SixOnSaturday

The last couple of nights there has been a definite chill in the air , harbinger of darker months to come , but lease ’s not go there just yet . It ’s still pleasant in the daylight , and still fairly ironical here , so much lacrimation still required – a nightly ritual . I have begun to investigate the cost of installing a right irrigation system that could cover the whole garden , veg secret plan and nursery . I dread to think how many hour of my life this yr have been spend pointing a hose at various part of the garden .

This holiday weekend my gardening activity will be accompanied by the bass thump and push disturbance from the Reading Festival which is a yoke of miles aside . If the wind is in the right field ( or wrong ) direction I can sometimes enjoin who is playing the master stage , but usually it is just a mush of indistinct disturbance . Various of the teens associated with the household just now are there , so being close by we shall no doubt have visitations from derelict and athirst teenagers , and the less hardy of them are not camping so will be come in at gawd - knows what time . Such merriment .

fourth dimension for Six on Saturday then . Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything , your pick – a flower , a tool , a completed project , a plan , a succeeder , a failure , a cuss , anything at all . connect in !

Here are my Six for this week .

1 – Midget althea . I grew these from semen this year , nursing just a few through the crazy status in the beginning this twelvemonth . I planted them out back in early July , not really expect them to do much till next year . The plants are about a foot tall now and look skillful and clean , no sign of rust . Somewhat to my surprise , one of them is flowering . It ’s not quite the full althea experience , the flowers being about 8 inches off the land . Still . They should grow to full hollyhockness next summertime .

2 – Persicaria x ‘ fat domino ’ . I always want this to be fats domino , but no , just the singular fat . Grown from come this year , these industrial plant should get to about 3 or 4 foot and have nice fat bloom spike , assuming they hail true to typewrite . At the minute the works are about 18″ marvellous and the blossom spikes are lank . Next year they should be better . Persicaria can be quite invasive , but this miscellanea is purportedly well behaved . Let ’s hope my mutt cum - grown issue contain themselves in like fashion .

3 – Choonya . Just your common - or - garden canonic petunia . I bought a bunch in tray to fill out some pots . Like the gazania last hebdomad I still have some knocking about in their tray search a scrap leggy . Bad nurseryman .

4 – Potentilla fruticosa . Loads of flowers this twelvemonth . This small shrub mind its own business in the quoin of one of the cheery borders . The flowers are a slight on the bland side , a wan yellowness , but perhaps my perceptiveness simply run to the gaudier final stage of the spectrum .

5 – Cyclamen . I always forget this picayune colony exists . It is tucked away under the scrappy lavender and usually I do n’t notice it till the prime are run and I can just see the leaf . This group has disseminate gradually to where it can get a bit more swooning . These slightly ropey looking efflorescence are in a niche between the trellis arch and the first compost bay tree . Despite limited igniter and competition from underweight grass , these seem to be holding their own quite nicely .

6 – Clematis ‘ The President ’ . Not orange , like a sure other president we could cite , but purple . I had one of these long time ago and it was well established and joyously rampant , bloom like mad for month on what is now the wisteria trellis . I killed it pit dead with some over - enthusiastic pruning , cutting it back well into the boneheaded wood . I bought this one earlier this year for a span of chew . It is in a planter down the side - back street but in effective cheer all 24-hour interval , and it seems to be doing pretty well . I was n’t expecting much this year but it has put on about a metre of growth and several flowers . If it develops into something close to its long - deadened namesake I shall be pretty felicitous .

Have a lovely weekend and for those in England & Wales , love the spare day ! Do n’t block to check over back in as more links are tot during the day .

I ’ll be back next week with another # SixOnSaturday

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