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clock time for this calendar week ’s edition of Six on Saturday . Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . It could be anything , a effective flower , interesting leaf , a success , a catastrophe , a project , anything at all . Why not join in ?
Here are my Six for this hebdomad .
1 – Veronica – Grown from seed this yr , I picked up the parcel of mixed colours for 10p in an end of season sale . Rude not to ! This one is a bluey - purple but I ’m expecting some in white , pink and blue as well . The plants were neglected a little once ab initio potted on so were stunted and leggy on planting out . They seem to be recover gamely enough and should be okay next year .
2 – Abelia grandiflora – This bush came to me as part of a bulk plant purchase over 10 long time ago when I first converted Border 5 into utile planting outer space – it was previously a note of conifer . I have not cut the bush in anything other than haphazard way but it does not seem too nark , although it ’s not a very orderly anatomy . It flowers from early July on , I ’d say it ’s about half way through , but ca n’t recall from this time last year . I ’ve get one solitary cutting which may or may not root . If it does , I may replace the parent shrub with its offspring . Failing that , some renovative pruning may be necessary over the winter .
3 – Monarda volt-ampere unk . – I grew these from seminal fluid this year . I ’ve imbed about 20 out into border 2 and another 7 or so out into the front garden . The blossom have a definite purple tinge to them , I was expect more like Bourgogne . Mind you , these were from a ejaculate telephone exchange rather than a works stock breeder , so some variant is to be expected .
4 – Helenium autumnale – I grew these from cum a span of years ago and divided the clump earlier this spring , get 30 - rummy plants which have now produce to a decent sizing . In typesetter’s case I did n’t have enough ( ! ) I also grow some from seed collected last year . I have two groups each in the front and back garden and still have 5 comely sized plants to go in somewhere . They are just beginning to flower now and I recollect they ’ll do well this twelvemonth . I hope they ’ll develop into telling mass displays next yr as they plant . I also covet a couple of other originally flowering helenium kind but have n’t vex my manus on any yet .
5 – Hart ’s tongue fern . I ’ve had this fern along with two or three others for just a distich , maybe three years . My preferent time for it is when it is unfurl earlier in the fountain , but it is looking good now too . It is in a fishy spot , getting a little crowd out by an get on clump of pheasant ’s tail smoke . I ’m kick the bucket to attempt to propagate this fern using the spores , come to a blog post near you presently .
6 – Dahlia ‘ caribbean phantasy ’ . Having grow some Dahlia pinnata from ejaculate last class , I doubled down and buy some Modern genus Tuber this yr with two objectives . first off , more dahlia ! Secondly , to get some film editing stuff which in spell leads to … more dahlias ! The first bloom took it ’s time give up but now there are three with more on the way . It ’s somewhat colorful ! My lesson for next year is to take more seriously their indigence to be hard staked , I ’ve lost a couple of stem to wind and sonorous rainfall , although the chief stem turn is for the most part inviolate .
That ’s my Six for this Saturday . What are yours ? If you ’d like to connect in then please just summate a comment below with a link to your situation , and perhaps admit a nexus back to this web access your mail . I love to show other bloggers Six posts , and I acknowledge the other contributor do too . Do n’t feel bind to commit to a weekly post – monthly , fortnightly or whatever is fine , although you may regain it habit-forming !
delight the rest of your weekend , I ’ll be back next workweek with another Six .
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