Six on Saturday! Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything; a project, fruit & veg, a good flower, a pest, anything at all. Why not join in?
Here are my Six for this week.
1 – Blueberries. I bought this little bush for a reduced price last year some time. I know that blueberries like a boggy setting so I have been watering it bigly. No fruit! I gather they also like an acidic soil. A good tip I heard is to shred the christmas tree as the pine needles provide a good hit of slightly acidic goodness to the soil, if used as a mulch. I imagine this only works with real trees, and best to remove the fairy lights first.
2 – tagetes. A sorry tale of neglect. I grew these from seed this year. I got as far as pricking them out, then to potting them on, but they’ve not made it beyond that and are still ekeing out a rather lonely and pathetic existence in the corner of the greenhouse. To quote the Orange One, #Sad.
3 – Dahlia ‘rebeccas world’. The photos of these flowers on the Nyessens website were highly enticing, yummy even, looked like you could eat it for pudding. In real life they’re not bad either (to look at… I haven’t eaten one!).
4 – phlox var unk. I liberated this plant from my mother’s garden after she foolishly agreed to let me dig a bit up. Her definition of “a bit” and mine were clearly different, she is still dischuffed about the size of my removal. I was able to divide my clump into two, and they are now flowering away.
5 – Gaillardia ‘celebration’. another bargain purchase. Original price £13, bought for £3. Who buys plants at £13 each? More money than sense. Gaillardia’s I’ve had before have been predominantly yellow, this one is emphatically red. It is currently parked in the cold-frame, the equivalent of the planes orbiting Heathrow, waiting for a landing slot.
6 – begonia ‘yukon frost’. These caught my eye as I was prowling the clearance section of my local garden centre. I like the silvery leaves, not sure if it will flower, or if it had already flowered. I’ll be happy with just the foliage. I have three of them, all in the same 30cm patio pot.
That’s it for another week! If you’d like to join in (and why wouldn’t you?) please just leave a comment below with a link to your post, and maybe add a link back to this blog in your post.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and don’t forget to check back in later to see if more links have been left.
I’ll be back next week for another Six.
Rebecca’s World is beautiful, could be one for next years list.
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Had to look up Tagetes, but I like that one and its bonus insect. Too good to be in a
corner or the greenhouse.
Here are my six, late as usual:
http://www.parabola.me.uk/blog/2017/Aug/six-on-saturday-19-aug/
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Yeah I think it’s just posh for marigolds. They’re heading for the compost I’m afraid. Might do some more next spring.
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Ha, yes, but I didn’t even recognise it as a marigold, so adding the single flowered forms to my list of things to investigate for next year.
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So many plants, so little time! Or space.
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I love that Gaillardia! I don’t ever grow them, perhaps I should give them a go next year. Anyway, here is my inaugural Six on Saturday, hope you enjoy it https://offtheedgegardening.com/2017/08/19/six-on-saturday/
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I’ve written the Six blog this week but have tried for two hours now to put a link on it to this meme – it is the first time I am using a MacBook and I just can’t work out how to put a link in – it is driving me mad. I won’t give up and didn’t want it to look like I had forgotten to link it.
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Easiest way is to view your blog post in a browser like a visitor to your blog would and copy the address, then you can just paste it in here.
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http://londoncottagegarden.com/six-self-seeders-on-a-saturday/
Here it is
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Here is the link in case you do t figure it out. http://londoncottagegarden.com/six-self-seeders-on-a-saturday/
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I’ve put a link to here onto my blog but a friend (teenager) is coming on Monday to teach me how to do it properly.
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Broadband’s playing up big time but I’ve made it. My six are at https://rivendellgarden.blog/?p=2473. I’ll try reading all the other contributions on the phone later.
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I tend to think of cranberries as bog plants, rather than blueberries, though acidity is definitely best for both. We saw lots of wild lowbush blueberries on our recent holiday and Maine. They tended to grow in shallow gravelly soil or in moss pads on granite slopes. Sometimes they were in small bogs trapped that formed in depressions on the granite, but always on slightly raised areas–so I’d saw, moist but well drained.
I haven’t seen highbush blueberries in the wild, but the cultivated plants around here seem to grow in gardens with regular drainage, as long as the soil is acidic — basically like azaleas.
Anyway, here are my six: https://sweetgumandpines.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/six-on-saturday-6/
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I meant “recent holiday IN Maine” and “bogs that formed in depressions on the granite.”
Stupid tiny keyboard…Morning caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet.
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Thankfor the blueberry tips. I must do some proper research. Or dig the damn thing up. I don’t even lile blueberries fhat much…
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I love the idea of liberating a plant from someone else’s garden. Am itching to get a fruit patch sorted here as well so will follow your blueberry project with interest.
Here’s my contribution.
https://homegrownheaven.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/six-on-saturday-19-08-2017/
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Blueberries do take a while to get going. Most of the usual varieties are partially self fertile, so they’re better with a pollinator. I inherited some fair sized pot grown bushes which are in my fruit cage. They were starving when planted but three years on we’ve had really good crops. Some plums, like Victoria, are self fertile.
My six are here: https://gardenruminations.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/six-on-saturday-1982017/
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That’s encouraging, my plum is definitely a Vic.
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Again some great choices, love the foliage on the begonias, I was tempted when I saw some at hardy’s plants during the week. Well here’s my 6, I hope you like them
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I’ve read that you need two Blueberries in order to get them to fruit as they need to pollinate each other. I have two growing in pots as my soil is too alkaline for them, they fruit well but the birds usually get the benefit!
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That might be it. Suspect I have a similar issue with plums. Just one bush.
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