My garden is responding well to a spell of glorious sunshine followed by some worthwhile rainfall this week. Things are going bananas! As others have observed, we have gone from famine to feast in terms of available options for inclusion in Six on Saturday. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything – a flower, a weed, a pest, a success, a failure, foliage, seedlings, anything at all. Join in!
I have decided to focus on the more ephemeral of the available options, those most likely not to be there next week.
1 – Narcissus ‘Pheasant’s Eye’. This is a late flowering daff, it only recently got going. They are smaller than I expected and at one flower per stem not especially floriferous either. Still, they are quite dainty and if you get close enough quite pretty. From a distance they just look white. I’ll be pleased to see them again next year but think I will try some different late-flowering daffs rather than adding more of these.
2 – Tulip ‘Slawa’. These are almost over, in fact their brothers in the pot on the patio are already done. These are in the ground in the border and still look OK. I quite like them but think I prefer ‘Brown Sugar’ or ‘Orange Dynasty’ which have similar colouring.
3 – Hellebore ‘Pink Lady’. I was not expecting any more flowers from the hellebores, and certainly the ones I already had in the ground are long gone. This one was recently planted after buying on a 3 for 2 offer at RHS Wisley. I’ve put them at the front of the shady border, they should be happy there.
4 – Tulip ‘Elegant Lady’. Not terribly elegant, more slobbing about in her pyjamas. To be fair to her, when closed up in the early morning, they do look quite elegant. Not one I’d rush to get again.
5 – Apple blossom. The big cooker tree that overhangs my veg plot is usually good for a year’s supply of chutney and numerous apple crumbles. Last year was poor, not sure if it was the cold spring or hot summer that did the damage, possibly both. This year though the tree has been a riot of colour, albeit shortlived. Most of the blossom is now on my lawn but there remain some good clusters on the tree. I am hoping for a bumper crop.
6 – Tulip ‘Mistress Mystic’. Sounds like a she might be a psychic, or possibly a supplier of niche services of the kinky variety. In reality she is a tulip of slightly mucky looking pink. I shan’t complain, tulips this late in April are welcome. Hopefully she will stick around long enough to hand over to the alliums.
Those are my Six, what are yours? If you’d like to join in, just publish your post and pop a link to it in the comments below. If you also mention my blog in yours that would be fab. For more details you can read the brief participant guide.
Have a lovely gardening weekend, don’t forget to check back in as links get added during the day.
I’ll be back next weekend for another #SixOnSaturday.
Heres my post only a day late but I do have a good excuse https://patientgardener.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/six-on-saturday-27-april-2019/
amzing that you have a hellebore still flowering.
Did your tulips stand up to Storm Hannah?
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Hi, those near the end all dropped petals in the wind where they might otherwise have hung on for a while. I just have a few pots on the go, the later ones.
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I like that hellebore. After reading your posts, I think I’ll try some in the shady part of the front border. I’ve started an Autumn Wish List and they are the first entry.
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Yes I’ve been meaning to get some for years, only got around to it the last few months.
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There were some really dark red ones in the garden centre last month. I wish I’d bought some 😦
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Pheasants Eye are a favourite of mine. I love the tulips too. Here’s mine this week https://bramblegarden.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-my-garden-27-april-2019/
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Evening!
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Good morning! We had been to the care home and then on to my in-laws house to do their gardening, so home late. Just got in in time. Hoping the house is sold soon, so we won’t have to worry about keeping it looking as good as they did. We’ve done our best. Enjoy your Sunday x
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And this is link to last week’s which didn’t work – so trying again
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You have a lovely section of tulips. Here is my six this week –
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Evening!
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This year I realised just how ephemeral the apple blossom could be – and now we wait to see just how good the crop will be (always far more than we can use, but I have many grateful friends!) My post turned out rather longer than I expected:
Thanks for hosting, Jon
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Yes, fingers crossed. I’m still disappointed to have no spiced apple chutney this year.
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And yet here we had a sooper dooper bumper crop last year… My necessary chutney is a tomato one, and a dozen jars are needed to ensure there’s enough for the whole year!
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Just squeezing in under the bar. I love your apple blossom. Going off tulips. I think Tony Tomeo might have converted me.
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Tulips are quite the thing aren’t they? Here is my SoS for this week https://mybeautfulthings.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-hannah-and-the-tulips/
🙂
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Love em, wouldn’t be without.
