Getting colder overnight, but no frost yet, so still a bit of flower power going on. The days are noticeably shorter – it is dark when I leave the house for work, dark when I get home again, so we’re in that period of the year when there’s still quite a bit to do in the garden but less opportunity to do it.
Still, there’s always the weekend, and it’s time for another Six on Saturday. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything, a job to do, a good flower, an interesting plant, a pest, a success, a failure, anything at all! Why not join in?
Here are my Six.
1. Pelargoniums. Just your basic pelly. Not very glamorous but very reliable. I fiddle about overwintering some, take cuttings, but in reality they can be had for pennies by the tray in the spring. I usually load up and treat them as annuals. I like the foliage almost as much as the flowers. Always room for pellies in my garden.
2. Hypericum, St John’s Wort. This is a shrub in the front garden. There aren’t many flowers left now but it’s not done yet, having flowered through the summer. It’s got big, I probably need to prune it back a bit. I have been calling this a spirea but on checking that’s nonsense. Definitely a hypericum, possibly ‘hidcote’.
3. Morning glory. What’s the story? A surprise entrant, these must have self seeded, I certainly haven’t sown any this year. Doubly surprised that they’re flowering now in October. I thought they were a summer plant? The centre of these flowers positively glows, it’s like there’s an LED light in the middle.
4. Rosa ‘danse de feu’. Not the first time this has featured but I’m impressed. It’s still flowering, has been for months. There has not been a single day in that period without at least one flower blooming, usually more. I think this will be it’s last hurrah for this year. I’ve another 4 of these climbers, last year’s hardwood cuttings, from which I will expect similar service next year.
5. Fuchsia. These live in a little planter down the side of the house. It’s a fairly shady spot but not shady enough to discourage these lads. The variety is lost to time. They look like they’ve died each winter, dead sticks, no sign of buds or anything, then they come back to life in the spring.
6. Seed tin. Full of promise for next year. It’s already groaning a bit at the seams but I expect there’ll be more to add. In fact I know there will, I will be putting my order in to the HPS seed exchange in a month or two. It’s just a metal box, nothing too fancy. It lives in the shed on top of the potting bench where it’s dry and fairly cool.
That’s my Six, what are yours? If you’d like to join in, just leave a comment below with a link to your post and maybe a link back to this blog in your post. For more details, see the participants guide. Don’t forget to check back in during the weekend as more links get added.
I’ll be back next Saturday with another Six.
I like all six, and have some in the garden including the seed tin, although it’s blue, it lives in a similar position.
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Am I the last? But I’m here with my six. Hope you have time to take a look. https://n20gardener.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/six-on-saturday-6
My Hypericum stopped flowering ages ago – not so much sun in my front garden.
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Yes, i believe you are tail-end charlie!
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Here are my six. Went a couple of miles down the road to photograph someone else’s garden today.
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No camera and no post this week, not sure if you would count photos taken some time ago, but I have enjoyed your post. I love the rose and would consider that when I (eventually) get the promised trellising put up! The Morning Glory is a real stunner, and I have several Fuchsias that overwinter in or out of the greenhouse, do impersonations of dead twigs in spring and then leap in to life. I may need an ‘excuse me’ note for another couple of weeks.
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We’ll let you off. I suppose. 😉
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I’ve only recently realized how very many varieties of Hypericum there are. Watch out for those morning glories, though – they can take over your garden in no time at all. Years ago, we were busted by the local weed police for allowing morning glory to grow on our back fence. My “Six on Saturday” for today is here: https://thepaintinggardener.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/six-on-saturday-october-7/ and thanks again for hosting.
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My six for the first week of October can be found here: https://fromourisland.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/six-on-saturday-october-7-2017/
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There being something of a gender divide in our garden, we have pelargoniums but I don’t regard them as mine to picture and spread around the interweb. Succulents the same. I get the outdoor stuff, plus the allotment. Fuchsias seem to have changed sides over the last few years, were very definitely hers, now mostly mine.
My six for this week are here: https://gardenruminations.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/six-on-saturday-7102017/
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Don’t currently have that issue. It’s all mine! Mine dyou hear? all mine!
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Do I detect a note of caution in your use of the word “currently”?
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Merely a caveat. The current Mrs J may change her mind at any stage, as is her wifely prerogative.
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Glad to see so much flowering in your garden. My tales of the week are a bit more trauma laden, but check them out for yourself- http://bit.ly/2hVkGvT
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I know you’re down souf and so a bit warmer, supposedly, but I’ve now finished lifting all my Pelargoniums (only flowers are on the cuttings in the greenhouse which have gone bananas). My roses are all pruned back for the winter. Hardy fuchsias have put themselves to bed, though the annuals still haven’t put their socks on yet. We’re still getting 12-14C overnight temps. It’s days that seem to be getting colder. Must pop out to find ont what’s happened to my Hypericum. Hasn’t flowered at all this year. Then some seed sowing methinks. Toodle pip.
Oh, and my six is over at https://rivendellgarden.blog/?p=2589.
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Yep still the summery end of autumn here. First cold snap will finish thst abruptly but for now, plenty of flowers.
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I’m a big fan of morning glory, but seldom grow it! Must correct that next year. That mystery guest is a beauty. Also the rose, I love that shade of red, beautiful. Here are my six, very early on parade this week! https://offtheedgegardening.com/2017/10/07/six-on-saturday-im-back/
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It’s a good rose. Happy in a shady spot. I need to prune and train it but will wait till she’s finished showing off.
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It would be wrong to cut her off in her prime!
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Good Saturday sir, doesn’t seem a week since the last one, I think someone’s got a time machine and speeding things up, great to see the Rose is still going well, who said roses where a June plant only! Always had a soft spot for morning glory but I always get the oasis song in my head! Here’s my little section for this week https://thomasdstone.blog/2017/10/07/six-on-saturday-71017/
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On pelargoniums: I could not live without the scented leaved varieties, they are bizarre and wonderful, with less showy but attractive flowers, but to rub the foliage and get such unexpected scents never stops amazing me. How do they smell of apples, lemon sherbet etc?I have loads, they’re all in pots and I bring them inside over winter, but also take cuttings every year to make sure I never run out. Anyway, my six this week are four things I’m doing and two I’m not: https://greenfingeredblog.blogspot.com/2017/10/six-things-garden-october.html
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