It’s been pretty windy out during the week, but I haven’t lost anything and all the tall plants are still upright, if leaning a little drunkenly in some cases. Time for another Six on Saturday. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything – a job to do, a completed project, a weed, a pest, a good flower, a favourite plant – anything at all, so long as it’s in your garden now! Why not join in? All the best people do!
Here are my Six for this week.
1. Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’. One of my recent bargain plant purchases, I bought three of these for a fraction of the sticker price at my local garden centre. Bit annoyed to realise later that just one of them would have nicely divided into three good size plants, but never mind. I recently planted these out , they are occupying a corner plot and are flowering a little bit. I mainly like them for the purple-bronze foliage, which is semi-evergreen, the flowers are a bonus.
2. Dahlia ‘Black Jack’. This has been a late bloomer. It is one of three new tubers I bought this year, this is its first flower. I planted it out in the front garden nearly three months ago, it has really leapt forward growth-wise in the last two or three weeks. I must remember to feed it this weekend. I almost didn’t see it against the relatively dark background as I went to work the other day. Up close I think it looks pretty special. It’s not really black, of course, but very dark purple.
3. Bulbs. I’m not hugely looking forward to planting the bulbs, but I have a pile to do. Some are from previous years, removed from pots or otherwise dug up, stored for the dormant season, probably 100 or so in total, plus another 150-odd newly ordered this year. There are daffs, tulips and I also have 75 allium bulbs to plant, 5 different varieties. I have a few alliums in the ground already but wanted more of a display. The alliums I think I will plant out in October, the tulips can wait until November. I need to think about a planting plan for them. For the tulips, I have half an idea to plant up then bury pots in the borders so that they can be removed easily when the flowers are done. Sure I’ve read that somewhere. That might be worth a separate post at some point. Whilst it’s a bit of a faff to plant them out, the results are well worth it, and no doubt they will feature in spring editions of Six on Saturday!
4. Aster ‘Little Carlow’. The powers that be have re-classified this fella so it is now supposed to be called Symphotrichum ‘Little Carlow’. I think we’ll be calling them asters for a generation or two yet. I got these at a plant fair back in May. I have two clumps, one in Border 4 and one in Border 5. They are beginning to get into their stride, flower-wise. It should flower through October, and tolerates a bit of shade. I need to do a better job of supporting it next year, it’s flopping about a bit. I must find out if I can propagate by means other than division…
5. Tiarella ‘Pink Skyrocket’. I’ve not grown tiarella, or foam flower, before, so I don’t know how well this will do in my garden. The flower spikes are done for this year, but as the cultivar name suggests they are long stems of pink flowers. The foliage is attractive in its own right, and as a bonus is more or less evergreen. It’s allegedly happiest in a bit of shade, I hope it’s not too sunny where I have it.
6. Greenhouse tap. This still feels like a luxury item to me. I fitted it earlier in the year, it makes me smile every time I fill up a watering can without having to trudge all the way up to the outside tap by the house. The trigger to install was seeing a Sarah Raven video clip about dahlia cuttings, in which she oh-so-casually reached about a foot to the right and filled a ‘can. I lost interest in the cuttings advice (temporarily, naturally) and immediately set to work figuring out how to make the tap happen. I would not want to be without it now.
That’s my Six for this week, what about yours? If you’d like to join the many other fabulous contributors, please just add a comment to this post with a link to your post, and maybe a link back to this blog in yours. I love nosing around other people’s gardens and look forward immensely to reading the other Six posts each week.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, don’t forget to check back to see the other Sixes as they get added.
I’ll be back next week with another set of Six.
I’m late leaving a link to my Six. Here it is, http://wp.me/p97pee-3m I hope you enjoy the post.
Does that link even work? H-E-L-P
Love reading everyone’s sixes. Might be busy next week but back again soon.
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It works, well done.
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I love Aster ‘Little Carlow’, I have it here, bought originally from the lovely Carol Klein’s nursery not far from where we live now, it spent many years in Yorkshire, then I moved a pot-full down to Devon with us. And your Dahlia ‘Black Jack’ is just stunning. I have posted my Saturday Six on my Facebook page and I hope that this link works! https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=115321272493912&id=100020481184500
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Yep that link worked perfectly. I was beginning to fear you were a one-hit wonder, glad to see you back! I am fast getting a thing for dahlias. Must have a look through the catalog and choose a few new ones for next year.
