SixOnSaturday

Cue Cliff Richard , or peradventure The Young Ones , “ we ’re all going on a summer holiday ’ .   Yes , the tribe is off to the sunshine and kooky weather of Southern Scotland .   Or , more accurately , the overcast and showery Southern Scotland .   Sigh , the prognosis is not terribly encouraging .   Still , as a family we understandably need a once - a - decade reminder of why we normally go abroad .   More significantly , I have some pre - holiday tasks to do , include name things as dim-witted as possible for my inadequate neighbour , she of the holy watering can , who will be taking on the grave responsibility of keeping my tomatoes and other crucial plants alive .

Six on Saturday then , you know the drill . For more details please have a looking at theguide .

Here are my Six for this workweek .

1 – Crocosmia .   At some period over the last 9 months I bought two 3L pots of unknown crocosmia , for the princely sum of £ 1 each . One is this reddy - orangish colour , the other is more jaundiced . I institute them in what appear like flock of space , but they have been overwhelmed a little by neighbouring plants . I might move them by and by in the class .

2 – Gaura ‘ passionate pinko ’ . The parent plant bite the dust over the wintertime , but I have clipping late last yr , a few of which root well , resulting in three decent size of it plant . I will take indemnity cuttings again in a few weeks .

3 – Eurybia divaricata , blank wood aster .   I grow these from source last class . I vex one solitary flush last class . They have bulked up this twelvemonth and are just starting to flower copiously . They are glad in the refinement .

4 – Coreopsis .   An act of desparation , bought in a routine of a scare running to the garden center of attention . I had become confident that one of my border was take care very old-hat and a little bit empty . conceive “ Supermarket Sweep ” . In hindsight , I ’m not sure I like this flora very much , but I ’m going to give it a chance .

5 – Delphinium x ‘ Cupid ’ .   I develop these from seed this yr , the seed get along from the HPS seed scheme . I was not expecting them to bloom this year . I was also not expecting them to exist the slugs . Four of the five plants I put in the land have been munched to filth level . The 5th is scramble on gamely and has put on a comme il faut flush spike .

6 – Helenum ‘ Sahin ’s former Flowerer ’ .   It ’s a genus Helenium , and it flowers early . Job done .

relish your garden this weekend , do n’t bury to insure back in during the twenty-four hour period as more links get added .

I ’ll be back next weekend for a holiday Six on Saturday .

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