We had a windy March and now we seem to be having a showery April. How traditional! After a few months on the dryish side it is good to see some decent rain, so long as it largely stops for the weekend – I have things to do! Without further ado, time for Six on Saturday. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything – a flower, a new plant, a job to do, a success, a failure, anything at all. Join in!
Here are my Six for this week.
1 – Rosebud, Dr Eckener. Of the 15 or so roses I now have, I think this is the first rosebud to develop this year. It is certainly the first I have noticed. This is encouraging as Dr Eckener was a slow starter after planting last year, not flowering at all. The bud is small yet and it will be a couple of months before I see the flowers on this one. This rose lives in one of the planters in the side alley. Technically this is a shrub rose but it grows to 8’x8′ eventually so I am training it against the wall as a climber. I am looking forward to herr doktor adding some colour and some fragrance to what I hope will be quite a heady mix.
2 – Poppy seedlings. Not self-sown exactly, I helped by scattering seeds about as I was deadheading last year. If I’m right, these are ‘lauren’s grape’, a purple annual. There must be 50 of them dotted about the border so I need to thin them out a little. I think I will pot some up, one never knows when one might need plants in an emergency. Supposedly they get to 3′ but I don’t think any made it much past 2′ last year. Perhaps they’ll be a bit more vigorous this year.
3 – Tulips! I have a few returners from last years hybrids, but for the most part they are duds. I think they need a lot more mollycoddling than I have time for to increase the chances of repeats. Happily, thanks to this year’s batch, it should not be much longer before I am once again a fully paid up resident of tulipsville. The buds are up and the colouring is already evident. This one is ‘Pretty Princess’. I do love a tulip.
4 – Amelanchier grandiflora ‘Robin Hill’ – flowers. I bought this tree last year having realised that I don’t actually have any trees to speak of in the garden. Those I do have are really borrowed from neighbouring plots. This should eventually get to 3 or 4 metres tall tops, so shouldn’t swamp out the garden too much. The flowers are nice by themselves, but in a week or two will be set off beautifully by the coppery foliage as it emerges fully. Happy with this tree so far.
5 – Tiarella ‘Pink Skyrocket’. I last looked closely at this plant a few weeks back and it looked decidedly scrappy. It didn’t do much last year, I suspect it sulked after I moved it to a shadier spot, and the remaining foliage looked very untidy. Now, though, the new foliage is coming through, superseding the old, and with that comes the flower spikes. It looks like there will be a couple of dozen so it should be quite the bobbydazzler when in its pomp.
6 – Dicentra spectabilis, lampradoo-dah if you insist, or bleeding heart for the common amongst us. Several years old now, this plant disappears entirely for the winter, emerging each year anew. The flowers are lovely but I actually prefer the foliage on this variety, a lime-tinged shade of green that positively glows in the shady border. I think I have a cutting of it somewhere, not sure if that survived the winter. If not I’ll have another go this year, it is a plant I like a lot.
Those are mine, what are yours? If you’d like to join in, please do, just publish your post and pop a link to it in the comments below. The link is important so that others that may not know about your blog see it. If you also mention/link to my blog in yours that would be fab. You can find more details and other ways to take part in the brief participant guide.
Have a productive weekend in the garden and don’t forget to check back in during the day as more links get added.
I’ll be back next week with another #SixOnSaturday.
As promised my link – https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2019/04/07/six-on-sunday/
Thank you so much for hosting. We have a Amelanchier also. Flowers first each year and already flowers are fading as it was early this year.
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Amelanchier is a tree I’d never heard of before I joined SoS, and I don’t think it’s well known here. I do like it. A lovely addition to your garden when it grows up.
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A rosebud! How exciting! Interesting to read about your tulips – we visited friends on Friday and their clump of tulips reappear reliably year after year. It seems their soil is very free draining and even though in our garden we have pretty decent deep soil I have all but giving up any expectation that tulips might return to face another day (although occasionally they do, VERY occasionally!). My 6 are at https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-shade/ ps did you get your sweet peas planted out…?!
