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A definite downside to all this mild and wet weather is that it is the perfect atmosphere for fungus. Magical fairy rings, sinister shaggy inkcaps, delicious ceps and athlete’s foot, all love these conditions.  This leaf is showing the signs of an advanced case of the rose growers least favourite spore Diplocarpon rosae, Black Spot.  Today IContinue reading “The Black Spot”

One of my favourite sculptures in one of my favourite places.  

This is for anyone who has forgotten what sunlight on a vine leaf looks like.  Or indeed sunlight full stop.  Although this photo was only taken last weekend, it seems a dim, distant and dry world away.  It has to stop soon, surely?

I have been trying to get a half decent photograph of a ceratostigma flower for weeks.  My virtual bin is full of the pathetic, the out-of-focus and the unremarkable.  This photo is barely a quarter decent but I have given up trying for even near perfection.  Soon it will be too late to ask theContinue reading “Ceratostigma”

I am feeling much chirpier today.  This could be due to the fact that I haven’t ventured out into the continuing bleakness.  Today I am warm and dry, it is a very nice feeling.

It is still raining.  All being considered this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.  After all it is North Devon, it is autumn and I have a lingering Hammer House of Horrors cough to nurture.  Mr and Mrs G swanned off first thing telling me they had a very important meeting to attend, leaving myself andContinue reading “Again”

And it did.  And it wasn’t really a little.  Less shower, more downpour.  And I had left my waterproofs at home.  I know, “call yourself a professional” and all that, but I have not been my usual super-efficient self of late.   Mind you, I may have imagined that self.  The deluge began in earnest just asContinue reading “Into Each Life a Little Rain Must Fall”

“Oh yes”, I bragged, “we will be there at 10.00, forming an orderly queue or hammering on the door dependent on how much coffee I have drunk”.  So confident was I that we would be early than an illicit meeting had been arranged with Rusty Duck in the car park for the furtive exchange of “goods”.  You don’tContinue reading “Ten Go Mad at Rosemoor”

Using my previous post Top Ten* as reference I will sum up yesterday’s visit to Rosemoor with All Horts as follows: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. * In the event that you haven’t committed this post to memory (shame on you) here is a link for your convenience  https://offtheedgegardening.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/top-ten/    

Day out.  Brilliant.  Now tired.  Pretty flower.  More tomorrow.  Goodnight.