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Six on Saturday – Le Tour

July, who’d have thought it? It will soon be school holidays (better journey to work for me), Peggy’s birthday (cream teas, always good), rain, Tour de France (niche, I know). Oh, and glorious gardens. If you would like to admire some of these wonders then pop over to Jim at Garden Ruminations who hosts ourContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Le Tour”

Six on Saturday – Frazzled

Hands up, anyone else feeling frazzled? I thought as much, most of the UK contingent. The gardens are suffering, choices are having to be made and lessons learnt. We have been promised thundery showers today but, having just checked the Met Office forecast, it appears they have changed their minds. Someone who is hoping thatContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Frazzled”

Six on Saturday – The Spring Feeling

After a flash-in-the-pan snow incident, I am left elated and feeling like I dodged a bullet. I went to bed with a white garden, I woke with it all seeming like a chilly dream. The other side of this polar blip is that I am feeling the spring vibe. This optimism has yet to manifestContinue reading “Six on Saturday – The Spring Feeling”

Love in a Meadow

The soil is parched, despite regular watering.  In spite of this hostile environment many of the plants on Button Moon are continuing on a trajectory so upward I am scared where it all might end.   No more so than the wildflower meadow.   Last year it was a mixed meadow, this season a little less diverse. Continue reading “Love in a Meadow”

Last Man Standing

One summer, when I returned to Cornwall for a short break, someone said that I looked “pale and interesting”.  What he meant was that I looked ill.   Like a city person.  Comparing and contrasting to those around me, it was painfully apparent that he was quite right.  It wasn’t about lack of colour, it wasContinue reading “Last Man Standing”