SixOnSaturday

We continue our blue-blooded descent into Autumn , with insensate absolved nights and warm days , but today it is beautiful conditions .   I have not yet had any Robert Frost , that typically waits till mid - October round here , but it has been cold enough to keep the greenhouse door close overnight and some fleece cover has gone on some of the veggie .   # 1 Child was deposited safely at University in Nottingham last weekend . I ’d like to say it was an emotional farewell but really , he could n’t expect to get rid of us !   Such is life .   Anyhow , metre for Six on Saturday – Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything – a heyday , a tool , a design , a failure , a pest , leafage , a finis - up , anything at all . unite in !

Here are my Six for this week .

1 – Seedheads , Cosmos sulphureous – I pick these off the plants after some pelting last weekend and exit in the shed to dry . On review yesterday , they had dried out nicely and opened out . Each of the dark spiky article adhere out of the seedhead is the end of a semen . They either drop out , or can be still out with a gentle tugboat . The one on the right wing has been stripped of seeds . I will have plenty of seed for me next year and will send the rest off to the Hardy Plant Society seed scheme .

2 – Dahlia , ‘ Bishops Children ’ . In my straits , the name for this flower is always go with by a parenthetic “ naughty Bishop ” . I grew these from seed a yoke of years back , this is their third summer in the reason .   I must produce some dissimilar Dahlia pinnata from come , these were very easy . They get to knee high , in several colour ranging from yellow through orange , crimson and purple .

3 – Geranium ‘ Hunter ’ – One of several hardy geranium I purchase in a recent rescue bench purchase . It is popping up the occasional last flower . I need to line up somewhere to plant it and its friends . Judging by my recentsurvey of the margin , I should have plenty of places for it .

4 – Nicotiana sylvestris ( again … ) – I develop these from seed last year and decided I did n’t care them . I clearly did n’t clear them or deadhead effectively , I have some that have ego - sow . I did n’t wiretap them when small-scale as I had plant some angelica nearby and assumed that ’s what they were . In fact they are strangle the angelica , so they will be slay . Maybe after they have finish efflorescence .

5 – Polystichum neolobatum , Asian Sabre Fern .   One of 15 I bought originally this year . It is pocket-sized now , but should get to 60 cm finally . It is hardy and evergreen , so should form a lasting feature film in the top tier of the living rampart where it now lives .

6 – Crocus bulbs . The autumn bulb frenzy has begun . I have taken delivery of some tulips , Anemone quinquefolia and these crocuses ( croci ? ) . They are a miscellaneous udder of 100 that I will scatter liberally in select areas of the garden . I ’m not sure precisely where – some may go under the lawn , some in pot , some at the edge of moulding .   The snowdrops and crocus want to go in before it baffle too cold , this weekend maybe ; the tulips will wait until November .   I do n’t have any crocus or Anemone quinquefolia in my garden , so this is the start of something that I ’ll develop over the years .

Have a mythic weekend , proficient destiny with your horticulture to - do leaning , and do n’t forget to check over back in during the twenty-four hour period as more links get add .

I ’ll be back next weekend with another # SixOnSaturday .

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