Another month flies by, eh? We’re off on hols to the balmy coast of Norfolk, where temperatures will stay stubbornly in the mid to high teens for most of the week. At least it seems likely to be dry.

I will be brief as I’m busy trying to close work down before we head off. Six on Saturday then. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. You know the drill. Join in!
1 – Gaura ‘Gambit Variegata Rose’. Gaura are unreliably perennial in my garden, I was down to none left when I spotted this while browsing innocently through the shop at Waterperry. I felt obliged.


2 – Gladioli, lary orange. Yet another of the bunch I bought by the cart load for pennies at the start of the summer. This one is bent low to the ground with the recent storms, so is not showing its wares most advantageously. I hauled it upright for the photo then flopped it right back down again as I didn’t have cane and string handy.

3 – Dahlia ‘Caribbean Fantasy’. Planted and left in pretty poor soil and largely ignored by slugs and snails, this dahlia is doing very nicely on the bit of border I commandeered from the grass verge on the pavement side of my front wall.

4 – Aster frikaartii ‘monch’. I have two of these now, the newer one is not yet flowering. Supposedly one of the best garden plants evs, I am not seeing much to write home about yet- straggly plant and few flowers. Must try harder.

5 – Potentilla x ‘Monarch’s Velvet’. Of late this plant has behaved like a monarch, like it owns the place, spreading about all over via runners like an out of control strawberry. It seems to put more out as fast as I remove them. I have declared a temporary truce as it is flowering profusely.

6 – Rose ‘Claire Austin’. Not her first rodeo, but worth another look.

