ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
With the weather still not really conducive to gardening I've spent much of the week on things camellia related. Mostly that has meant sitting in front of the computer updating records in the Plant Heritage database of the Mount Edgcumbe collection. I went up to the park yesterday, taking photos of plant labels mostly, by…
Christmas Eve. I thought it was going to rain all week but it wasn't so bad. It's the USA that's being hammered now, in a fashion that puts our recent episode in perspective. My thoughts are with you guys, hope you don't get hit too hard and that it doesn't spoil Christmas. The garden is…
We had one of my sisters staying this week, so instead of sorting my saturday six on friday, they have been done this morning. It rained all night and the garden is drenched. It's drizzling still but hopefully will brighten up so we can do a bit of preening for tomorrow's opening, which yet again…
It looks like yesterday morning's frost may be the last and that we are going to get slightly higher temperatures in the next week or two. We had a good bit of rain overnight but less seems to have found its way into my storage system than I would have liked. A lot of things…
Almost the end of August, the year seems to have slipped through my fingers. I finally got around to dragging the roll of polythene out of the attic and measuring it; nowhere near big enough to re-sheet my tunnel. Yesterday I ordered a new sheet, and hot spot tape. I may have passed the point…
Last week, Nate gave over her six to the arrival in her garden of a peacock. Would that I could follow her lead. Our week here has been dominated/overshadowed (take your pick) by a pair of gulls deciding to nest behind our chimney. We should have been more vigilant, but you simply can't see the…
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…
I've done a fair few of these six on Saturday posts and it occurred to me to wonder whether I'd missed anything, so I took a stroll round the garden and noted a few things I thought I might never have included, then came back in and checked. I could do at least three weeks…
Benign day today, gales tomorrow. We had a couple of frosts during the week so there's a lot of mush about but we're now back to the more usual succession of weather systems coming in off the Atlantic. It's not so much that nothing is happening outdoors, just that it's the same few things going…
It's absolutely sluicing it down just now, as it has been for several hours. The wind has dropped a bit though. Good thing I did my pictures yesterday when it was only drizzling. One. Camellia yunnanensis. I went down to Trelissick on Thursday to a meeting about a study day on Camellias that I'm going…
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