Long Mizzle Garden

Good morning, and what a beautiful one it is too. As it looked to be another scorcher, I opened the greenhouse door before 8am (already at 30 C), spot checked the overnight slug damage to the sunflowers, brought down the big watering can full of last night’s shower water run-off and watered the patio plants. Then I got straight on to cutting flowers and deadheading spent ones.   The red and ‘totally tangerine’ dahlias are looking great, but all the white cactus ones are annoyingly being nibbled. I cut every single sweet pea flower I could find, being careful not to disturb the silvery spider webs.      [Sweet Peas]   For filler I picked fennel and feather top grass, but as the Oregano is past its best, I am today trying the evergreen foliage of Photinia red robin.    [Feather top grass and Fennel growing by the willow arch]   A total of six jam jars were filled and placed in our cool north facing kitchen, ready for arranging later....

Hello and welcome to Long Mizzle, [Pink cosmos, cannas, blue agapanthus] Our Cornish garden did not always have a name.  For seven years it had just been known as 'the garden'. Then towards the end of June 2020, our littlest sprog & I tipped out some potatoes that had been planted in bags on March 23rd, the start of lockdown. We rinsed and dried them, marvelled at the 'world's smallest potato' (this is a game we often like to play), popped the most sensible sized ones into a brown paper bag, labelled it 'new potatoes from Long Mizzle Garden - grown in seaweed from Swanpool' and handed them to my dad for his birthday.  [Pink cosmos, cannas, blue agapanthus] Well, my mam just loved how the name co-incidentally sounded like Monty Don's 'Long Meadow' ...because, you know, I hadn't thought of that name play at all, being a massive Gardener's World fan!!! ;) For those not familiar with the word 'mizzle' - it is a lovely light ra...