I am on my hols, so will be brief. Here in Scotland the weather has been “changeable” at best. Yesterday was filthy, windy and very wet, but there have been glimpses of sunshine, including the day we spent at Stirling Castle. Among the kilts and suits of armour there is quite a nice herbaceous border from which 5 of my 6 come this week.
Six on Saturday, you know the drill.
Here are my Six for this week.
1. Ligularia. Jealous of this, I have tried to grow it but it is just a slug banquet in my garden.
2. Sweet William?
3. Zinnia, I think.
4. California poppy, I think…
5. A rose.
6. Extreme gardening. In Edinburgh this time, in Prince’s Street park there is a large (working) floral clock. When we passed the gardener was tending it, precariously balanced almost horizontally on a ladder. I think he was dead heading.
That’s my brief Six this week. Join in! Just publish your post and pop a link to it in the comments below.
I’ll be back in my own garden next weekend for another #SixOnSaturday.
The Propagator 
Just got round to read all the posts. Brilliant sos week. Lots of beautiful gardens, photos and ideas. We’re in London at the weekend but will be reading all the sos’s on the train. Have a good rest of the week. 😊
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Welcome back. Hope the garden is looking lovely. Sorry that the homecoming was a wet and windy one. I forgot to leave my link yesterday – here it is https://wp.me/p97pee-pU
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Not back yet! Still there, wet and wild.
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Enjoy your holiday. It’s been awful here all day. Just managed to get out before dusk to take today’s photos…with a peachy theme https://bramblegarden.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-wind-swept-walk-around-my-garden-on-10th-aug-2019/
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Deadheading the floral clock. That’s a career choice.
Here is my Six for this week https://pruneplantsow.wordpress.com/
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That floral clock is certainly extreme gardening – wonder how many hours that takes?? Here are my six for this week. Thanks for hosting.
https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-10/
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Having been born and brought up in Edinburgh, Jon, I was especially thrilled to see your last picture of the floral clock, as all my recent visits have been out-of-season when it isn’t planted up. Some people will dismiss Scotland as being a place where it always rains and will never go again, but as someone pointed out it has been wet and windy virtually everywhere in the UK today! My post is at https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-combo/
Thanks for hosting
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Yes I gather the weather we have had is unusual. Shame.
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Well, weather is weather, and I wouldn’t live anywhere other than the UK, Jon – how about you?
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Re the reblogging thing going on – it is rather weird, but not uncommon for sites to simply reblog other blogs – strange that this particularly site features mostly YOUR posts! I do see that you have the reblog button on your posts, you can remove that by going into the settings / sharing and selecting the option to not show the reblog button on posts (I use WP admin to access settings). This might help.
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I think it is a ploy to build a site to attract ad revenue.
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Annoying all the same.
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I’ve very fond memories of visiting Scotland when our son was visiting there, and we did have one glorious sunny day! Ligularia is a new one for me and I can see why you’d want it. It would never be happy in my garden.
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Definitely Sweet William, I still have some in flower! But I think Jim is right about the ‘Zinnia’ – at first I thought it could be one of the double asters I saw recently, but I believe it is Echinacea purpurea ‘Razzmatazz – almost like a chrysanthemum! Very pretty. Enjoy the rest of your hols – weather permitting. Scotland is a lovely country whatever the weather.
https://wp.me/p79zFr-2bK
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Fascinating picture of the gardener! Such detailed and lovely plantings for those clocks! Amazing! Here is my Six for the week: https://hairbellsandmaples.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/2019-08-10-six-on-saturday/
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Well, that’s one way to do the dead heading 😁. Fingers crossed your weather picks up.
Here is my Six https://hurtledto60.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-10-08-2019/
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You will come back full of inspiration from your hols. Loved the person on the ladder…giving me ideas: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2019/08/six-on-saturday-10-august-2019.html
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Hope the weather picks up for your hols. It’s pretty dismal here in south Wales too – pelting down, blowing a gale, muggy. My asthma doesn’t like it one bit. We move house tomorrow, so I’ll be back with pics of the new place as soon as we’re sorted out.
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We’ve had wild rain the past few days in Scotland, you picked a great time to come! Hope you got to catch some of the Festival in Edinburgh?
