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Chirpy

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”

Into Each Life a Little Rain Must Fall

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”

Ten Go Mad at Rosemoor

“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”

Almost a Perfect Ten

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/

Pretty Flower

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

Evil

The internet is evil. Nothing but bad can come of it. You meet people who you are unlikely to come across in the real world. Strange virtual folk with strange virtual habits. Unknown, scary, likely to have hidden agendas and devilment on their minds. But I have found these demons to be kind and generous. TheyContinue reading “Evil”

Salvia Poker

I’ll see your salvia and raise you one more. Salvia fulgens, hard to beat, but perhaps you know something different?

Poorly

I was meant to be working in Lavinia and Lionel’s garden today. Yesterday I was due at The Farm and the day before Max’s was scheduled. None of these obligations were completed. At least I made it to Max’s. Here I struggled on pathetically for an hour before throwing in the towel and staggered home, drooping tail between my leaden legs.Continue reading “Poorly”

Surely not another salvia?

Yes I’m afraid so and this salvia is once more irresistibly beautiful. Here we have the shocking pink Salvia involucrata, a native of Mexico and sometimes known as the roseleaf sage. What it lacks in hardiness it makes up for in vigour, growing up to 1.75m in a season before flowering. Once it starts to bloomContinue reading “Surely not another salvia?”