I’ll be brief as I am rushing out to what I hope is a bargain-tastic plant sale at East Ruston Old Vicarage Gardens, a beautiful place we visited earlier in the week. This week’s Six mostly comes from there too.
1 – Dahlias a-plenty. Some of the many, in both number and variety, dahlias in the various sections of garden.

2 – Trees, lines of.
3 – Foliage. My eye was drawn to several interesting shapes and textures.

4 – A grand entrance. At this garden they have many large displays involving pots. Plants are crammed in and many of them look very impressive.

5 – Nerine. In one of the glasshouses there was a good display of nerines. This was my favourite.

6. Finally, our extremely local beach, scant yards from the back door, scene of several walks, a bit of paddling and some proper autumn weather.
That’s me for this week, normal service resumes next weekend for the next #SixOnSaturday.
The Vicarage gardens look lovely! Is that a metal sculpture in the centre of your number 4 with all the pots? It looks like one, but then I hesitated and thought it might be a real fern? The building has an interesting roof, and I assume its thatch? Enjoy the rest of your holiday. The beaches look lovely!
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Happy hols to you. Https:// digwithdorris.wordpress.com
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Ooh, lucky you! EROV is one of my very favourite gardens …so glad for your sake that you were able to visit it and I hope you got some bargains at the plant sale. What an amazing nerine that is! Thanks for hosting. My six are here https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-summer-suns-are-glowing/
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Evening, turns out it was a plant fair not a plant sale, if you see what I mean. Didn’t stop me from buying several….
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Now why does that not surprise me, Jon…?!
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Can’t imagine. Whistles innocently..
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That looks like a wonderful garden. Hope you got some bargains. More six here. https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-5th-september-2020/
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Great photos! Hope you enjoyed your break in Norfolk. https://davidsgardendiary.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-9/
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Love that garden, and the Dahlias, a plant sale, irresistable…I haven’t seen a Nerine like that, either. Another bulb I have killed here. Are they called Guernsey lilies sometimes??? Your beach looks a lot cooler than mine…here is my six, happy mowing. my “lawn” looks awful and needs a trim as well. https://theshrubqueen.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-growing-toads/
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Predicably I was unable to resist. Several more plants to find room for…
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Yep, I pulled weeds and suddenly have more room.
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Afternoon! How glorious – looks like my kind of holiday. Not jealous at all… Bit of a scrapping the barrel #Six from me today!
https://mysecretgarden61808037.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/sixonsaturday-back-to-the-fuchsia/
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It was very nice to change the scenery for a week, might have wished for better weather but it was mostly ok.
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Very I made it at last Six on Saturday https://gardeningmyway.home.blog/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-5th-sept-2020/
The Nerine in your post is ace. I’ve one to feature in my blog in bloom I hope soon as it’s only just got around to producing buds.
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Yes i wish i could remember what it is called…
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Just been looking on https://www.nerines.com/hiawatha—lady-annie-chichester.html ‘Hotspur’ looks a good match.
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Oh very good, well done.
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I hope you’ve been able to pick up some of those special plants, Mr. P. I’m signing in again from the Pacific Northwest – https://gardensatcoppertop.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-september-5/. Will be back soon to visit all the gardens posted here.
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Maybe, maybe, I couldn’t possibly comment…
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Gosh I love the way you fill your pantry from the garden. That’s my dream…
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Here is the link to my SoS for the week. I will be back later to read your post in detail.
https://hairbellsandmaples.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-w36-2020-splashes-of-colour/
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You’re so lucky to get away but good for you. Hoping you’ve picked up many plant bargains.
My Six on Saturday is in its way I got delayed today with extra care duties which always come first before the garden. I’ll pop back in with a note later on. Cheers for now.
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A beach holiday where you can actually step out onto the beach sounds perfect to me! I wish I could afford to buy a house that close. Love the father/daughter photo, you both look extremely happy (and why not with that view), the beach looks remarkably quiet! East Ruston is one garden I didn’t get to on my Norfolk holiday some years ago, but it was on the list. I see others are requesting a post on this garden so I too will plead with you to do so on your return home. 😍 Fabulous dahlias and I love the pots!
