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Six on Saturday – 8/1/2022

January 8, 2022Categories six on saturday31 Comments on Six on Saturday – 8/1/2022

We had one frosty night this week, then the rain rolled in again. It blackened some hydrangea leaves and Hedychium 'Tara' is looking less chipper, though still standing. As far as things happening, there really isn't anything new, what I put in last week is still true and this week's six could have been done…

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Six on Saturday – 5/6/2021

June 5, 2021Categories six on saturday25 Comments on Six on Saturday – 5/6/2021

It's all coming on apace now, making up for lost time. Everything is filling out and bare ground is disappearing; a good thing, I don't like bare ground. Lots of things are in bud, like peonies, dahlias and hydrangeas and it's tempting to include the promise of things to come but the things already happening…

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Six on Saturday – 27/2/2021

February 27, 2021Categories six on saturday29 Comments on Six on Saturday – 27/2/2021

The pace is picking up. The sun is shining, the flowery stuff is really starting to kick off. I've sowed more seeds, taken the first Fuchsia cuttings and finished chopping down all of last years dead herbaceous growth. In the autumn I sowed lettuce and potted them up in the greenhouse; we've had a couple…

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Six on Saturday – 26/12/2020

December 26, 2020Categories six on saturday40 Comments on Six on Saturday – 26/12/2020

I can't quite believe I just glanced down to check the date on the computer. Boxing day, Christmas all over for another year. I was thinking of doing a retrospective six but I've never felt less like looking backwards. In the moment then, happening now; meagre pickings on that front too. Not too meagre if…

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Six on Saturday -4/4/2020

April 4, 2020August 25, 2020Categories six on saturday30 Comments on Six on Saturday -4/4/2020

I considered doing my six as a video this week but having done so for the RCM group on Thursday wasn't ready to repeat the performance. Does anyone know a simple way to get video from an iPhone onto a Windows PC? I managed, but what a performance. (I tried again and succeeded, it doesn't…

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Six on Saturday – 21/3/2020

March 21, 2020August 27, 2020Categories six on saturday42 Comments on Six on Saturday – 21/3/2020

I am just so thankful that I have a decent sized garden to keep me occupied, distracted, isolated and sane. It's all been said, I'll move on. If there's one thing in the garden that will lift your spirits it's flowers and by good fortune the weather has taken a turn for the better this…

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Six on Saturday -7/3/2020

March 7, 2020September 28, 2020Categories six on saturday25 Comments on Six on Saturday -7/3/2020

It's not for improving, this weather. Looks like the week after next might be better. I'm clutching at straws. One. Right, let's get this one of my chest. On Monday I went to my local garden club and someone had brought along Daffodil 'Rapture' for the flower competition we have. Last year I planted five…

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New decade, new day

January 1, 2020August 27, 2020Categories Uncategorized7 Comments on New decade, new day

There are odds and ends of things flowering in the garden. Some are in their normal flowering season, most are aberrations, an odd very late or very early bloom, usually very tatty. I'd hoped for Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' but it wasn't to be. There are buds still but they're not opening. Makes you wonder what…

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