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Category Archives: Six on Saturday
Six on Saturday – All that sparkles …
Now -6°C is a bit of a shock to the system, after months of double digits! In the bits of the garden that haven’t seen the sun (or admittedly fantastic blue skies) the frost is building up into rather beautiful … Continue reading
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Tagged #SixOnSaturday, Berkheya purpurea, Erigeron karvinskianus, Frost, Gardening, Ice crystals, Oca, sub zero temperatures
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Six on Saturday – A rather blustery week
It is certainly autumnal here. I’m looking out at blue sky just now, but we have had a full gamut of weather over the week, from stormy downpours with high winds to clear skies and cold nights. So clear that … Continue reading
Six on Saturday – Signs of desperate wildlife
03/09/2022 While I can no longer go on about months without rain, because last Thursday we did in fact have steady rain for a few hours, we have not seen any since and the ground is still solid. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged #SixOnSaturday, Coleus Campfire, Ipomoea 'Split Personality', Lobelia, Six on Saturday
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Six on Saturday – Caught in the Act!
13/08/2022 A quick Six today, before I melt away. The vegetables are watered and I’ve gathered more courgettes 🤣. Yesterday I put a help-yourself pile of them out on a table by the hedge. They were all gone next time … Continue reading
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Tagged Bidens, crested poppy, Dahlias, Gardening, oregano, phlox, Six on Saturday
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Six on Saturday – Gasping
06/08/2022 A lot of us are suffering from the same lack of rain, but the East of England seems to be getting a rather short straw as usual. We’ve had nothing here, other than the briefest of showers, since April. … Continue reading
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Tagged #SixOnSaturday, Bird baths, Cobaea scandens, Eupatorium, Gardening, Kohl Rabi, pomegranates, Six on Saturday, Verbena hastata, Wildlife
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Six on Saturday – Cool flower spikes for a hot summer
09/07/2022 Last week I looked around the garden for plants with flower spikes at the hot end of the colour spectrum, so it is only fair to look to the cool end this week. Once again there were many candidates, … Continue reading
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Tagged #SixOnSaturday, Agastache 'Blue Boa', Gardening, Plants with flowering spikes
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Six on Saturday – Hot flower spikes for midsummer
It’s got to the time of year where I find myself having to continuously empty my shoes of grass seed and brush my T-shirts down to clear off the cleavers’ seedballs. I never get them all at one go, so … Continue reading
Six on Saturday – Pretty little things
18/06/2022 Temperatures have dropped dramatically since yesterday I am pleased to say. (I start to droop, along with the plants, when the mercury reaches 25°C.) This morning it’s possible to work, so I’ve finished planting out the climbing beans, so … Continue reading
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Tagged #SixOnSaturday, Gardening, Rose 'Queen of Sweden', Six on Saturday
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Six on Saturday – 04/06/2022
June doesn’t seem to have realised that it’s Summertime yet! It’s already been, alternately, freezing (well not quite, but down to 3°C), shockingly windy and showery, between bouts of lovely sunshine. Tomorrow is predicted to be very wet, with early … Continue reading
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Tagged astrantia, broadbeans, compost, Dianthus 'Mrs Sinkins', Gardening, Poppies
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