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 spiffing.
Have a fab weekend!
Stay safe, I’ll be back next weekend for another #SixOnSaturday.
I’m late to respond, but make sure you visit the Millennium Garden at Pensthorpe while you are here in Norfolk! It’s glorious!
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The orange of that gladioli is stunning, and ‘Claire Austin’ is radiantly beautiful.
Thanksonce again for hosting. I surely hope the rough start to your little get-away smoothed out. Here are my six: https://barefootlilylady.com/2020/08/31/six-on-saturday-goodbye-august/
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Fabulous blossoms as always. My aster is still to flower! Enjoy Norfolk – I lived there about 15 years ago for a few years! More six here https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29th-august-2020/
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You have done well with your bargain gladioli, Jon – will you just leave them at the end of the season and dig them up and store them? Seeking wisdom in my post today, gladioli and asters are things I have learned not to bother with any more! That potentilla looks a great do-er though! https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-seeking-wisdom/
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I’ll just leave the glads in, last years seem to have survived the experience, my soil is quite well drained.
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Worth persisting with then
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I only have success with the white Gaura, the fancy ones seem to be annual. Love the Dahlia but I’ve vowed to but no more as I’m so fed up with them being munched this year. Expect I’ll relent😀. In my haste to get into the garden I forgot to check in here and add a link!
https://thequiltinggardener.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-08-20/
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Yes i came close to ditching the dahlias this year after many were eaten to the ground. I dug them all up (apart from this one!) And put them in pots.
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Lovely flowers, the Gaura is fab! Gauras are seemingly annuals here and too much trouble for that. I had those Asters further north, they take a while to establish before they are fab and may need the Chelsea chop, I can’t quite recall when..Happy Vacay and here is my post..https://theshrubqueen.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-the-good-the-bad-and-the-bugly/
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Duly noted, I shall be patient.
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Enjoy your week in Norfolk. Love that dahlia! https://davidsgardendiary.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-8/
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Thanks, enjoying the horizontal rain from inside at the moment!
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Beautiful gladiola, I’ve not seen such orange ones before. I’m sorry to hear your gaura isn’t reliable. Mine is the most reliable, dependable perennial I’ve ever had. I cut it completely down each fall and it pops back up and takes over.
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2020/08/six-on-saturday-august-29-2020.html
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Horses for courses.
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A vacation! How wonderful! I think we that reside in the US of A are grounded for the foreseeable future. Have a fabulous time. Here’s my link:
https://pruneplantsow.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/sixonsaturday-august-29th-food-for-thought/
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Yes seems so for now. Stay safe.
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Great color in the gladioli! And I always love seeing the dahlias of those who are successful with them. They open in such a beautiful way. My six from an unusually rainy August Alabama are here: https://aftereden.blog/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-august-2020/
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Rainy here too!
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Hey, a successful like! Have a great holiday, try not to think of the garden (or us) too much! I was interested to see Fred’s question, I have the same type of potentilla as Fred – which is slow to get going so I was envious of yours spreading itself all over the place. Lovely flower and a well deserving of the truce. Here’s my link https://wp.me/p97pee-Dq storm battered but still going, just!
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I have #1 child on watering duty. I’m not at all anxious, really!
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The gladdy is lovely. The potentilla too. Have a wonderful time in Norfolk and I hope your garden doesn’t get up to shenanigans while you’re away. Here’s mine: https://pruebatten.com/2020/08/29/sos-29820/
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I have #1 child on watering duty. Fingers crossed!
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Morning! All looking rather excellent, as ever! Am increaingly envious of those who seem to be able to grow dahlias without a care in the world. That said, last years reduced shelf purchase is faring pretty well and yesterday is was joined by another – £3 reduced from £9 and looking pretty health. I know you’ll approve 😉
Have a great holiday – hope you manage to fit in some inspirational garden visits…
https://mysecretgarden61808037.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/sixonsaturday-late-to-the-party/
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Oh.dont be fooled, most of my dahlias got munched to the ground.
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😉
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Have a great weekend.
http://gardeningmyway.home.blog/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29th-august-2020/
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Thanks keith, a cool and rainy start to proceedings….
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That’s a very pretty dahlia. What a lovely colour. I hope you have a good holiday with some decent weather. Perhaps you’ll manage to fit in a garden visit or two.
Here’s my six for this week
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2020/08/the-end-of-august-in-garden.html
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I discovered yesterday that there is an excellent garden very close to where we are, east Rushton old vicarage. Shall be dropping by.
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That’s featured in a couple of books I have of the ‘Great British Gardens’ variety. It should be well worth a visit.
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Good evening from NZ! Enjoy your holiday and that is a gorgeous rose.https://basia329.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-08-20/
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Thank you.
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Enjoy your week whatever the weather. Very lovely dahlia photo and I didn’t realise Claire Austin did rodeos. Mine are here https://digwithdorris.wordpress.com
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She’s very versatile.
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I love that potentilla – I have some seed for that variety, I was wondering about them, but on your ‘recommendation’ I shall sow them. Have a great time in Norfolk, I love the east anglian coast, but it will be breezy! Here’s my six for this week:
https://theoptimisticgardener.wordpress.com/category/6-on-saturday/
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I may dig it up tbh. Got lots of other plants jostling for a spot.
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I love that Potentilla and the Gaura foliage as well. Wet and cooler here this weekend. A nice change but with September arriving – so much to do in the garden! Here are my Six:
https://countygardening.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-08-2020/
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Horizontal rain outside. Summer going out with a bang.
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Hope the holiday is a good one. Seem like holidays are needed more than ever this year, even though options are fewer. Love the Dahlia ‘Caribbean Fantasy’. My six this week are all Dahlias: https://gardeningstepbystep.com/dahlias-garden-six-on-saturday/
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It will be a different set of walls at least!
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I do like the variegated foliage of the Guara; it adds another dimension! These plants seem to do very well in my garden and are great filler and pollinator-attracting plants. The dahlia is really pretty and the Potentilla is a glorious colour. Have a wonderful holiday, and I hope the weather stays fine for you.
