We’re at that time of year where it starts to get harder to find something fancy to show, so I have a mixed bag this week.
Here are my Six…
1 – Seedlings, unknown. Something has dropped a whole lot of seeds in the front garden, and they have germinated in situ with gusto. If I was to guess I’d say they are lychnis coronaria, but time will tell. I’ll leave them be for now but will eventually pot up a few then compost the rest.
2 – Beaucoup d’oignons. You may recall that a few weeks ago I planted over 200 onion sets in modules. They have begin to shoot enthusiastically. I plan to plant them out early next year, February perhaps, but for now they can grow on in the greenhouse. I notice they are leaning a little towards the light, I’ll need to rotate them from time to time.
3 – Box o’ ferns. I have a couple of gaps in the shady border that I’d like to fill out. These dryopteris ferns should do the trick. They should get to about 1m tall and wide, maybe a bit less. I got these cheap in a stock clearance at our local ex-Wyvale garden centre.
4 – Pyrocantha. Some of the berries have been pilfered, but in it’s 2nd winter this shrub is doing quite well, especially since I thought it was dying earlier this year. When planted it was a tiny plant in a 9cm pot but it has grown quickly. I have trained it against the wall. It probably needs a little tweaking for shape and coverage.
5 – Fatsia japonica, bonkers flowers. These look to me like a demented chemist’s idea of a molecular model. Although some of the more tender plants have blackened in low temperatures, we still haven’t had a proper frost, so these are still looking good, if a little odd.
6 – Hosta leaf, on its way out.
Those are my Six, what are yours? If you’d like to take part, 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 here.
Have a super weekend in the garden, weather permitting, and don’t forget to check in later as links get added during the day.
I’ll be back next weekend with another #SixOnSaturday.
😬😬😬😬😬 Aaargh!!! Last time!!!
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2019/11/10/six-on-saturday-10-11-2019
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Anyone who might be interested, try again!!
https://grannysgarden229242407.woordpress.com/2019/11/10/six-on-saturday-10-11-2019
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I’m a bit of a mad scientist at heart (or witch, whichever suits at any given time🤣) so the fat sis japonica are my fave on your list, although the onion sets are putting me to shame! Still plenty of colour here at the moment, so here’s my six to inject some floral colour. . . https://www.dizzydelights.com/
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Try again – link doesn’t work!
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-09-11-2019/
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Love those Fatsia japonica! Here are my six…post published yesterday (for us!) but I was out all evening and didn’t have a chance to post my link here. Thanks again for starting this great Saturday theme! https://basia329.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-09-11-19/
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I haven’t got a six for you this week, nothing much of interest in the garden that hasn’t already been seen. I chopped my Fatsia down a couple of weeks ago so my son could cart it off to the tip for me, but left a few flowering branches which have been destroyed by the hurricane force winds here! I’ll cut those down now to create a much smaller and rounder shrub. That Pyracantha looks nice, is it growing in a container? Looks much easier to contain than my Virginia creeper which has a habit of heading for the roof!
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Yes the pyrocantha is in a square wooden planted wot I made.
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Good evening. Yes, more of a challenge each week, but we all like a challenge! The pyracantha is looking very healthy. Here are my Six-on-Saturday for this week. https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-09-11-2019
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I can’t reply your blog, Granny…settings have been changed?
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I hope not. Is it still not working?
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Still not. If you had an update on WP, you may need to allow comments again
( a switch on settings )
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Hi. Also for me it’s “hosta leaves” this week. About # 1, I don’t think it looks like lychnis … a colour too “green grass” for me, mine are more silver green … but maybe I’m wrong, the future will tell. Like everyone else apparently fatsia is doing the show this week! Great photo !
Here is my link with delay (I had to go back to work to fix printers….sigh…) : https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-09-11-19/
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The pyracantha’s looking good, but I’m properly jealous of your box of ferns because I’ve got a lot of shady woodland to fill!
