SixOnSaturday

So it begins . With freeze two or three nights this workweek , the ship’s boat hooey is done for . The dahlia are char , the tagetes are shrivelled and the old maid flower have impart up the ghost . That ’s that then , flowers will be few and far between until the snowdrops and crocus . Oh , and the nerines , of which more later . Sigh . Anyhow , time for Six on Saturday – six things in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything , a flower , a pest , a prick , an interesting leaf or flora , a harvest , a success or a loser – anything at all . Join in !

Here are my Six for this week .

1 – Rose hip . A bloom I clearly missed with the short - head snips . This is one of my new rosebush . It has been biding its time this year , I am hoping for better thing from it next class .

2 – A fungi to be with . I ’ve no idea what variety this is , whether it is toxic or delicious . I do n’t really do mushrooms . Still , I was surprised to line up this one , bold as boldness , in a second of bare land on the other side of my front rampart .

3 – Nerine bowdenii . Jim , of this parish , broadcast the bulbs to me early this year . I was afraid that having get the injury of the postal system added to the insult of being disinter , they might not flower this year . While some have not , probably more owing to posture than sulking , some have . The flowers are slenderly disorderly in form , but I ’ll take it just now .

4 – Zombie Zinnia . This is the undead remains of a Queen Red Lime that I grew from seed this year . I should pull them up and charge them to the compost array .

5 – Continuing the theme of gradual disintegration , these are the hop , so green and riotous when featured only a topic of hebdomad ago . These are a fuggles type record hop so in theory I could use them to brew beer , but I am currently in the mode of life being too brusk to brew my own . One day perhaps .

6 – Sweet Peas . On a more forward-moving look , positive note , these are next year ’s sweet pea . I sowed them two or three weeks ago , five or six seminal fluid per 1L pot . They come up a kickshaw and no meeces so far . Last weekend they go into the inhuman flesh where they shall stay until I plant them out in March . Your sweet pea , if sown in the autumn , needs treating mean . They not only tolerate a bit of cold , they need it . When the stem are a few inches eminent I shall vellicate out the growing tips to encourage side shoots and finally more flowers . This is my 2d twelvemonth mature sweet pea plant . Last yr I ended up with a somewhat random pick based on whatever was available in the end - of - season semen sale . This twelvemonth there has been an element of that too , but I have also bought some from a specialist sweet pea plant merchandiser . I have too many to grow on the veg plot of ground , so I will be looking for place to grow them in the borders . What could possibly go faulty …

Have a fabulous gardening weekend , do n’t block to check back in as more links get added during the day .

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

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