Can you believe August has arrived already? There are times when it feels like the garden is about to go over but then there are flashes of colour and some things just coming into their own to give hope that the season has not yet come to its floriferous finale! Here are my six:
https://thepinkwheelbarrow.com/2019/08/10/augusts-arrival-six-on-saturday/
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What a week to be up in Scotland – it’s not always like this I promise! I think we have had more rain this week than the whole of 2019 so far. I have been struggling to think of what to incorporate into the front garden as a new feature this year, now I have decided – an enormous floral clock! Hope you have a drier week and enjoy the rest of your holiday. Here are my decidedly soggy six. Looking forward to seeing everyone’s sunnier gardens this weekend…
https://schoolhousegarden.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-10-08-19/
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Might the Zinnia be one of the snazzy Echinacea forms, like ‘Razzamatazz’? What do I know, I’ve never grown Zinnias or Echinacea. It’s good that carpet bedding survives, it’s quite an art form. https://wp.me/p6bCCa-1WS
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I think we all had the same windy weather, wherever we are. Back home … I’ll see the damage. Enjoy the rest of your Scottish trip. Here are some extracts of mine in Brittany: https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-10-08/
Otherwise, these yellow ligularia are gorgeous, especially because you chose to show dianthus and zinnias next
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Like others, I love Princes St gardens for strolling or sitting. Those zinnias are something special. I hope you stole a cutting or 2 to share w/your SoS gang. Blast the man in the last photo deadheading so you couldn’t steal seeds. Hope you get some better weather while you’re up north. https://lorahughes.blogspot.com/2019/08/before-winds.html
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After a rather long absence, I’m back. Visitors tonight so I’ll be back to read other sixes tomorrow. Here’s mine: http://janesmudgeegarden.com/brrr-sos-august-10-2019/
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Actually, I was hoping to have the rare, nay unique, opportunity to correct my #1 son-in-law’s spelling but Sedums…….corrected very subtly, then Thistles….was more direct! Maybe next year? Anyway, I hope you are managing to enjoy your holiday, in spite of the weather. Here are my Six-on-Saturday.
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-10-08-2019
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Enjoy the rest of your time in Scotland. We got to know Edinburgh very well when our daughter was at university there. The Botanic Garden was a great favourite.
https://thequiltinggardener.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-10-08-19/
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I think your zinnia might be a crysanthemum? It doesn’t look like a zinnia to me. And I rather like the Califonian poppies! I have some new (to me) plants this week. https://enthusiasticgardener.com/2019/08/09/six-on-saturday-in-the-fortnight-garden-5/
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Could be!
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It is Stirling Castle actually 🙂 Nice to see the floral clock again – part of my childhood. https://basia329.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-10-08-19/
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So it is! Duly corrected.
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https://tonytomeo.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-do-not-sit-on-tree/
Here are mine, which are all of the same native species, coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia. It is as common here as the California poppy used to be.
Of those in your picture are California poppy too. It is one of those odd trendy varieties that is not uniform bright orange like California poppy should be. It is our state flower! It still grows wild here, but unfortunately, is easily crowded out by exotic. Also, it gets neglected by pollinators who are visiting more of the exotic flowers. This butterfly gardening fad is not helping.
I do not know what to make of the zinnia. I can neither confirm nor deny its identity.
The sweet William looks right though
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Scottish name ‘Stinking Billy’
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Oh my; that is . . . descriptive. Actually though, I never thought they were all that sweet. I don’t think they are particularly fragrant at all.
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I’ve never been to Scotland. I must get around to it one of these days. We’re off to Cornwall next week. Weatherproofs and jumpers have been packed. Definitely Sweet William and Californian Poppy https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-batten-down-the-hatches-10-august-2019/
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That’s some extreme dead heading. I’ve been lazy about leaning over the borders for roses at the back. Puts it in perspective. Enjoy your holiday.
My six for this week with more dahlia and hydrangea love https://wp.me/p7AXpE-2pr
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How much was your pound worth at Sterling Castle? 😇. Princes Street Gardens is an oasis of calm in the city centre. Thankfully the my have always kept the clock. Not bad for an old Loch. Hope you are having a fantastic time. When are you going back South of the Border? https://sedumsdahliasandhayfever.com/2019/08/10/six-on-saturday-10th-august-2019/
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My six is above. Starting to take action with all my Succulents due to the rain.
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Not much! Quite a lot of them disappeared into thin air. Heading back down on friday.
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Just leaving this here https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/branklyn-garden
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