Morning all, it’s Six on Saturday time again. Autumn seems to be in the air this week: the mornings are a tad dewy and misty, and the afternoons have been pretty delightful on the whole. The Propagator will be hosting a smorgasbord of Six on Saturday delights from around the globe, as is his way. …
On a bright, sunny Sunday morning, I headed over to Rookery Park to take a look at the Avenue of Lime Trees for this month’s Tree Following. Personally, I don’t think September is necessarily the marker of the onset of autumn, but this particular morning certainly felt that way. The temperature was mild, despite the …
Welcome to another Six on Saturday! As usual, I am joining with The Propagator and chums for a spot o’ blogging. Since we last met, there’ve had some absolute scorchers and a couple of pretty biblical deluges; it would be fair to say it’s been a week of extremes. August ’round here has been very …
Last week’s rootling around left one rather significant stone unturned: Corydalis tubers. A significant number of the Corydalis genus form tubers of some description to see them through the hard times. For many of them these hard times mean the searingly hot summers and witheringly cold winters of Eastern Europe and Central Asia; really only …
Good morning and welcome to another Six on Saturday. The last couple of Sixes have avoided the garden as a whole; either loitering around a single plant, or heading off to the allotment. Well we’re back in the garden this week for a general update: a few late summer blooms, along with some Cyclamen flowers …
We; gardeners, amateur botanists, plant enthusiasts; spend much of our time waxing lyrical about the various merits of various plants. Flowers get the most attention, leaves and foliage next, stems and bark and seeds and seed heads come lower down on the scale, often featuring as little more than curiosities. Roots very rarely figure at …
Hello! It’s time to commence on another Six on Saturday. As is his way, The Propagator will be the home to all sorts of posts from around the world, so do pop over and take a look, although there’s a good chance that that’s how you got here in the first place! For my Six …
On Sunday morning I toddled up the garden to check on how everything was doing. It turned out that I am not the only creature that takes an interested in my Corydalis. Less than amused was I, to discover that some sort of devilish brute had disentombed my plants. In fact I was flippin’ furious. …
Good morning and welcome to another Six on Saturday! Last week Jim over at Garden Ruminations featured a few pollinators hanging around on Oregano vulgare ‘Aureum’ as the first of his Six on Saturday. As it happened, I had been hanging around the very same plant (in my garden, not his) and attempting to take …
Last week we all traipsed off to North Wales for five days, much fun was had by all but the focus here is on the botanical. Heathland Highlights On the second day of our trip we thought we’d see how the little ‘uns coped with a Big Old Hill, so we headed down the road …