ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
There was a time I might have played "Late November" half a dozen times back to back; that's Sandy Denny for you youngsters. 1971, on vinyl, which I still have. Where the hell did that go! The time, not the record. Her song, "Who knows where the time goes?" is even older, 1969. Unhalfbricking, great…
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.…
Last weekend Sue and I were at the Chelsea Flower Show on Friday and Monday. Most of the time we were helping to man the International Camellia Society stand so we didn't get to see much of the rest of the show, but talking camellias for hours on end is pretty much my idea of…
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…
I've hardly been out in the garden this week. It's been cold, often wet and the ground is sodden. I lifted a couple of Begonias and potted them up. They'll go back out in spring and be months ahead of where they'd be if left in the ground. Did a bit of tidying up and…
It's been a dreary old week where very little gardening has been done. I did manage to get up to Mt Edgcumbe and Antony House on Thursday, trying to identify a recalcitrant Camellia or two, with limited success. At least I was outdoors and away from the house, which feels the more liberating for being…
I seem to be accumulating drafts of blogs that never make it to being published. Nothing like a deadline to concentrate the mind. The weather is very much in blog finishing mode, endless drizzle. It always amazes me how much drizzle it takes to fill my water tanks; everything seems to be soaking wet but…
Looks like we may be back to more familiar weather for a while, frontal systems coming in off the Atlantic, an hour or two of rain then back to dry. The garden seems to be in transition, I've done nearly all the planting I have planned and am waiting for things to start flowering. In…
We actually had a bit of rain yesterday, sorely needed but nowhere near enough. Still, every little helps. I torture myself by looking all too frequently at the Met Office radar; it's amazing how much rain just misses us. I've been up my allotment most days this week, almost on top of the weeds that…
Six things happening in the garden eh, how about rain, rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain. I'm grateful I still have a garden, not a river or lake. Actually it's bright sunshine just now, but ten minutes ago it was sleeting. The garden is wet and windswept but by degrees it's waking up from…
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