And then it was September. Where did August go, surely it had only just arrived. Not a lot of gardening has been done because not a lot has been possible. Summer is gone, there has been plentiful rain, my water storage is full and parts of the garden are slowly mouldering back into the ground.…Continue reading ➞ Six on Saturday – 6/9/2025| garden ruminations
There have been early signs of autumn for the last couple of weeks, easy enough to ignore for those so minded. That changed on Wednesday with the arrival of the remains of hurricane Erin, even though it never came very close to the UK. We’ve had rain, quite a bit, and I’ve been scurrying about…Continue reading ➞ Six on Saturday – 30/8/2025| garden ruminations
I haven’t done a Six on Saturday post since the middle of July, but with winter ending and spring very … More| Thistles and Kiwis
It has been an extremely hot month of August in Southern Ontario, and just this week, we got some rain and a break with more agreeable temperatures. I have been harvesting smaller amounts of produce and herbs compared to other years, but the plants themselves still look very healthy. Here are six for this week ... click on title for more| My Slice of Mexico
There’s no escaping the fact that midsummer is well behind us and the days are getting shorter. Our garden openings are behind us, or so we thought before we were asked if we would have a small group, just four, round on Monday. The forecast for the weekend is warm, sunny and windy, not the…Continue reading ➞ Six on Saturday – 16/8/2025| garden ruminations
Our penultimate garden open was yesterday, the final one today. We had a fair turnout yesterday and would normally expect more on Saturday than Friday, so finishing on a high.In spite of many weeks…| garden ruminations
August. I was talking with my neighbour on the allotment earlier about how much of the growing season was left and whether seeds I’d sown a month ago would yield a crop. A day earlier I was talking to the neighbour on the other side about autumn sowing annual flowers in cells under cover to…Continue reading ➞ Six on Saturday – 2/8/2025| garden ruminations
The garden is beginning to look a little tired. It needs a really good downpour and none is in prospect. Then there’s the problem with Agapanthus, gall midge, which seems to have infected every Agapanthus plant I have. This morning I went around searching for and snipping off all the shoots I could find that…Continue reading ➞ Six on Saturday – 26/7/2025| garden ruminations
Wednesday was a day of almost constant drizzle which by Thursday morning was registering 7.5mm of rain in the rain gauge. Even so, such is the total area of roofs from which I collect rainwater tha…| garden ruminations
Friday evening again, on a very warm day that it seems wrong to complain about, given how few of them we get, so I’ll say nought more about it. We are having to do a lot of watering and are g…| garden ruminations
Summer trundles on, doing its summery thing. Back in the 1980’s our garden was literally the corner of a meadow, though there is very little evidence left now. The farmer whose land it was is…| garden ruminations
The berry season is in full swing in my backyard; although some of the varieties are new to me and too young to produce fruit this year, I am including them on the list … click on title for m…| My Slice of Mexico
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
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
I was finally paying attention today when the sun reached the point it was running directly down the side of the house, i.e. at a right angle to the front wall. Bang on noon. Any plant close to tha…| garden ruminations
The house painting is finished but the scaffolding is still up, so while the chaos has receded a little, we are far from back to normal. It looks like we have another week of sunny weather before a…| garden ruminations
We have a man painting the house, so scaffolding up and everything near to the house moved away. It’s chaos, and I don’t cope well with chaos not of my making. A week ago we had a fortn…| garden ruminations
Just another week? Well not quite. On May 6th 2017 this post appeared on The Propagator, a blog I’d been following for a while. Scroll down to the comments section and you will see that I ros…| garden ruminations
We have a mini heatwave forecast for the coming week, with two days expected to reach the dizzy heights of 22°C. then going back down to maximums of 15°C by next weekend. It’s no wonder the w…| garden ruminations
It’s raining. Our second full day of rain this week. The first was enough to refill all my water storage; this second lot will make sure the ground is well and truly soaked ready for a surge …| garden ruminations
The weather is set to change, essentially returning to normal; cooler with showers. It’s getting rather dry out there so a bit of rain will be welcome, so long as it knows when to stop. The f…| garden ruminations
After last week’s excitement I am quite happy to report that this week has been relatively uneventful. Things are growing, the garden gets greener by the day. There will never be a better tim…| garden ruminations
Sometimes (rarely, it has to be admitted) my life horticultural (retired) goes through a frenetic patch. Like this week; Wednesday evening, talk to garden club (Camellias); Thursday and Friday, fil…| garden ruminations
It seems stupid to be saying so, but the modest amount of rain we had today was very welcome. It’s not that the ground is dry, just that if it does turn dry very early I worry that when growt…| garden ruminations
We’ve had nearly a week of cold nights, with frost forecast but not materialising to a significant degree. Tonight and tomorrow fit the same pattern, then it warms up a little. Sadly, it curr…| garden ruminations
If Sue had still been in Australia she would around about now be experiencing the calm in the eye of a cyclone, in that the forecast track of Alfred is right over the top of where she was staying. …| garden ruminations
Oh my! I just witnessed a seismic geopolitical moment and I have to calm down and write a blog about things happening in my garden. By any real world standard, absolutely nothing is happening in my…| garden ruminations
Good Morning SOS’ers! It has been a while since we’ve met up. This morning I am strolling with you through the Cheekwood Gardens and Estate in Nashville, TN, one of the best places to visit in the United States, I think! I have written about this lovely garden before, and it’s history, but today we... Read More| ThatTravelLadyInHerShoes
Now that we are done with opening the garden for this year, it can slide into autumnal disarray without us feeling the need to put up much resistance. Growth this year has been particularly lush so…| garden ruminations
We have just had a lovely sunny day with the garden open and it has now clouded over, is drizzling and the forecast for tomorrow, when we are also open, is for rain all day.On a much more positive …| garden ruminations
Mid July and still the weather persists with being cool and wet. Looking at pictures from the same time last year I see there is a lot less in flower, in particular Cosmos and Cleome, which are way…| garden ruminations
I’m getting a bit ahead of myself in that I’m writing this on Thursday, mainly because we have visitors coming tomorrow for the weekend. Barring disasters, what is happening on Thursday…| garden ruminations