Nearly the end of June, high summer. I’m more or less into a ticking over phase, everything is planted and growing, it just needs watering and tying and tweaking to give of its best. It looks…| garden ruminations
One more hot day and then it cools down. I’m not a heat lover, 21°C is about my ideal; today’s 27°C was something of a slog. Gardening as an active pursuit goes on, we’ve three mo…| garden ruminations
On Friday and Saturday we opened our garden under the National Gardens Scheme. I wanted to do a snapshot of how it looked for our visitors so I attempted to walk most of the paths in the garden in …| garden ruminations
Friday evening, still raining, as it has since about 1pm. Three couples braved the weather and visited the garden, three more than we had expected. Tomorrow should be better. Our antipodean visitor…| garden ruminations
Flaming June! Huh! We have family over from Australia and while we were never going to compete with their weather, we could have done without the demo of a proper Cornish summer. The garden is lovi…| garden ruminations