June already – would it depress you hugely to know that the nights will start to draw in just a few weeks from now? Quite enough of that, I think. I have been off work this week, and have been largely mucking about in the garden, a luxury. Lots of plants, both seed sown and bought, have been planted out. So why are there so many left? Waaagh! Time for Six on Saturday. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything – a tool, a job completed, a flower, a leaf, wildlife, a pest, a success, anything at all! Join in, do.
Here are my Six for this week
1 – Honesty seed pods. Still very much green, rather than the papery white of my childhood memory. I caught this one with the sun behind it. If I’m honest (pun intended), I would like to dig up the plants and put something else there, but I suppose I should leave it to set seed properly.
2 – Hosta ‘June’. I bought a few hostas at the plant fair last week. Very restrained, I was, coming back as I did with fewer plants than I took. This one looks like it has been designed by a camouflage manufacturer.
3 – Rodgersia flowers. I grow these for the foliage really, but I am surprised by the flowers every year. Sort of anonymous from a distance, but close up they are quite something. I suppose I am not their target audience, something more bee-like is what they have in mind.
4 – Allium ‘nigrum’. A departure from the usual hues of purple, this one is white. More a flattish dome than a sphere. Not my favourite, but it’s a keeper.
5 – Kolkwitzia, or beauty bush. Or at least I think that’s what it is. Another borrowing from my neighbour, who has considerately allowed her shrub to flower over the fence. It has nearly finished, but not quite.
6 – Dianthus ‘Brilliancy’. It’s been a long time coming, but here they are. I sowed seed in autumn 2016, had zillions of them, potted up 80 or so I think. I planted them all out last spring, they did nothing much, then this year they are going loco, forming a dense thicket wherever they were put. They are about 25cm tall, and have begun to flower profusely in a demure shade of shocking pink. When they are all out it will be quite a sight.
Those are my Six, what are yours? If you are contemplating joining in, contemplate no longer, it’s very straightforward. Write your post, tweet, facebook or instagram thing, then stick a link to it below in the comments. If you also give a link back to this blog in your post that would be fab. You can read more details in the brief participant guide.
Have a fantastic June weekend, not forgetting to check back in as more links get added.
I’ll be back next weekend with another Six on Saturday.
Hostas looking good. I keep being tempted to add ones, but need to prepare a host of slug defences first.
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Many apologies for the lateness of this post. A sad one this week….https://thesmallgardenofrebecca.wordpress.com/2018/06/03/six-on-saturday-2-june-2018/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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What a lovely Six! I feel nostalgic about your Kolkwitzia. Mine met with a fatal accident last year. I grew that one from seed. I may have to try again.
My Six are here:
https://wordpress.com/view/thepleasuregardener.blog
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Your hosta is STUNNING. I will see if I can get one for my garden. Here are my six! https://myhalfacreblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-summer-session-i/
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Another Twitter Six from Debbie @MrsBeesGarden https://twitter.com/MrsBeesGarden?s=09
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My effort this week is focusing on Beauty at the allotment. https://allotment99b.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-2nd-june/.
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Look at me
finishing halfway through the day – I’m a regular now 🙂 https://experimentsinpropagation.wordpress.com/2018/06/03/six-on-saturday-06-02-2018/
I love those seed pods, that might be a good potting plant!
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I love the colour of the Dianthus, perfect for this time of year. I gave up the battle to grow hostas a few years ago. The slugs and snails definitely won that one. The leaves are so beautiful though…………
https://thequiltinggardener.wordpress.com/18/06/02/six-on-saturday-02-06-18/
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I am a little unnerved. There seem to be very few slugs and snails this year. Relatively speaking.
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A lovely Six from Nadia in Ireland.
http://www.cottagenotebook.ie/love-time-to-breathe-a-cottage-garden-photowalk/#comment-2840
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A Twitter six from Angela.