Meanwhile here in Cornwall destruction is taking place with a vengeance!
https://wp.me/p79zFr-3iE
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The beaches were very quiet, the season is over really, to the extent that it ever got going, and lots of schools are back already.
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I think everyone came to Cornwall 😩
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What a beautiful garden and a perfect place to spend some time in late summer. My favourite photo is the last one. It’s all about bees this week for me!
https://countygardening.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-05-09-2020-pollinator-garden/
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If I was local I would totally have an annual season ticket, it would be great to go once a month to see it change.
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I am totally distracted by that beautiful beach. I am missing my trip to the seaside this year. Hopefully normal service will be resumed for next year. Happy plant buying! Here’s my link https://wp.me/p97pee-DE
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It was a fab beach, with that very clearl light that you often get on the coast here.
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We are looking forward to seeing what you bought and how many plants you can make from them! Here’s my link. https://pruneplantsow.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/sixonsaturday-september-5th-wonderland/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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Oh god make it stop! I bought several many plants.
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Nice Photo’s & interesting plants here are my I hope not to boring SOS
https://flowerswalksnature.home.blog/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-5-9-20/
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Thanks. Look forward to reading!
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Lovely photos. Looks like a garden well worth visiting. Here’s my Six https://greengirlgardener.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-5th-september/
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Definitely, if in the area.
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I was hoping you would publish a post on East Ruston. I’ve not been there yet, but it looks very interesting.
Here’s my hastily re-written six, as Blogger didn’t save my first draft!
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2020/09/the-front-garden.html
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It’s a lovely garden, definitely one to have on the list.
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What a beautiful garden. And beach. It’s a part of the country we’ve never visited (along with many others). Love the textures in number 3, but that Nerine!
https://thequiltinggardener.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-05-09-20/
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Nice part of the world, if a bit flat!
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Love the gardens, and especially the birch walk and the nerine, but for a coast-lover like me, the beach takes the cake! Here’s mine for this week and enjoy your break! https://pruebatten.com/2020/09/05/sos-garden-59/
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It is a lovely beach and plenty of elbow room too.
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Fabulous photos of East Ruston, what a garden!! Looks like you had a great time, love being by the sea. I’ve been surprised by how good gardens still look, not all faded glory. http://kasmaty.blogspot.com/2020/09/sixonsaturday-still-lots-of-gems-in.html
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It’s a great garden, worth a trip.
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THat looks like a lovely garden to visit. The massed pots remind me of the entrance to Great Dixter where the pots are always amazing. Norfolk beaches are so lovely and not too busy this last week, I bet. No 6 from me this week, but I am seriously weeding today so maybe a 6 weeds next week.
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No pretty quiet all round, season’s done really.
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Good morning. Glad the weather improved and you found interesting gardens to visit. That beach looks beautiful but chilly. I expect you will return to an even more lush garden – the irrigation system won’t have been needed much. Here are this week’s Six-on-Saturday.
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-05-09-2020/
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I’m looking forward to mowing the lawn. It was long before we left, so is probably out of control now.
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Number 4, Jon. That’s my style of pot-cramming! Enjoy the beach and the pargain-tastic plant sale.
My Six on Saturday features memories of our recent visit to the National Gardens Exhibition Centre near Dublin. There’s mention also of my 2013 retirement.
https://growwriterepeat.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-8/
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Thanks. I may have succumbed and bought a few plants…
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Really?
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Ah, the agony of all those plants for sale at bargain prices and a car full of people and holiday gubbins. East Rushton really got your photographic juices flowing, I want to get in the car and go to that plant sale, what time does it start? Nerines, I want more Nerines. https://wp.me/p6bCCa-2sW
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10am sharp! Joys of older children, they went home last night in the other car, so we have space….
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Mmm, 10.50 now, I wonder how much you’ve spent so far.
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80 quid. We left before it got serious.
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I’m jealous – East Ruston has been on our want-to-visit list for a long time but we have been daunted by the long car journey that would be needed – Fishguard across the country. One day! Enjoy.
