12°C here this morning but the weather has been benign and most things are holding up quite well but a day or two of wind and rain will quickly change that. I'm not talking Ida wind and…
I took a few pictures yesterday but didn't write this on Friday evening as I usually do, so I went out again this morning with the sun just high enough to catch a few things in the garden. There's a whiff of winding down, flowers going over, foliage starting to look tatty. Most of the…
We went midweek to visit Wildside garden at Buckland Monochorum. This garden, created by Keith Wiley with a great deal of inspiration from his late wife Ros, is as close as any garden I know to my idea of a perfect garden. It is packed full of good plants, all planted in a naturalistic way…
This week I was minded to run with a theme of yellow, but could only find five decent contenders and wanted to include at least one white. Yellow features strongly then but not exclusively. One.Crocosmia 'Paul's Best Yellow'. All is relative. Compared to Crocosmia 'Hellfire' at the bottom of the picture it is just about…
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