Six on Saturday. 15.6.2024

Not much was done this week in the garden as rain stopped play! Mostly it was showers but then Thursday it was raining all day long and yesterday wasn’t much better. However the plants just keep on flowering and I manage to keep on photographing them, in between the showers! Still more roses to show you and one or two others.

Peony Sarah Bernhardt is having her moment of glory but she was bent double with the rain on Thursday, not looking too bad today.

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Six on Saturday. 8.6.2024

We have had a dry week with just a few odd showers, quite a bit of sunshine and very cold wind. I think I’ve noticed the cold wind more than the plants, they seem to be coping very well indeed. Amongst all the other flowers that are blooming away, the stand out plants at the moment are all the roses, it is roses, roses everywhere, so that is where my six for this week will come from. Most of them are David Austin roses and they are all in the part of the garden which is between the house and the garage, all with hardy geraniums as ground cover.

Rosa Sharifa Asma is my first one, a beautiful rose with a fantastic scent.

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Six on Saturday. 1.6.24

On the whole, not a bad week weatherwise, apart from Monday, and the promise of more good weather to come, I shall look forward to that. Everything is growing at such a fast rate, I can’t keep up with it all, especially the weeds. Once again so many flowers to photograph, then the question of which 6 to use, here are mine for this week.

I’ll start with the first of the Great Spotted woodpecker’s youngsters. For a couple of days I saw the father feeding his youngster down on the lawn, they were finding plenty to eat, I think they must have found some ants. However it hasn’t taken the youngster long to work out how to use the peanut feeder, don’t worry I have filled it up!

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Six on Saturday. 25.5.2024

Another week of mixed weather, a bit of everything in fact, including thunder and lightning and the flowers keep coming, no matter what. I have managed a bit of gardening most days, but the weeds are still winning at the moment, I have to be very careful how I take my photographs! Time now for Six or so on Saturday.

Roses are now starting to flower, they are all looking good with lots of buds to come. This one is Charlotte from the David Austin stable, a lovely rose with a beautiful perfume.

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Six on Saturday. 18.5.2024

The week started last Monday with torrential rain which lasted all day, so more flooding! Since then though it has been sunny with just the odd shower for the rest of the week and similar forecast for the weekend. Not much work has been done as the ground has been so wet and soggy, I’ll have to try and catch up sometime. In the meantime I’ve taken lots of photos so now will have to decide which six to put on my post.

Primula vialii which is a recent replacement for one that I had years ago but lost as I didn’t split it when I should. The books say they need splitting after 2 or 3 yrs and I didn’t, eventually one year they just didn’t appear any more, so this time I must pay more attention to what I should be doing.

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Six on Saturday. 11.5.2024.

We have had week of sunshine with just the odd shower thrown in, it has been wonderful, such a change! I’m having to get used to getting the watering can out as I can’t rely on the weather for watering my pots any more. Plants are flowering faster than I can keep up with them so I’m spoilt for choice for this weeks six.

Viburnum opulus Roseum by the field, which has its snowball shaped flowers. I’m not sure why it has Roseum in its name, for some reason I would expect that to mean it would be pink, maybe someone can tell me.

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Six on Saturday. 4.5.2024.

Another week with torrential rain and more flooding, when is it all going to end? We have had a fair amount of sunshine as well though, but usually accompanied by very cold winds. Plants are flowering as usual, they don’t seem to mind the weather. We are almost into rhododendron time, lots of fat buds waiting in the wings. Time now for this weeks six.

Rhododendron in the back border, now starting to flower, this is the one which tried flowering for Christmas and then decided to wait for the correct time of year.

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Six on Saturday. 27.4.2024

A quick one this week as I’m not at home, will catch up with you all hopefully tomorrow. We are back to cold and rain, today at midday it was only +5C but I have managed to do a bit of gardening each day this last week, it was so lovely to be out in the fresh air and sunshine once more, working in the garden.

Small Rhododendron Princess Anne, is now in flower on the rockery. She is very well behaved and is staying nice and compact!

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Six on Saturday. 20.4.2024.

We have had a dry week! I can’t remember the last time this happened, but it has been wonderful to get out into the garden and do some work at last in the warm, if not hot sunshine, warm enought to discard a jumper and work in a T shirt most days, as long as I was out of the wind! I had planned what to photograph for this weeks six, but as you will find out, the plants had other ideas! On with my six…………..

The bright pink Azalea on the rockery is grabbing attention at the moment, you can’t miss it!

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Six on Saturday. 13.4.2024

Dare I say it, three days of sunshine and no rain, it is wonderful! I have been gardening without a coat and was almost tempted to remove my jumper and just wear a T shirt but thought no, it is only April after all, it was so warm though. I’m obviously hoping that the grass will get cut on Wednesday when the gardener comes, it is so long now and looks as though it is all a meadow! We have rain forecast for Monday, but after that it should be dry for the next week, I’ll have to get the watering can out for my pots, I’ve been relying on the rain to keep them watered!  Time for Six on Saturday………..

To start with, we had a wonderful sunrise on Wednesday morning, but as the saying goes………

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