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No, I hope to do this on a regular basis, travelling and broadband permitting. It is a great blog to be involved with. Dahlias, like salvias, can become compulsive!
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Oh, and pelargoniums, too.
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This is my first visit to Six on Saturday. My photography skills are not great, but I will try to join you today. I garden in British Columbia. I too enjoy Heuchera, bulbs, Little Carlaw and Tiarellas. In my case I grow Tiarella Spring Symphony as well as native ones. I am awaiting a new water tap as well! LOL!
This week’s favourites include the following: Thalictrum splendide, Gentian true blue, perennial Fuchsia ‘hawkshead’, Oakleaf Hydrangeas, Herrenhausen Oregono(beautiful burgundy blooms), and Persicaria firetail.
This is my lates blog post: https://fromourisland.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/mid-september-in-the-garden/
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Howdy! Photos look great, no bother there, although you have more like Sixty there than Six! Lovely to see more plants from parts foreign. See you next week with another Six(ty)?
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I was going to change it to six…but that was work! So I’ll follow the rules next time!
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Just did the change: https://fromourisland.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/six-on-saturday/
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Thanks, you didn’t need to do that, rules is for school, and i dont know about you but I’m well past school now! I’m going to have a look now and see what you edited it down to. Hope to see you again with your next Six. We know you have plenty of plants, so no excuses!
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Just in time! Here are my six this week: https://www.parabola.me.uk/blog/2017/Sep/six-on-saturday-16th-sep/
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That’s cutting it fine! Good work.
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I planted a few colchicums this week and have a couple of Lycoris bulbs to drop in the ground later today, but most of my bulbs for this year haven’t arrived yet. It’s getting to the point where bulb planting in autumn is a risky business, because I can never quite remember where dormant spring bulbs are already lurking. There’s nothing worse than digging into a bed and hearing a sickening crunch.
My six are here: https://sweetgumandpines.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/six-on-saturday-10/
Mostly seeds and berries this week.
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Yes that is hazard. I think I know where the existing alliums are and I don’t have any tulips in the ground. All of last year’s tulips were in containers. I plan to plant those out in the ground and the new ones into pots and containers. Thats the theory.
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You have 250 bulbs to plant? Yikes! I often plant tulips in pots. It makes it a little more difficult for the squirrels to dig them up. As for Six on Saturday, I will probably always be late to this party, given the time difference, but here’s my contribution: https://thepaintinggardener.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/six-on-saturday-9-16/.
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Yeah, it sounds bad but I’ll spread it out over a few weeks. My soil is easy to dig so shouldn’t be too difficult to plant out. We shall see…
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I love that dahlia! Straight onto the list. Here is my contribution. Hope you enjoy it. https://offtheedgegardening.com/2017/09/16/six-on-saturday-the-nearlys/
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Here are my Six http://londoncottagegarden.com/six-on-a-saturday/
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That’s it! I deleted your other comment as the link was to my blog.
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thank you so much. it drives me mad when I can’t work out the simplest thing. Grrrrrr
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Too early for bulbs here..still winding up summer.
Here’s my six- http://bit.ly/2fqsuSc
Thanks for hosting this and have a great weekend!
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Welcome! Thanks for joining in and giving us a glimpse into your Indian garden. Hope to see you next week!
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Like you, I have a pile of bulbs to deal with. And a very late dahlia. And a tap that I put in at the far end of the garden. It’s why I look forward to SweetgumandPines’s six each week. And I had Little Carlow, but it died.
My six for this week is here: https://gardenruminations.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/six-on-saturday-1692017/
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Are you saying my garden’s boring? Fighting talk… 😎
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What I like about this meme is how it simultaneously shows you how much and how little you have in common, garden-wise, with like-minded people the world over. Gardening travels better than tongue in cheek humour.
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I was merely pulling your leg, sorry, it is interesting how alike the UK posts can be. I also like reading the overseas posts, unfamiliar plants in unfamiliar conditions. See you next week!
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That’s a lot of bulbs. I have quite a few and am going to buy some more before I plant them all but it’s nothing to the amount you have by the sounds of it (though I haven’t actually counted them…) Anywhere here is my six: https://greenfingeredblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/6-jobs-for-the-autumn-garden.html
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Yes it feels like a lot. Maybe 250 in total. Eyes bigger than my garden. But they go in groups of 20 so it doesn’t take that long to plant actually. Pots are fast too. I’m trying to convince myself, can you tell?
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