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“Designers want me to dress like spring, in billowing things.
I don’t feel like spring. I feel like a warm, red autumn.”
~ Marilyn Monroe
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Alexanders, Chickweed, Sloes, Dandelion Leaves, Rosehips, Hawthorn berries, Bullaces, Cleavers, Burdock Roots, Rowan Berries
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Category Archives: Six on Saturday
Six on Saturday – Walking through the Botanics
I dropped my son off in town this morning and while he got creative, on a writing course, I hared around town on a few errands, until it rained. Then I headed for the Fitzwilliam Museum for a wander and … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Six on Saturday, Trees
Tagged Cambridge Botanical Gardens, Cork Oak, Gardening, Gardens, Photography, Winter protection
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Six on Saturday – Back to Black
OK, so this might be an admission of burning the damson jam this morning. (Yes, it caught on the bottom of the pan. Don’t worry, it is nothing a good soak won’t fix!) But no, it is rather a reference … Continue reading
Six on Saturday – Ripe for the picking
21/09/2019 Well, what a glorious week that was! But it’s been cold in the mornings. The car said 4.5 deg C on Tuesday morning and the heating came on unexpectedly on Monday morning (since I hadn’t bothered to turn the … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Food, fruit, Six on Saturday
Tagged #SixOnSaturday, American Pokeweed, Canna indica, Caryopteris clandonensis, Gardening, Ivy bees, kiwi berries, Salvia uliginosa
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Six on Saturday – Summer’s Swansong
31/08/2019 We are in that time of abundance in the year where there’s still plenty to harvest, pick and admire, but there are also overtones of completion and change. As a former astronomer I hold with summer stretching on till … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Six on Saturday, Vegetables
Tagged Achocha, Figs, Gardening, Grasses, Lavatera trimestris 'Dwarf Pink Blush', Meadow flowers, Wood Aster
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Six on Saturday – Better than survivors
27/07/2019 Just down the road at Cambridge Botanical Gardens they were registering potentially record breaking temperatures of 38.7 deg C on Thursday. It was hot. I went in to work to water the borders early and called it a day … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Six on Saturday
Tagged #SixOnSaturday, Agapanthus, Didiscus caeruleus, Gardening, Gladiolus papilio 'Ruby', Photography, Pond plants
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Six on a Saturday – Cosmocracy!
Well, we’ve had a few dribs and drabs of rain recently and it seems to be cheering the plants up no end. The beans are romping up their canes (and not just the runners!), courgettes are swelling in nice quantities … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Six on Saturday, The home garden
Tagged Achocha, Agastache, Daisies, Gardening, Photography, Roses, vegetables
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Six on Saturday – Tangential to a Summer Solstice
If only we could keep going with these lovely long days. But it is already midsummer and by the time we reach my birthday in August I know that the nights will most definitely be drawing in, even though the … Continue reading