Here is my contribution for this week: https://anirishgardener.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-05-09-2020/
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Yes, worth making a weekend of it I’d say.
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Some beautiful photo’s there. Her is my six https://sedumsdahliasandhayfever.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-5th-september/
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Loving the line of trees!
Been a busy week for me: https://peerlessgardening.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-05-09-2020/
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Hi Adrian, look forward to reading later.
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https://tonytomeo.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-pompeii/
My garden may be uninteresting presently, but it survived.
Is that a bunya bunya, Araucaria bidwillii, in #3 and at the heading?
Nerine is wildly colored! I have not seen them with any purple.
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It was a small monkey puzzle tree, definitely araucaria something or other
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Araucaria araucana!? That is very rare, at least here. Actually, all Araucaria are somewhat rare here. Two types of Araucaria heterophylla live in Southern California.
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Yep that’s the one. There was a big fad for them a few decades ago. Quite common to see them in front gardens, they get quite big.
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Yes, but arborists do not want to work with them. Their foliage is so nasty! Fortunately, they do not need any work until they get old. By that time, arborists should be outfitted with levitation devices, or drones with tools.
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Hope you continue to have a wonderful holiday! The gardens you visited look great. Here are my six from a rather grey Wellington https://basia329.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-05-09-20/
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Thanks. Home now, we had a nice time.
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What a stunning set of pictures! I love the pond area – it looks a bit like the circular pond I have built but the area is much more artfullly planted than mine.
I’ve been away in Devon and Cornwall, missing a few weeks of SoS but I’m back this week inspired by my holiday reading of Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths. I bought just one plant whilst away as the car was full of surf boards and family. But what I did buy is a beaut and is featured today. I’m looking forward to catching up on everyone’s gardens later.
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/plants-from-the-greek-myths/
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I know. I couldn’t work out which of the children I wanted to jettison the most. Still, I’ve got more money left to blow on a bulb order!
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K, you went there, I was referring to the surf boards! I agreed to do some decorating myself (despite swearing I never would again) with the logic that I will save a bunch of ££ that could be better spent on you know what…
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Did you carefully plan your holiday around this? Great to see you and your family on the beach for some of the time. Here are my Six on Saturday: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2020/09/six-on-saturday-5-september-2020.html
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No! Discovered it was just a couple of miles away once we got here.
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Holidays with such discoveries are the best! You will have limited room of course, with the car packed up, to buy much, which may or may not be a good thing.
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This garden looks fantastic! 😀You’ve taken some great photos and it’s rare to see yourself (and your family) pictured on this blog or Twitter ( Nice family photo👍🏻 ).
Here is my link this weekend with, of course, things less beautiful than you. https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-05-09-20/
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Hi Fred, yes, a rare appearance!
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All looking stunning. I’ve not managed anywhere near the garden visits I’ve wanted this summer but has saved me from the plant sales. I don’t need to be finding more space for plants right now.
This weeks six I am using for my RHS revision to look at monocots and dicots while illustrating with plants in the garden. https://30daysofwildparenting.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-5-9-20-monocots-dicots/
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I don’t need plants either! Help!
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I’ve just bought additional seed trays. Primulas, poppies and a few perrenials to go in.
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I have to start with your final photo – how nice to see you Mr. P and what a sweet photograph to end with. Hope your holiday has been fabulous, from the look of the people in the sea, you have some nice warm weather.
The remainder of the post is a treat, from the dahlias, the trees, shapes and textures, the entrance and finally to the Nerine – all lovely and inspiring photographs.
https://notesfrommygarden.co.uk/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-2020-05-09/
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No those people were crazy, it was waaay too cold to go in the sea.
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It’s much like that here too, we locals look on in amazement at the determination (or madness) of visitors who paddle or swim whenever there’s a glimmer of sun.
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East Ruston Old Vicarage Gardens looks like a fantastic place and a plant sale too – that was good timing. I went boating on the Norfolk Broads many years ago – a beautiful part of the country to unwind in https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/six-on-saturday-late-summer-colour-5-september-2020/
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