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Six from Carolee over in Indiana where it has been hot hot hot.
https://wp.me/p6wwxj-1HR
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Now tempted to get a hosta, though I’m not sure it would do anything to improve my feelings towards slugs and snails at the moment! Here are my Six on another sunny Saturday https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-2/
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Excellent, hello again.
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Can it be June already? Long spring here, but the nights will be drawing closed soon? What a thought!
http://janestrong.blogspot.com/2018/06/dwarves-and-giants-for-six-on-saturday_2.html
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I love your six but especially the hostas. That pattern is different. I fell in love with hostas a few years ago when it seemed it was the only thing thriving in my house in the south (US). Thank you for hosting!
https://magnoliadarjeeling.com/blog/from-the-garden-no-2-may-update
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I’ve had good luck with Hostas vs. Snails, as our lot is unusually sunny for this part of the world. I almost posted a photo of The Perfect Hosta, but got distracted by other blooming things. The alliums are quite wonderful now, aren’t they? Here are my six for today: https://thepaintinggardener.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-june-2/.
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A perfect hosta! That’s a rare article. One for next week perhaps. If it’s still perfect…
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I love the Beauty Bush, what a, well, beauty ….. Our hostas have just sustained their first slug attack, the little blighters. I have been squishing. That one is wonderful, hope you can keep her safe and sound. Lovely six. Here are mine, hope you enjoy them https://offtheedgegardening.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-another-one/
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We’ll see. I have some supposedly slug resistant gravelly stuff and I’m not ashamed to say a light sprinkle of slug pellets.
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I too have Hosta June…A very nice one if I do say so! 😉
Will be reading through a bit later…It is 7am here!
My six: https://fromourisland.wordpress.com/2018/06/01/six-on-saturday-and-june-has-arrived/
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Yes it’s a good one. Lovely colouring.
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Lots of lovely flowers here today and many I have not grown myself. Checking my hosta (a green and cream one) I see the snails have already found it. Sprayed with garlic, but I think my snails just lick their lips at that and say thank you for the added sauce! I have discovered some that are supposedly s&s resistant so I shall try and track them down. I do like hostas. Going to take me a while to get through the posts this week, what with the French tennis as well as the garden to keep me occupied!
https://cornwallincolours.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-odd-one-out/
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Yes I’m fast getting a thing for hostas. Great for a shady spot if one can keep you know who away.
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The photo of the honesty seed pod is fantastic! No matter how “common” some plants are regarded, nature seems to provide a little magic to make each one unique and interesting.
Same goes for fauna!
Here are my six:
https://ajoann.com/2018/06/02/june-garden-six-on-saturday-june-2-2018/
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Thanks, I enjoyed taking that photo.
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I’ve never seen a Rodgersia flower – what a bright surprise! I hope to finish my own planting out today…. things are growing too fast!
https://countygardening.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-spring-becomes-summer/
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Yes it’s a job to keep up.
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Lovely to see more new gardeners in your list today as well as your six. Loving the pink Dianthus. Almost as much as the phrase ‘demure shade of shocking pink’ hehe 😊. When they’re all flowering they’re going to look fabulous!
My six for today…
http://depressionfreegarden.blog/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-2/
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Evening!
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Really enjoying the sixes this week. I wouldn’t have a hope in heck of getting many of these plants to survive here haha. But they are so lovely to see. Dianthus however is a contenter.
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It’s great to see plants from other parts of the world.
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Here are my six. I am going out to weed among the cleome seedlings before I get lost in all the posts. https://doesthisfontmakemelookfat.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-june-2-2018/
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Happy weeding!
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I love to word thicket!
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Here are my Six for today.http://londoncottagegarden.com/resilient-plants-desperate-to-grow-six-on-saturday-june-1st/
On the subject of alliums, my large ones were squashed flat by the heavy rain but when cut and in a vase they opened up which was amazing. I will think twice about planting those huge headed ones though – too vulnerable to weather I think.
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I’ve managed to knock a couple off their stems, but haven’t suffered any rain damage.