Here’s my sixhttps://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2019/11/early-november-in-garden-six-on-saturday.html
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Reposting the link in case it isn’t working.
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2019/11/early-november-in-garden-six-on-saturday.html
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Lots of lovely little ferns there Mr Propagator. They should fill out nicely.
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I don’t have a greenhouse so can’t bring plants on over the winter – lucky you! However, I have planted a few bulbs this week! https://enthusiasticgardener.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-in-the-fortnight-garden-7/
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Your pyracantha is striking. The light fixture and heart next to it are intriguing. Here’s my six for the week: https://stoneyknob.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-huckleberry/
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The pyrocantha is lovely. Is there a story about the small white heart?
Here are my six for today. https://doesthisfontmakemelookfat.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-first-frost-november-9-2019/
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No nothing interesting, I think my wife got it as a birthday present years ago. In theory it holds a candle but we m have never got round to sorting that out.
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Ooh, you make me want to rush out and check my fatsia, Jon! I remember getting excited about a healthy patch of seedling before realising that they were in fact ragged robin! My six are at https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-the-first-and-the-last/ Thanks for hosting
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I think we have matching hostas! I wish I also had some of your bonkers. My six for today are here: https://aftereden.blog/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-9-november-2019/
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Everyone seems to like the bonkers flowers. So do I! It’s snowing right now, here…I’ll be snipping some buckthorn branches to prop around shrubs the rabbits enjoy, but that’s about all the gardening done for the year!
https://countygardening.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-09-11-2019-four-days-what-a-difference/
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The Fatsia flowers look like palm flowers to me, maybe it is a tropical thing. I haven’t seen a Pyracantha in years, that one is lovely, are they as thorny as ever? I tried to grow onions from seed last year, major disaster and no onions. Here is my Six: http://theshrubqueen.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-bountiful-butterflies/
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Love your ghosty Fatsia flowers here are my six
https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/flowerswalksnature.home.blog/446
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That link isn’t right I’m afraid.
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The non-native ivy relatives, like Fatsia, seem to be as popular with insects at this time of year as ivy is. My Schefflera flowers were smothered in flies when last I looked. Your onions are well on, I guess the trick now is to get them planted out early but avoid a big check from the drop in temperature. My allotment is too exposed, I could use cloches but would need to concrete them in. The ferns look good, I recognize a couple of them. Here’s mine: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-236
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The onions will have to go out in february, I’ll need the space for more seedling for more plants that I dont have space for…
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Lovely red pyracantha – I have that on my think list for my narrow border currently home to wold blackberries – see this week’s six. Also like the fatsia flowers. I always think finding six is going to be difficult at this time of year but the challenge is a good one and gets me out and about when the temptation is to be an armchair gardener for a while. I think I’ve missed my local wyevale closing down sale – Grrr!
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I love the Fatsia seedheads. I can imagine a container of them inside – very structural. Here’s my six. As bad weather seems to be the norm, my garden is becoming 50 Shades of Green. May not have much to offer as summer burns it way through our current cold burst. http://pruebatten.com/2019/11/09/sos-91119/
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Love those fatsia flowers – they’re great for late pollinators. Since we moved southwest we haven’t got any where near a frost, but blimey has it rained! Here are my 6 for today. My posting is a bit random at the moment but better a few than none at all! https://theoptimisticgardener.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/6-on-saturday-9-11-19/
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Those Fatsia flowers look different to mine, although mine has only bloomed once!
