ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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,…
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…
Having finished our garden openings for this summer, I went out with my phone and took a lot of clips of things I thought looked OK, then tried to cobble it together into a video. As with taking photos using film, digital changes everything. You can take hours of appalling footage without it costing you…
This week saw some significant rain, which was very welcome except that most of the paths are now almost impassable. The curtain is beginning to go up on the last act for this year, with Asters opening, Nerine pushing up and Hedychiums flowering. With our NGS openings I've acquired a dead-heading habit that has stood…
At the end of a week of gardening where I barely engaged with plants at all, I'm going to do six plants. I just looked back to last week's six and I'd barely started on my fence. Somehow I've pressed on through rain and shine and it's now finished. I've tidied up and turned my…
Where do the weeks go, it's scary how little time seems to have lapsed since last week. I'm in full on project mode in the garden, sorting out the glasshouse that I used to call my propagation house. It's still essentially a sideshow to moving the tunnel but it needs doing so I have somewhere…
Hmmm, I seem to be in the WordPress block editor, so the outcome, or output, is uncertain at best. I'll give it a whirl before I throw my toys out of the pram. The last couple of days, especially yesterday, have been windy, so both the garden and I are looking a bit battered. I…
If this weather had wanted to do one redeeming thing it could actually have given us some rain, which both garden and allotment need quite badly. All the heavy stuff has contrived to miss us or to fizzle out just short of us. I'm a weather radar junkie, there has been massive rainfall all around…
I was going to go and collect my onions from the allotment but it's just started raining. Today may not be the day I had planned. Tomorrow we're off down west to the rare Plant Fair at Tremenheere and a jolly round the Dahlia field at Varfell. I'm expecting it to be one of the highlights…
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