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Sounds like you had a lovely week off, I’ve a few days this week, so really looking forward to catching up on garden tasks. Nice choice of six, I’ve a red foliaged Rodgersia that will feature in coming weeks. Meantime, here’s my contribution… https://hughcassidy.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/early-june-update/
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Yeah it’s been very nice. Relaxing but tiring. In a good way.
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Love the honesty seed pods, what a sight. Hostas – even though I’m a fan – always take me back to working at a garden with a huge number and being asked ‘how do you keep slugs off your hostas’ about 20 times a day. Great post as usual. Anyhow, here is a link to my six https://perennialnerd.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-june-2/
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Um. How did you keep the slugs off?
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We didn’t really. A lot of frogs and wildlife helped, but we suffered the same as everyone. But visitors only focused on the undamaged ones.
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I love your patience – waiting for those dianthus was so worth it. It just goes to show that gardening is a long game. Here’s my six – I’ve been propagating Opuntia and photographing up close Clematis and Saxifrages.
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/my-gardening-wee…aturday-02-06-18/
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It is definitely a long game. Sometimes very long!
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That link didn’t work, btw.
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Great six! I have 50 green beans, 40 sweetcorn and 10 leeks spare and I have no space! Anyway here’s mine for this week! https://wp.me/p9NflW-2S
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I just jammed in a few more French beans. They can get up close and personal with the borlotti beans.
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I think if I was to get into hostas then the ones you have chosen would definitely be on the list. I like the verigated types since they are a touch more interesting in the shade. Here is my six a little eventless but still growing garden https://tinyurbanfarmer.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturdaybuds-and-blooms
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Yes. Just have to keep mr slug away. There are some plain blue-green hosta that are also quite striking.
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Argh slugs have attacked my plants over night. I need brambles and beer.
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Brambles for them, beer for you.
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Your post has vanished..did you unpublish it?
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No, that is strange.
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I checked and it is still there and others can see it . Maybe you have reached your SOS limit https://tinyurbanfarmer.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-buds-and-blooms
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Yeah that works fine. Odd.
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I’ve done my Six duty today – here’s my link https://wp.me/p97pee-fz Bit gloomy here today but probably good weather for planting out some more slug fodder!!
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Its turned out lovely here, finally.
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Here are mine. A quick look round before we start work! https://theoptimisticgardener.wordpress.com
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Busy busy.
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Love the Kolkwitzia! I have never heard of it! I will have to look it up, maybe I know it under its common name! I have June Hostas too in my Woodland Garden……..Here is my post this week! https://thecadyluckleedy.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-june-2-2018/
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Hello! Welcome to the gang. Hope to see you again soon .
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Oh I will!
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I remember growing Dianthus ‘Brilliancy’ from seed many years ago. It’s a real stunner! My Saturday Six come from Slape Manor, Dorset https://gardenvisitor106455000.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-slape-manor-dorset/
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Yes it’s a goodun.
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Those Honesty seed pods definitely look unusual, especially with the light on them so you can see the seeds inside!
Here’s my six for the week: http://allotmenteering.co.uk/?p=228
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I was trying to find two together with six each. A double six. But no dice. (Ha!).
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I got some hostas at our plant fair too. Great minds and all that. Popped them in the cold frame for a few days while I found somewhere to plant them. Forgot that slugs can get into the cold frame. Now waiting to see if the hostas regrow. Oh well ……… Your neighbour is very kind to let you have the flowers of her Kolkwitzia; with a little bit of careful training you might manage a lot more next year. Anyhow, my six today is at https://rivendellgarden.blog/?p=3649. Now to awaken the neighbours with a chainsaw, Blog reading will have to wait till tonight.
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Jinxing myself now but haven’t been too affected by slugs etc. Not nothing, but not too bad.
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The bees absolutely love Kolkwitzia- it is positively humming in our garden at the moment.
