SixOnSaturday

I enjoyed my airstream last weekend , a 50 klick jaunt along the Ridgeway track . Although I was carrying a minute of an achilles injury , I seem to have become someone that can knock out a 50k of a morning without fuss . As suspected , I did n’t get an fearsome circumstances of horticulture done afterwards , my good afternoon being mainly sofa - bound . This weekend ’s gardening will also be curtailed , we are off to a music festival on Sunday , annual outing for us for 7 or 8 years now . Last year ’s was cancelled cos Covid , so we ’re looking forward to spending the good afternoon and even sunning ourselves in our deck chairman , all daylight picnic on the go . Oh and there will be some music too . Anyhow , time for Six on Saturday . What ’s that , I hear you say ? Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything , a flower , a pestilence , wildlife , a job to do , a labor , anything at all . unite in !

Here are my Six for this calendar week .

1 – Penstemon ‘ Plum Jerkum ’ . One of a dozen different penstemon I buy last yr as teeny plugs . Several did not outlive my neglect but some did , include plummy j here . I have let around to planting it out , it is sitting in some freshly useable ground in the border I dug for my Modern genus Malus tree . Good time value , penstemons , if they can be nursed through the winter . Lots of flower , and of increase importance to me , the slug and snails are not in particular interested . I commonly pull up stakes them unpruned over winter , usually enough to protect the crown from frost , cutting them back only when spring come and the worst of the weather is past .

2 – Potentilla fruticosa . An SoS regular , I ’ve had this bush for long time . I only pruned it a few calendar week ago , having draw a blank to do it at the normal clock time . It looked quite sad with great deal of straggly brown growth . I gave it the roughest of haircuts , just with the secateurs , but it seems to have react well with batch of pallid yellow flower . I ’m fond of the burn centres . No fragrance to talk of , sadly , but it ’s a respectable do - er and will blossom all summertime .

3 – genus Hypericum ‘ charming Universe ’ . Another bush , also evergreen , it does n’t flower as long as the potentilla but does bear glisten red yield . It roots rather well from cutting , I have a duo in the front garden as well now that have grow very nicely .

4 – Geranium , obviously , no idea which , answer on a postcard . This could be a buy plant , or it could be one I ’ve grown from industrial plant club seeds . It ’s a fleck of a sprawler , but the flowers are rather lovely , and surely not unsure and go to bed .

5 – Lychnis coranaria . Your canonical magenta model , which self seeds prolifically if one is not on the case with the deadheading . I seldom am , so I have a lot of them ! They seedlings are rather comfortable to blot , to be compost or potted on and palmed off on the unsuspicious , or just leave to uprise . A scant lived flora , they need exchange every few years anyway . I would n’t be without it , which is a honest thing , I ’m never likely to get rid of it completely .

6 – Geranium ‘ Pink Delight ’ . acquire as a small industrial plant a duo of years ago under the HPS conservation schema , this one is shew and growing nicely now . go up to its charge , it is both pink and delightful . I do like a audacious geranium . I have n’t met one yet that I did n’t care at least a little bit .

We are forecast endearing weather this weekend , possibly even on the too hot side of hot , too hot for much gardening , anyway . If I do nothing else , I must wrestle with bindweed , and I must set up the watering system of rules . If I also mow and edge the lawn , and sort out out plants that will postulate deal tearing while we ’re forth , then I ’ll be happy . Oh , and the roses need a feed and a dependable deadheading . Er , and the virginia tree creeper needs taming . I could go on , and on , and on . It ’s never ending .

I hope you have a relaxing and productive horticulture weekend , do n’t forget to bulge back afterwards as more links get add during the day .

Stay safe , I ’ll be back next weekend for another # SixOnSaturday .

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