ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
I rushed around on Thursday to get a few pictures, frost having been forecast that night. I've been out all day today (Friday) do haven't had a look to see if any damage was done. It's a two steps forward, one step back time of year. Hopefully for most of you out there it's two…
It's light a little earlier in the morning, starting to be noticeable. And things are growing; slowly, but surely. Most of last year's dead stuff is gone, Crocus and snowdrops are flowering. It's not raining. Situation normal ...... One.I haven't done a WordPress before and after shot for a while, so when I decided to…
I think the main problem I have with this weather is that the forecasters seem to keep on promising that it is about to warm up, then it doesn't. It would also help greatly if it was sunnier, 6°C in sun can feel quite pleasant but under thick cloud feels raw. Whingeing won't help, onwards…
It looks like it's going to warm up through the day and be frost free tonight, so perhaps the best thing is to forget the past week and look only forward. It's been very cold, the longest sustained cold spell for years, and will have done some damage. How much damage will not become become…
Into December, meteorological winter and actual, frost on the ground winter. I don't know what we will get, temperature forecasts are never very reliable and while there's not much to choose between 30°C and 34°C, there is a world of difference between -2°C and +2°C. Plants in the garden have had it cushy of late,…
The wine it was drunk, the ship it was sunk,The shot it was dead, all the sorrows were drowned.The birds they were clouds, the brides and the shroudsAnd as we drew south the mist it came down. Late November. Sandy Denny. Ah, they don't make 'em like that any more. A fragment of the soundtrack…
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…
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…
I imagine I'm not alone in putting my Saturday sixes together on the Friday, an arrangement that means this was written in one year to be published in the next. A 50:50 split between looking back and looking forward suggests itself but is not what's on offer. It hasn't been a great year so looking…
Not a lot of gardening here this week, to cold, too wet, too windy. So bad have things got that I started a jigsaw puzzle yesterday and since it was a 1000 piece leaf montage, I nearly included it in this six. That would have been desperation indeed. As it is, there are two pictures…
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