Here are my six for this week
https://honeypotflowers.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-hostas/
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Yes, lots of bees on this one too. One almost photobombed me as i was trying to catch the pic right.
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Lovely Six. I have only seen a pink Beauty Bush flower in the past, that pale peachy colour is most unusual. The Dianthus is a big success this year. Here is my Six-on-Saturday.
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2018/06/2/six-on-saturday
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It is sort of pink, think i caught it on its way out. Pale pink maybe.
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Hosta ‘June’ has long been on my wanted list, one of the best. Love Rogersia though mine hasn’t flowered yet, always tempted by them in the garden centre. Is the Dianthus a deltoides form? I have similar seedlings but liberated from an un-named plant.
Here’s my six: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-1y2
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Yes that’s right,deltoides. Got my June for £4 at the plant fair last week, it divided into 3 decent size pieces. Bargain.
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I appreciate some of the unusual plants in your Six. Maybe we aren’t supposed to admit that we don’t know all garden plants, but I had never met Kolkwitzia or beauty bush before! My Six from the Northwest coast of the U.S. are perhaps more commonplace, but also desirable, I like to think. 🙂 https://gardensatcoppertop.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-june-2/
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One person’s unusual is another’s common as muck! I’ve only really noticed the kolkwitzia this year, it must have grown since last year.
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Morning….I know I am banging on about it a bit but we are suffering from lack of rain water up here https://sedumsdahliasandhayfever.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-2nd-june-201/
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An unfamiliar situation I imagine!
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https://tonytomeo.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-rose-parade/
Here are mine. It looks like someone beat me to the roses. I just glanced at the pictures. I will get back in a few hours.
Is honesty also known as money plant? It looks the same, but ours are not white. They are tan when the dry out. They are still green now of course.
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Yeah same thing, lunaria annua.
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Ah. I was also wondering. Can be really invasive here.
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Yes it puts itself about a bit. But the seed heads can be removed for display in a vase.
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Okay, it looked familiar.
The Allium nigrum is not your favorite? I think that is the best white allium I have seen so far, although it seems to me that alliums should be pinkish purple. I have grown none of them yet. I have never seen them look good here.
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Those roses are beautiful. I have three new ones this year but they were from a lucky dip so I don’t know what to expect!
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Seriously?! You can get roses as lucky dip too?! That is funny. I have gotten some at the end of the season when they are seriously discounted, but even they have labels on them.
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I will let you know what they turn out to be. I am not sure if it was a good idea!
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It will be fun, and probably was not too expensive.
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I like the Allium flowers in close-up, with their little green button centres, and the Kolkwitzia flowers- very pretty.
Here are my six: http://janesmudgeegarden.com/six-on-saturday-2-june-winter-is-here/
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I find alliums fascinating, even when they’ve finished flowering. The seed head is so tactile.
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I have seen the seed head sprayed with car paint and it makes a fascinating sculpture! I wonder if I took a photo of it?
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I was waiting to collect the seeds and the flower broke off when the seed pods are still green. I put it in a vase but is there any point in keeping the seeds do you think?
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Wail! My rodgersia has yet to flower – two years in the garden. I shall just envy yours. Lovely photos! I shall be writing up my six soon. Honest.
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Patience is a virtue, they say. But dont let that stop you wailing!
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Everyone seems to like your hosta leaf and rogersia flower…. I agree with them! They are attractive and I think you should post an overview of the whole plant in a few days.
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here is my link … https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/six-on-saturday-02-06/
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Shall do.
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That hosta leave is lovely. And the rogersia flower.
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Amazing what you see when you get right up close. A different garden.
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Lovely six fella, love the rodgersia flowers and foliage, one of my favourite plants, agree with the honest seed pods as well, I hope you had a great week off and achieved a lot in the garden 👍
Here’s my six for this week https://thomasdstone.blog/2018/06/02/six-on-saturday-2nd-of-june-2018/
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I certainly spent a lot of time in thwgarden. Whether I achieved a lot is another thing! Sore back mainly…
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