offtheedgegardening

Brain Plant

This is one of Nancy Nightingale’s purchases. I like to call it the brain plant. That is because I have no idea of the true name. I am not sure that I want to know. However the more I look at its bizarre folds of scarlet, and in spite of myself, I am beginning toContinue reading “Brain Plant”

Six on Saturday – The Builders Are Coming …….

September, how did that happen? This “time passing” malarkey is quite disturbing sometimes. It is Six on Saturday time once more. What Andrew Lloyd Webber is to musical theatre, The Prop is to the Meme. But much more handsome. Take a look at his blog and marvel at some of his greatest hits, the divasContinue reading “Six on Saturday – The Builders Are Coming …….”

Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Goldquelle’

A new rudbeckia for me this year is Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Goldquelle’, purchased by Max’s Dad during one of his on-line splurges. Good choice, don’t you think?

Phew!

This is Nancy Nightingale’s garden. After a whole month of total neglect. Yes four full weeks of being ignored. Our very own NN has been abroad on a secret mission and her home in the meantime been home to wannabe surfers and possibly hipsters. Not a gardener in sight. When I visited yesterday I wasContinue reading “Phew!”

Six on Saturday – Eye of the Storm

As we have been spared, well I have anyway, Six on Saturday will go ahead as planned. Please do us all a favour and take a look at the The Prop’s site, he gets in a terrible sulk if you don’t. And a Propogator sulk is a magnificently terrifying event. We begin with SalviaContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Eye of the Storm”

Reading

A couple of weeks ago I was in my doctor’s waiting room, quite happily making imaginary diagnoses of my fellow patients with one eye whilst reading a magazine with the other. Do not try this at home, it is a skill I have taken years to perfect. Just as I was about to findContinue reading “Reading”

Bright Side

There are some advantages to persistent mizzle, even when you are out in it all day, stewing like an old turnip in head to toe waterproofs, the only ventilation provided by a leaking boot. They are as follows: Good company, both human and canine, although a degree of encouragement was dispensed from the dry sideContinue reading “Bright Side”

People

Folk, they get in the way. Some say “I like having people in my photos, they add scale and interest”. Not me. They clutter and blot and spoil everything. Trying to photograph the Hot Garden at RHS Rosemoor on a Saturday in August without including a member of the public is as tricky as unicornContinue reading “People”

Six on Saturday – Wise Words

Another day, another Six on Saturday. As I am on a jolly holiday trip today I have risen very, very, very early* to contribute to this popular meme, for fear of the wrath of The Emperor Prop if I should miss another week**. Due to my extreme rushdom these photos could have done with aContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Wise Words”

Pursuit

The annual wildflower mix on Button Moon is still going strong, with tickseed and late marigolds beginning to take over from the linum and nigella. This is great news not only for us but for the host of pollinators who are enjoying these riches. Today I pursued, in the nicest non stalker like way, aContinue reading “Pursuit”