ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Deeper into autumn and it's getting trickier. Camellia sasanqua is just starting, so that helps. We've yet to have a frost, which is just as well since there's a lot of stuff still outside that shouldn't be. I was admiring someone's toasted Impatiens yesterday, just a couple of miles away but at lower altitude, so…
The rain gauge yesterday morning had accumulated 52.5mm in the prior 24hrs and it was a very soggy garden that I wandered round, looking for survivors to include here. There was more than I expected; the usual mix at this time of year of late performers and earlier performers just hanging in with a last…
Lordy, where did that month go? It's deep into the time of preparing for next season, this one being dead and gone. I've been planting, digging up and potting, moving and chucking out. I write myself lists, the current one still has less things done than not.It being the weird year it is, on Tuesday…
garden ruminations 