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Rosebuds! Also loving the Tiarella, don’t have any of those. My Amelanchier is in full bloom and was going to feature this week but work overtook yesterday so no Six. Hopefully there will still be blossom next week.
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Oh my fur and whiskers! I’m late! I’m late! I’m late! Your Robin Hill is gorgeous. I have a mystery flower this week that I’m hoping someone can identify or give me a clue about.
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Hello! Better late than never….
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Greetings from Japan. I have joined you with blossoms. Hanami or blossom gazing is what my week has been about. https://digwithdorris.wordpress.com
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Ah Kon’nichiwa! Look forward to reading.
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Here is my six: https://www.parabola.me.uk/blog/2019/Apr/six-on-saturday-6-apr/
Phew just made it in time!
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Cheers Steve!
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Tulips are lovely, but I’ve not planted them in years. You remind me to plant some again this fall (and not expect them to care for themselves). My six for today are here: https://aftereden.blog/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-6-april-2019/
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I love them, such a joy for a month or two.
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Another interesting six, Mr. P My favourite has to be the Dicentra spectabilis with its golden leaves.
Here are my six for this week https://pigletinportugal.com/2019/04/06/sos-six-new-plants/
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Evening! Thanks, will have a read.
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Good morning! It’s so windy here today it took some time to get some photos that weren’t blurry! Maybe next Saturday my volunteer tulips will be open. I may not like them, but I won’t pull them out!
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2019/04/six-on-saturday-april-6-2019.html
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Yes that is tricky when it’s windy. I’ve found the burst mode on my phone helpful, usually one of them is sharp.
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Heres my six this week – focussing on the front garden this week. Like your Dicentra or whatever its called these days. Thanks for hosting as ever.
https://patientgardener.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-6-4-2019-front-garden-highlights/
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Evening Helen! Ooh a bit of front garden action. I have big plans for the front garden this year.
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I dug my lawn up about 3 years ago – no regrets. If you rummage around on my blog and search front garden you will find some befores and afters. Best thing I did
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Ooh interesting. I shall. Something similar planned here. Not much lawn left anyway…
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Fail, old chap. It’s LamprOdoo-dah not LamprAdoo-dah. I did post this morning but had to dash for my annual torture session (local HPS AGM) so only now am I able to congratulate you on your emerging everything and refer you respectfully to https://rivendellgarden.blog/?p=4224. Incidentally you still score for production of a written report (I just give oral) but I think we score as we now have a web site of our own.
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We’ve had a website for years, old chap. Our agm was last month. Did my best to speed through it but people kept saying inane things and asking questions. I’ve stood down as chair, btw, not got time to do it justice.
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Our AGM is next month. We have a day meeting and have Fergus Garrett talking in the afternoon so that focuses minds.
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Classy speaker!
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I’m confused. Are you Berks or Bucks? I thought you were Bucks, who don’t have a site.
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Berks!
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Gorgeous foliage on the Lampro thingy. I’m just going to call it dicentra too. Here’s my six. Late as always. https://bramblegarden.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-surprises/
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Yep, the resistance starts here!
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I’m here! Lovely six this week Your Propness. Amelanchier blossom makes my heart beat just a little bit faster and tiarella is becoming a great favourite. Poppy seedlings yippppeee! Here are mine, hope you enjoy them https://offtheedgegardening.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-watches/
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Evening Gill, thanks, it’s getting harder to pick which 6 to feature…
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I love the way your dicentra foliage positively glows. I’ve been debating growing coleus of a similar colour, but maybe I need more dicentra!? I always mean to thin my poppy seedlings too, but it never seems like a high priority until they are in flower, cramped together. Good luck with transplanting them.
Here are my six: https://wp.me/pM8Y1-7lS
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I started off moving them but quickly got bored and just thinned them out. Ruthless.
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I didn’t think poppy seedlings liked being moved around which is why they say sow them were you want them rather than in seed trays?