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Oh, I love your apple blossoms. My apple tree was destroyed by borers when it was only a few years old. I’m not very good at fruit trees… this morning I noticed that the small cherry looks like all the flower and leaf buds are dried up. The pluot is “gummy,” and the peach had to be cut way back to try to make it upright. I don’t know how my father managed to have such nice trees. If these three go, I am not trying again!
I hope someone can help with two of my six today! Two are photos of seedlings I grew, but lost the labels on their containers! One seems pretty unusual, so identifiable to someone who may have grown it before. Thanks in advance everyone!
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2019/04/six-on-saturday-april-27-2019-help-me.html
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Shame about your fruit trees. Maybe your dad sprayed his?
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Love all your colour this week! Is that first Narcissus a variety of N. Poeticus? My large daffs have just a0started to open, as have the Tulips — we’ve many more weeks of bulbs to enjoy!
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Yes you get the tulips now when ours are on their way out.
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Here is my blog for today https://londoncottagegarden.com/useful-garden-plants-six-on-saturday-27-4-19/ and I have to say that since getting that Yoast SEO thing my life has become much more complicated.
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No clue what that even is…!
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I love your tulips. My one and only tulip and most of my daffodils have come and gone. I also love your camera. I’m determined to buy a new one soon that will let me take closeups. I’m sprouting mysteries in my yard: https://stoneyknob.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-mysteries/
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WOw! I love the Hellebore ‘Pink Lady’. How come when I was back in the UK week before last I could not buy any plants? Are they only sold at a particular time of year?
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They’re mostly all sold by then, you can might have caught a few on sale to get rid. Peak hellebore season is the few months around Christmas. You can get all year fro specialist nurseries.
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Okay, I will check out the garden centres before xmas if we are back then. 🙂
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Be back later
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Love all those tulips. I also have lots of blossom on my patio fruits trees 🤞🏻Here are mine after skipping a few weeks https://southfieldgardener.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/success-and-failure-six-on-saturday-27th-april-19/
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We wish for spring and then too soon lament the last of the blooms. This spring seems to be compressed, but seeing your pheasant’s eye daff and then your tulips has made my face light up! Enjoyed choosing my SOS but did these yesterday as I was out on a little outing from early this morning: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2019/04/six-on-saturday-27-april-2019.html
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That’s ok, I always do mine on a Friday…
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WHAT????????????
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I know, scandal, right? (How else do you think they get there for 7.30am every Saturday!?)
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The Pheasant’s Eye are the very latest daffs in my garden, just edging out the Golden Bells that bloom about a week earlier. If you find any late daffs that bloom after the Pheasants Eye, I shall be VERY interested. I’d love to extend Narcissus season even longer.
Lots going on in my garden, so I have posted a Six on Saturday doubleheader. The first is my usual miscellaneous S.o.S.
The second focuses on six woodland orchids that are blooming in my garden this week:
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There were some late daff recommendations elsewhere in the comments. Not sure if they are later, but late certainly.
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Windy last night and this morning, but I’m not complaining It’s not raining! Here are my six. https://doesthisfontmakemelookfat.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-helicopter-wars-begin-april-27-2019/
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Yes weather is divided into raining and not-raining for you now!
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My husband calls this stress on saturday because I have to keep getting his assistance being a decidedly non techie gardener myself. Thanks for hosting. Here is my link https://2blackhens.home.blog/2019/04/27/six-on-saturay-27th-april-2019/
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Excellent, well done you.
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Your mix of the apricot tulips and the wallflowers is just lovely.
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I hope everyone checks these posts on a desktop or laptop. Phones and tablets just don’t do the photos justice. The ‘Pink Lady’ hellebore is lovely. May your good weather continue. Right now, everything in Alabama is richly green (and pollen covered). My six for today can be found at https://aftereden.blog/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-27-april-2019/
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Phone only for me I’m afraid.
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The late daffs that are working best for me this year are I think Sweetness, Silver Chimes and possible Pueblo. My Thalia were all eaten by creatures and looked ravaged. So happy to wake to find blossom still on our apple tree and not all over the ground. Fingers crossed. Plan to write my blog later today……
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Thanks for the late daff recommendation.
