Another week has flown by and it's time for another six. I found myself in the luxurious position of having too many things to include. Hope you like the six that made the cut. One. Cyrtanthus elatus 'Pink Diamond'. Scarborough Lily. A very accomodating bulb that grows well in our north facing conservatory, though I…
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Six on Saturday – 12/8/2017
There's an abundance of bloom in my garden now so I've gone with six flowery items. One. Agapanthus 'Windsor Grey'. Our Agapanthus haven't excelled this year, with less flower spikes lasting for a shorter than usual time. This one is flowering for the first time and I don't recall planting it. Just one spike which I've pictured…
Six on Saturday – 5/8/2017
Dahlias and Japanese anemones are definitely flowers of the second half of summer. I'm impatient for them to start flowering, then depressed when they do. One. Dahlia 'Orange Cushion'. There is not the remotest possibility of this dahlia ever being mistaken for nearly red or nearly yellow. It's a bang down the middle orange. I've…
Six on Saturday – 29/7/2017
I am very much enjoying this weekly glimpse into other people's gardens. This week I have included one item that is not a flower or plant, trying to put myself in the position of visiting a garden open for the NGS and wanting to look at everything. Don't worry, it's not my shed; if I…
Six on Saturday – 22/7/2014
It's the height of summer, there are flowers everywhere. Come winter, it'll be hard to keep this meme going as there'll be so much less going on. At least there'll be the foliage plants to fall back on. When I worked on a nursery customers would come in wanting to know what a plant they'd…
Six on Saturday – 15-7-2017
One. So much in flower, picking six becomes difficult. OK, a bit of lumping together: Dahlias, I grow a few, but then again... Such flamboyance, such joie de vivre. Dahlias, especially en masse, have an unrivalled capacity for putting smiles on peoples faces, even mine. Some I leave in, some I lift, then put back…
Six on Saturday – 8-7-2017
I had the bright idea of doing six plants that were self-sowing volunteers in the garden but quickly realised that I have four or five times that number, some more welcome than others. I'll mention a couple. One. Papaver atlanticum pops up where it pleases, producing a flat rosette of grey leaves then putting up…
Six on Saturday- 1/7/17
We drove up to Marwood Hill Garden in North Devon today, then on to RHS Rosemoor. So many plants, so little space! Marwood have a National Collection of Astilbes and there are pots of most of them in their plant centre. To come away empty handed would be plain rude. One. Is the box of…
Six on Saturday – 24/6/2017
One. Euphorbia lathyrus. This is an annual that seems to pop up in our garden somewhere most years. It has numerous common names, caper spurge being one of the best known but it is also known as mole plant because it supposedly deters moles. Well, I am going to try and collect seed from this…
Six on Saturday: 17/6/2017
One. We're not very good at keeping these going after the first season, so this second year performance is a bonus. Hippeastrum, no idea on variety. Two. Dianthus deltoides is something of a rediscovery for me, after about a 55 year gap. I remember growing it as a child and have come back to it…