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You are right, they don’t once they’ve formed a rossette, but I regularly prick them out from dense pot sowing. You can move them later if you do it carefully not breaking their tap root and watering copiously till they perk up.
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They don’t seem to mind when small. I’ve always grown in trays then pots then transplanted.
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Your Tiarella is looking better, one of mine has gone bananas – sooo many flower spikes it is looking absolutely fabulous! The others not so great. Hope you are enjoying the weekend. Sunny here, but windy again and the wind can be chilly, but I have managed to get outside and pot up some of my new purchases! Just hope the wind doesn’t damage then and the S&S leave them alone!
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That’s strange isn’t it, that one would do so much better. Spent the whole day in the garden, weary now!
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Different parts of the garden. I shall see how they behave as the sun moves back into the back. The one in flower has had more sun during the winter.
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Mine are all in the shade.
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Well mine are during the summer, but my floriferous one is under the deciduous willow so gets some light in the winter.
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Our rain has been frozen! We’ve had the whole selection, snow, hail and sleet!!! ❄️ Here are mine for this week https://southfieldgardener.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-6th-april-19-growth-and-snow/
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Brrr! Rather you than me!
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Hello again! First time here in over a month. How nice of Lauren’s Grape poppy to oblige. May your showers bring great blooms! Here is my post from the Pacific Northwest: https://gardensatcoppertop.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-april-6/
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Hiya, yes she is very accommodating is Lauren.
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Here are my six. We were supposed to get rain yesterday and last night but it skipped us. So I don’t need my waders to get into the garden. https://doesthisfontmakemelookfat.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-spots-of-color-april-6-2019/
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here’s to drying out! 🌱
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Loving spring. Just back from a long trip away and my garden is full of colour, as shown off in my #sixonsaturday. http://www.balmerino.info/geekygarden/index.php?/archives/2-Six-on-a-Saturday-blog.html
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Hello again, welcome home!
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Rosebuds indeed! Mine haven’t been pruned yet… Still very cold at night here.
Here’s my post. Hope the link works.
https://pruneplantsow.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/sixonsaturday-april-6th-here-and-there-this-and-that/amp/?__twitter_impression=true#top
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This one is against the house so probably not too cold in comparison.
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March went out like a (very cold) lion this year, but warm weather seems to be hear finally. Here are my six for the beginning of April:
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Hiya, thick sweater required in the garden today, quite cool out, sun is stuck behind cloud cover.
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Looking forward to seeing the amelachier develop. It’s sort of on my list – if I have room!! Also interested it the tiarella – always on the look out for dazzlers that like the shade! Here’s my link https://wp.me/p97pee-nf
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Yes me too, it’ll be a year or two before it’s settled in I expect.
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That Tiarella ‘Pink Skyrocket’ is now on my wishlist. Thanks for sharing!
Here’s my collection for the week… https://doingtheplan.com/2019/04/06/rho-de-do-does-and-forget-me-nots/
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It’s a good one. In theory.
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Interesting posting here this week…I have had a special Tiarella sulk, whilst the one that has been a goer is happy even though it was moved last year. I shall persevere…maybe lift later and see if there is something wrong with the roots.
Here is my contribution this week: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2019/04/six-on-saturday-6-april-2019.html.
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Could be, either crown rot or the dreaded vine weevil.
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Oh I hope it is not vine weevil, is there not a type of plant which it leaves alone?
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There’s a very sad chopped down Amelanchier trying to leaf out and flower in the devastation of our new neighbour’s back garden. Your tree is new life in, theirs is old life going out. It wasn’t in good shape, I’d have done the same. Nearly included Dicentra but it should be in flower next week, when I’m away. Here’s my six: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-1NV
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Yep, I had a disliked laburnum removed from the front garden, but I’ll plant a nice tree instead.
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Impressed to see roses already in buds … Mine seem far. As Tony said, weird these yellow leaves of dicentra? Maybe lack of light this winter ?… but it will come back. Gloomy weather, rainy but no frosts until 20-04 (here), better after !