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Watch out for those Pheasant Eye Narcissus, they multiply like crazy. More plants… Here’s the link to my Six https://twitter.com/USA_heatherr/status/1122104922160410625?s=19
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Oh good, multiplying is a good thing.
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I am growing Pheasant eye for the first time this year and I love them. So fresh so late (for daffs anyway). Nice tulips selection too. I’ve made a note of your mystic mistress!!
Here are my six: https://wp.me/pM8Y1-7nn
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I gather they spread too, so even more next year.
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I’m enjoying your tulips this morning! My very first have opened here. Lots happening, as with everyone: https://gardensatcoppertop.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-april-27/
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Excellent, enjoy your tulips.
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Lovely! I’ve been a bit ‘must do better’ for the last couple of years when it comes to tulips – yours look great!
My #SixOnSaturday – Hosta Heaven… https://wp.me/p9CZg7-2R I forgot to link to your blog – will go back and rectify!
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Tulips are great. Get loads.
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My apple blossom has almost finished in about a week! Sun, rain and now wind….what a week.
Here’s mine:
https://oldhouseintheshires.com/2019/04/27/and-then-there-was-a-storm-six-on-saturday/
Have a great Saturday. I will be back later to read some posts. X
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So long as it turns into lots of apples!
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Well…..I’m not so sure. All cookers and only eaten by the hedgehogs! There’s only so much sauce you can make and I still have some from last years batch!
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Hellebores here still going strong with no sign of seed pods forming just yet. I had a lively show of blossom on malus and prunus blossom. Until yesterday afternoon! Damn Hannah! Still, I made a six and it’s at https://rivendellgarden.blog/?p=4262
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Yes it’s pretty blowy here too.
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Not terribly elegant, he says, of that lovely blushing radiant tulip. spoilt, that’s what he is. =)
Here are my non-elegant six. https://uttarakhandandi.blogspot.com/2019/04/flower-time.html
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Yes, spoilt, or exacting!
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Having tried some different tulips this year including a couple of the paler ones I have to admit to liking the bright and dark ones better. Still, tulips are tulips and to be welcomed whatever they decide to wear. Not sure there will be many left after Hannah has finished though! Fortunately I got my photos taken before the wind and rain arrived. And this week I hope to get around the rest of the sixers – last week just ran away with me as the temperature was so good I had to be outdoors! Today I am freezing! Teach me to switch the central heating off…
Have a good week Prop!
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Yes I think I prefer the stronger colours too.
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Yikes, Narcissus ‘Pheasant’s Eye’ ephemeral! I hope not I decided to save mine for next week!! I’ll have to take a precautionary picture 🙂 I’ve got some hellebores that have yet to flower so yours gives me hope. We’ve had some rain here but not what I’d call worthwhile – I need some more. Here’s my link https://wp.me/p97pee-nL
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Hopefully it will hang about long enough!
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Really like those tulips – a lovely shape https://basia329.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-23/
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Thanks!
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What a lovely Hellebore. Mine seem a distant memory now. I’ve one tulip in my Six but not quite as beautiful as yours!
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Just one!? Must try harder.
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I too have late daffs and unfortunately I had only 6 boxes to fill this week so it will be for Twitter or later … Pretty tulips, you made good choices!
Here is my link this week: https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-27-04/
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Hi Fred, hope you dont have the windy weather! I have to stand in a field now for 2 hours watching U16 football…
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Hi, yes a lot of wind this morning … with some hail again… good luck for your waiting watching the football game, take a thermos of tea or coffee!
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Last game of the season, a relegation battle. Need to win to stay up in this division…
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Inspiring, to still have daffs & hellebore in bloom. Sounds like planning took place sometime last year. I might have to consider that myself. What are the orangy looking flowers behind the intermittently elegant ladies? They & the little allium heads really add to that bed. Love the apple blossoms. My appletina did zip (think expletive) this year. https://lorahughes.blogspot.com/2019/04/firsts.html
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The orangy flowers are geum ‘totally tangerine’. Planning?! Hah, likely story. Just the usual plant magpie behaviour…
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They looked like geums but are so far ahead of mine, I thought not. Are there early blooming geums as well?
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I have several clumps of geum TT, all flowering for weeks now. They’ll go for months. I also have a single g. ‘Flames of passion’ which is a rather pretentious name for it, also flowering, coming to a SoS soon.
