Six on Saturday 24. 7. 21

Posted on July 24, 2021 by Pauline

Having gone from one extreme to the other, from temperatures in the teens with rain every day, to temperatures soaring up to 30 C and even 31 C  this week, I have been melting away because I’m just not used to it. My plants aren’t used to such high temperatures either but they are coping much better than I am. Thank goodness this weekend will be cooler along with some very welcome rain!

My six for this week are as follows

no 1  Crocosmia Paul’s Best Yellow

I hopefully planted this in the driveway border, hoping it would flower the same time as the dark blue agapantgus, but they hardly ever coincide, this year is no different, the Agapanthus are still in tight bud, maybe by next Saturday!

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Six on Saturday 17.07.21

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Pauline

The rain has stopped and now we have a heatwave, from one extreme to the other! I hate to say it but it is too hot for me, I’m having to plan my gardening from very early when I get up and do my first gardening session in my pjs,  then after breakfast I have to be finished by 10am, after which it just gets far too hot to even think about working. Looking round the garden for 6 plants to feature, needless to say I started in the shade where I found Iris ensata, a Japanese iris, in the bog garden.

No 1    Iris ensata.

It is looking very happy in the shady bog garden, especially with all the rain we have had lately.

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Day lilies – the new bog plants

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Pauline

Where my garden keeps getting flooded is planted with rather a lot of Hemerocallis or Day Lilies. I hadn’t realised when I planted them many years ago, that they liked water so much. They spent most of the winter sitting with their roots in water and lately I seem to have been flooded regularly, almost every week, and they are looking very happy indeed! I also have lots planted in parts of the garden that don’t get flooded and they too seem very happy. I showed 3 varieties in my last post, but now most of the rest are flowering so here they are, but I have forgotten most of their names over the years.

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Six on Saturday 10.7.21

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Pauline

Once more the garden is changing gear, a lot of the poppies, iris and peonies, but not all,  have finished and are handing over to Hydrangeas, Hemerocallis and Crocosmia. The colours are changing with Hemerocallis and Crocosmia, their flowers are looking a lot hotter and I think the garden is trying to tell me that it is summer. We are not having summer temperatures and we are still having rain every day, so it doesn’t really feel like summer at the moment, but my bog plants are happy! The following photos are for my Six on Saturday post.

No 1 Chrysanthemum superbum

Chrysanthemum superbum Wirral Supreme, another plant that reminds me of home in the North West, I spent all my childhood years  on the Wirral.

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Looking a bit purple

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Pauline

While assessing how the newish planting in the rockery was doing, I realised that quite a few of the plants were in the purple spectrum and they all seemed to be in the centre of the rockery. I will have to have a think about what I can add anongst them.

All looking a bit purple.

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Six on Saturday 3.7.21

Posted on July 3, 2021 by Pauline

This week, for my Six on Saturday,  I’ll be concentrating on the roses that didn’t appear in my earlier rose post. Two  are huge ramblers, two are climbers and two are shrub roses that  didn’t wake up with the rest.

No 1. Rosa Wedding Day

R. Wedding Day was planted when my daughter got married and has grown up its support, an ash tree, part of it has been blown down again but most of it has climbed to the top.

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The June Meadow.

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Pauline

My circular meadow is coming along nicely, or I think so anyway. The grasses are growing, the buttercups and daisies are making a wall to wall carpet and other wild flowers are popping up. Some I have seen in previous years but one in particular has made its first appearance and it is looking very lovely indeed.

The view up the steps outside the back door.

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Six on Saturday. 26.06.21

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Pauline

This week I’ve tried to find six plants that haven’t been shown previously in a recent posts, it wasn’t easy! The wind and the rain that we had this last week have taken their toll and there has been a lot of cutting back and deadheading going on, however there is still a lot for me to enjoy.

No 1  Candelabra primula

Most of my first candelabra primulas are now starting to form seed, but this lilac/purple one has just started flowering, I know I’ll want to save seed of this one, it will look gorgeous with the peachy one.

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An abundance of roses everywhere.

Posted on June 22, 2021 by Pauline

Wherever I look at the moment, roses are flowering as never before, have they enjoyed our strange weather, I don’t know, but whatever it is that has made them flower so much, I’m very pleased with the result. Come for a wander with me round the garden and see how much colour they are providing  but how I wish you could smell all the wonderful perfume that I can.

Buff Beauty which I grew from a cutting of the one in the back garden, this one always flowers first.

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Six on Saturday 19.06.21

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Pauline

It’s time for P.I.Ps to take centre stage, or they can try but the roses outshine everything else at the moment. The P.I.Ps that I’m talking about are the poppies, iris and peonies that fill a gap which sometimes appear at this time of year, not this year though. They are glamorous but fleeting, loved all the more because they are so beautiful, but don’t stay very long in the garden.

Poppies

Papaver orientalis, this just appeared one year, I don’t remember buying it. Not a shrinking violet!

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