Have a good weekend my friend, here is my link: https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-06-04/
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No it’s a specific variety of dicentra, I forget which. It has lime green leaves.
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I have had a hardy plant’s leaves affected by frosts. It has soft red trumpet shaped flowers but I don’t know it’s name. I will look it up.
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Plants needed in case of an emergency. Too true! I’m finding my tulips do better in planters, where they’re callously left all winter. Perhaps it gives them better drainage or something during the wet season. Looking forward to seeing all your buds opening up. https://lorahughes.blogspot.com/2019/04/natives-return.html
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Hello Lora, yes the drainage probably suits them better.
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The Darwin hybrid tulips are the most reliable for coming back year on year. Look for Apeldoorn (red), Golden Apeldoorn (yellow), Blushing Apeldoorn – see a pattern emerging?
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Ta. I like the fancy blended types the best. I do have some darwins too.
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Tulips! I just planted mine (in Australia). Now the long wait for spring.
Here’s my first Six on Saturday post. Thank you for the idea, I had so much fun photographing my garden today.
https://pottedup.home.blog/2019/04/03/six-on-saturday-06-04-2019/
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Hello! Welcome to the gang, glad you enjoyed it. Fair warning, it can get addictive…
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Your garden has really burst into life – a rosebud already! Alexandra from the Middle Sized Garden blog told me the trick to repeating tulips is to plant them deep. In my garden I hit so much flint it’s difficult to achieve but she’s had some success with it.
Here are my six – news from the Spring Show and plans to build a rockery!
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/my-gardening-week-six-on-saturday-06-04-19/
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Yes I put about 100 in the ground this year, a foot down, so we’ll see what happens.
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Morning all. I love tulips at this time of year too and try and get a couple of years out of them in well drained pots but I think to have them at their best you have to be pretty ruthless and grow them as annuals. I’m off on holiday soon so next week’s six might have a bit of an alpine theme. Here are this week’s. Happy gardening everyone.
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Agree on the tulips. I might try an experiment with lifting a couple of pots worth but otherwise I’ll start afresh. Have a great holiday!
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Like a few other species that you feature, saskatoon seems to be more popular there than it is here on its home continent. Perhaps those within the native range do not grow it because it grows wild. Those of us who are outside of the native range probably do not know what it is. Regardless, I have been wanting to add it to my garden, just to be able to cook with the fruit. There is nothing else here that compares to it. There does happen to be a native dicentra, although I doubt it is like yours. I will need to watch it though. I have always ignored it. It looks rather weedy where it is abundant.
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Is your dicentra a cultivar with yellow foliage, or does it just start out with that lime green color and then fade to darker green?
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It stays pretty light throughout.
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Morning. Lavender carnage and a guessed Allium amongst mine. https://sedumsdahliasandhayfever.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-6th-april-2019/
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Morning sir, have a great weekend!
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I love Tulips as well and nice to see that Tiarella doing better.
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I’ve really noticed my roses shooting up the last week. My bleeding hearts looking set to flower. All starting to come back to life.
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Yep everything is surging forth.
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It is. At this rate I may have tulips for next week.
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This is my second six.
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This is my first six. I will be right back with the next six.
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The flowers of the new amelanchier are rather nice. Look forward to seeing that rose when it flowers. Deploying emergency plants sounds like a great idea! https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday-the-ever-shrinking-patio-6-april-2019/
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Morning, yes me too!
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Good morning. I have included Bleeding Heart for the first time this year, as you may notice later on. I do like your Robin Hill tree, very pretty. I’m off out to help at the local parkrun – marshaling this week – I realise this distance is chicken feed to you but always a nice atmosphere whether helping or running. Here are my Six-on-Saturday.
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/six-on-saturday
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Morning! I still haven’t good around to taking part in a park run. Must do that. I am off running of late, got a niggly injury I’m trying to rest.
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Oh dear. Hope it clears up soon. Have a good weekend anyway.
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