All but a few Leeks remain to be lifted from this year’s harvest from the garden so it’s a great time of year to look back over the successes and challenges of the growing season and here are the pick for #sixonsaturday.
http://thepinkwheelbarrow.com/2019/11/09/this-years-harvest/
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One day I’ll get this right two weeks following!
https://thequiltinggardener.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-09-11-19/
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Love the Fatsia flowers, which I have never seen before. It is a great foliage plant! Unfortunately I lost my Hosta during winter. It did not seem to like the climate here anyway, so I will just enjoy seeing other peoples successes with Hosta. Have a great gardening week! Here is my Six on Saturday!
https://hairbellsandmaples.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-where-are-the-tomatoes/
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Identifying seedlings is always such fun. Work now so back later to see the seasonal changes in everyone else’s garden.
https://thequiltinggardener.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-11-09-11/
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How big is your veg patch? You have allot of onions! Top work on sourcing those bargain ferns. They look so healthy and green when everything else is fading away. Here’s my six featuring lots of autumn colour and a couple of new plantings for spring.
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/autumn-bites-six-on-saturday/
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Hmmm yes I may end up growing mainly onions next year!
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Love your pyrocantha at the moment where you can see it creating its shape, but it also looks like it’s going to be one of those wonderful producers in future. That wall’s going to be stunning. Your fatsia’s done well, too. I remember the first time yours bloomed & how mystified/excited you were. Doesn’t sound like it’s lost its appeal for you. Will you let the seedlings over winter or be lifting them soon? https://lorahughes.blogspot.com/2019/11/clean-up.html
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I’ll let the seedlings be for now, not sure they’ll grow much over the winter.
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Your pyracantha is looking well. Mine also recovered foliage-wise after going to look very ropey in May but there have been a lot less berries as most of the flowers seemed to fail for some reason. I wish my wife was fond of ferns. I’m limited to two! https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-all-about-trees-9-november-2019/
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She just hasn’t seen the right ferns!
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It does get harder now to find six things in the garden doesn’t it? But I do enjoy the challenge! Soon enough it might just have to be six patches of bare earth. When the sun is shining and the ground isn’t totally frozen it’s still lovely being out in the garden and I think the fewer changes there are to see each week the more you appreciate them.
https://schoolhousegarden.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-09-11-19/
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All part of the joy of Six on Saturday
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Your branch and seed-head images are beautiful – thank you
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https://tonytomeo.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-tree-removal/
Mine are not very colorful either, not because of the lack of bloom here, but because of the topic. Arboriculture is not very flowery.
There is always something to show off. Lack of bloom, and perhaps lack of foliage, compels us to notice other features, such as bark and branch structure and garden sculpture and such. Mine this week are merely about arboriculture, rather than flowers or foliage that I want to show off. Well, I suppose I don’t need to tell you that.
Your Japanese aralia is pretty intriguing. I think of it as a foliar plant, so do not give much thought to the bloom. Such blooms are commonly cut off because they smell funny. Yours seem to be brighter white than I remember them to be. I think of them as being dingy yellowish white.
Pyracantha is pretty sweet too. No one grows that here anymore. It is just too thorny. I recently removed some at work because they were encroaching into utilities. They were not planted there intentionally, but by birds. I would have liked to salvage them.
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Enjoyed your six as ever: The Fatsia is a beauty, and I am sure the rain has added an extra shiny layer to its leaves. Your box of ferns was a great find, and after seeing your berries, I realise what is missing in my newish garden. Here are my six this week: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2019/11/six-on-saturday-9-november-2019-soggy.html
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I’ve dug out a number of lychnis last week as they had taken over one part of the border. I’ll give away next year or use for plant sales if I do open gardens. The dryopteris will fill the gaps nicely. I’ve got several getting on for their full height now. My fatsias seem to be considering flowering but haven’t quite yet.
My six this week getting some more bulbs in, a bit of tidying and bargain purchases.
https://30daysofwildparenting.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/six-on-saturday-9-11-19/
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Yes they are very prolific but very garden worthy plants.
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I normally shy away from novelty pots but would have been very tempted by that owl too!
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I can always turn it round if I decide I don’t want the owl. The colour complements many of the plants around it.
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No six from me this week. Just simply not enough light to take any photo’s when I get home. Will be back next week.
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👍have a great weekend Paul.
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