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What a kovely selection for what is obviously a beaitful day. I was wondering if you’d like to share the apple chutney recipe at some stage. I am going to pick dozens in about a week. Quinces too. Yikes. Anyway, here’s my slightly larger post than normal. Cheers. http://pruebatten.com/2019/04/27/sos-27419/
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I mean lovely of course. Blame it on the cataracts…
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and ‘Beautiful’ too… sigh!
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I am trying but so far failing to match my recollection of my grandmother’s spiced apple chutney recipe, sadly gone with her to the grave.
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So sad when that happens. Am holding onto my late mother’s cookbooks as if it was a lifeline to my own youth! I shall have to google a recipe and see what comes up.
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https://pots-and-paws.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-my-first/
My first attempt at Six on Saturday, very happy to have joined the gang.
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Hello, welcome! Look forward to reading, hope to see you again soon.
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Hello. Couldn’t find a comment box but wanted to say I love your lush garden and hope there was no permanent damage from the storm.
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Yep, sunshine and showers up here too. Perfect growing weather. Sometimes I could swear that if you spend a whole day outside just now you can see plants actually getting bigger as the day goes on! Here are my six. Have a great weekend everyone.
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Yes, you can certainly see that with bindweed!!
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Bindweed definitely grows while you watch it! If only my clematis grew as quickly!
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Good morning. Rather ominous looking black clouds overhead this morning, still, it will make the weeding easier next week and will give me some time today to browse through the other Sixes-on-Saturday, although there are so many now. Well done, Mr P! https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday
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Thanks, yes it is rather windy and grim here too. Football game this morning then a bit of pottering this afternoon.
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A nice hellebore to still have going and a nice collection of tulips.
I’m going on all out on tulips this week to balance covering foliage last week. https://wp.me/p7AXpE-2lT
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Got to nab the tulips while you can, won’t be with us much longer.
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Tulip Mystic Mistress looks like it may be in my list next year. I am going to plant late flowering daff’s for next year. Here is my 6 https://sedumsdahliasandhayfever.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-27th-april-2019/
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Yes I’ve been enjoying more of an overlap with the daffs and tulips this year, more bang for your buck.
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I’m a big fan of the Pheasant’s Eye, though you have to get up close to appreciate them fully. Mine are actually flowering… well some of them are. I like the alternative descriptions for the tulips! https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-the-calm-before-the-storm-27-april-2019/
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I think the tulips have a bit of a personality. Enjoy your daffs!
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Lovely pics. I must be doing something wrong with my i-phone 5 S and WordPress.
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Here are mine. I will be back later to see what else shows up here.
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An elegant lady slobbing about in her PJs – love it! I think she’s lovely when closed up – sunshine can play havoc with some tulips.
Jet lag leads me to post early this week. I’m back with Six after a holiday to Japan. Much to write about from my trip but this post had to be all about tulips as they’re looking perfect this week.
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/great-garden-tulips-six-on-saturday-27-04-19/
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Yes she scrubs up well in her evening dress.
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Strong sense of putting one season behind you and moving on to the next when the bulbs come to an end. I included one. The pheasants eye daffs are a very clean white, I wouldn’t say just white; and it’s a colour(?) in relatively short supply at this time of year, at least on my patch. Here’s my six: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-1OF
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Yes it feels like spring went in a flash after waiting for it for so long.
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Hello Jim, I don’t seem able to post a comment on your Six. The Holboellia is stunning. I’ve looked it up and it says 5 metres tall. How long has yours taken to grow?
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Mine are those that were about finished (or finished) too. I wanted to get them while I could. I will post the link in a bit. (It is not yet Saturday here.)
I never looked into ‘Pheasant’s Eye’ daffodil enough to know that it bloomed with single flowers. I was not impressed enough with it in pictures to study it. The odd colors and small center look odd to me. However, I think it looks more appealing in your picture, and it is interesting to read that it looks mostly white from a distance.
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Ooops, I suppose I should not have made a separate post below. Anyway, here is the link to mine. I will be back later to see what else comes in through the day.
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I’ve been waiting for you to open up! Love the pheasant’s eye, one of my favourite daffs. Lovely tulips of course, but then again you are the Tulip King, amongst other things. 🙂 Here are mine, hope you enjoy them https://offtheedgegardening.com/2019/04/27/six-on-saturday-stormzy-and-soggzy/
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Such impatience in one so young!
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😀
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