Here is the link to my SoS for the week: https://hairbellsandmaples.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-w35-2020-new-growth-peeking-through/
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Thanks, dodgy start, cool and rainy.
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Enjoy your holiday. Try not to get bitten by a dog as I did on a Norfolk beach a few weeks ago!! Love your Gladioli. Mine have produced leaves and nothing else. This seems to happen a lot with bulbs in my garden – too much shade I think caused by next door’s jungle 🤬. Here’s my Six https://greengirlgardener.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29th-august/
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Shame about your flowerless glads.
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Good morning. I hope the weather keeps dry for you this week. We have a cold North wind blowing down the side of the house just now. I like that Potentilla, unusual colour.
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-08-2020/
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Horizontal rain outside!
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Oh dear. Time to get out the board games.
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I think I have ‘Caribbean Fantasy’ but it isn’t flowering and doesn’t look very heathy. I also have something similar to the Potentilla with not a bloom in sight. I’m happy to enjoy yours. The best garden plant ever label has been a sure-fire kiss of death for so many plants here, including ‘Mönch’. It puts me off trying things, they’re almost certain to under-perform, even if they don’t die. Have a good week, it can only improve, can’t it? https://wp.me/p6bCCa-2sh
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It’s a topsy turvy world in Jim’s harden..perhaps your should look for the ‘mediocre garden plant’ labels and they’ll be brill.
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Pleased to hear Potentilla ‘Monarch’s Velvet’ is a good doer, I recently bought mine from Hardy’s Cottage Plants and love the flowers, where Rosy Hardy breeds her own Gaura, I particularly like ‘Rosy Shimmers’. I’m mostly about damsons this week: http://kasmaty.blogspot.com/2020/08/sixonsaturday-delighting-in-damsons.html . Hope you have a great holiday in Norfolk.
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Hopefully not in distress.
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Enjoy the break! We are happy to have a sunny morning here today, a change from weather this past week.
https://anirishgardener.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-08-2020/
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Well that Dahlia is a bit of a show stopper. I might have to invest in one of those!
My (rather quick) six this week: https://peerlessgardening.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-08-2020/
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Morning!
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I’m back, did you miss me? I thought not. Lovely rose picture, you can show me that as often as you like. That gladdie a stunner, mine are all at jaunty angles, I am a dreadful staker. Have a happy holiday! Here are mine https://offtheedgegardening.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-sighing/
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Morning Gill! That orange glad is still at 90°.
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Enjoy Norfolk, a chara. It won’t be exactly a Caribbean Fantasy, but a break away is uplifting.
https://growwriterepeat.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-9/
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No, more like North Sea Reality!
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🤔 Hope you have a lovely time.
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Norfolk holidays and Caribbean Fantasy, both lovely, enjoy yourselves. That Aster takes a couple of seasons, and works best is it has plenty of light and space to itself, to live up to its reputation. Here are my six: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2020/08/six-on-saturday-29-august-2020.html
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OK thanks, I will give it a chance!
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I somehow ended up with a Gaura earlier in the week. Love the Dahlia and the Potentilla is a beaut. Have a good holiday and I hope the weather stays dry https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-august-2020/
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Thanks, rubbish today but hopeful from tomorrow.
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https://tonytomeo.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-urban-flight/
Again, I was away from the garden. I am back now, and will get some pictures of what happened in my absence for next week.
Gaura is perennial for us only because it self sows fast enough to replace itself before the original dies. Unfortunately, this technique allows for reversion. (I do not mind reversion, but those who prefer particular cultivars do.) It is difficult for so-called ‘gardeners’ who pull the seedlings as if they are unwanted weeds, and also shear the original plants back as if they will be perennial for a few years.
That potentilla is pretty. I do not give it much thought because it does not do well here. It used to be a popular ground cover, and might do better in this region than where I used to work with it farther inland.
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Cuttings work well for the gaura, usually. I will try a few before it gets too late.
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Oh, of course; to get them true to type. It seeds so profusely that I did not give that any though. I suppose layering would work as well.
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The gladiolus is the perfect colour for autumn, I hope you managed to find a cane to prop it up before you left for your holiday. Dahlia ‘Caribbean Fantasy’ is a lovely soft shade, I’ve looked at that often, but then the list just became too many and it got left behind. Love that little Potentilla – it’s such a bright and pretty flower.
Have a great holiday – the weather forecast for your destination looks great, just pack a warmish sweater for evenings. Have fun.
https://notesfrommygarden.co.uk/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-2020-29-08/
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Thanks Cath. That dahlia is interesting, some flowers are pale like that one, some are darker pinky purple on opening.
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Super six. Glorious gladioli. With the weather most of mine have become cut flowers. Even with staking a lot has gone over last night. Glad it’s looking dry for your break. Hope you got the car sorted.
This week sees seedlings, new purchases and old favourites. https://30daysofwildparenting.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-8-20/
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We got here eventually. Radiator punctured by something off the road. Not repairable roadside so tow truck and taxi were involved. Eventually. Got here gone 10pm. Eta was 2.30pm. Rarely reached stratospheric levels of grumpiness ensued. On to car insurance when they open at 9am…
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That’s horrible. And so stressful. Not a good start for a holiday. Hope it improves and there is plenty you can do without the car.
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Bank Holiday weekend is making the courtesy car thing tricky. We’ll manage.
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Oh dear! That was a bad trip. Hope today gives glorious sunshine – at some point.
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Ha no chance. Blowing a gale, heavy rain due any minute.
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Oh bummer.
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Very beautiful photo of orange gladioli!
The gaura variegata is very pretty too, and to finish I’m amazed at the result of the potentilla. Mine (classic yellow) only has given a few flowers this year. It’s an old shrub that should be rejuvenated by pruning it a lot. Here is my Six: https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/29/six-on-saturday-29-08-20/
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Morning Fred, this potentilla is a herbaceous perennial, dies back to the ground, or to basal leaves, in winter.
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so not like mine ( a ball shape shrub of 1.50m in diameter with old wood.).
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I have one like that. P. Fruticosa.
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