Greetings! I have more or less finished the decorating, of the first room anyway, so I shall be free to garden for most of the weekend. I have lots to do, including converting my raised beds into, er, not raised beds. Raised beds are great if you have difficult soil or for access, but mine are really just for decoration. I will end up with a bigger veg plot, in theory, and there should be less places for slugs to hide.
1 – Japanese anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’. This has looked great for a few weeks. I have several clumps now from plants grown from root cuttings of the original. I’ll leave that till next week, I thought, several weeks in a row. Of course now there is only one flower left.
2 – Violas, oodles of ’em. I bought 5 trays of 30, all £2.50 a tray off the pity bench. I’m almost as excited about the sturdy looking module trays as I am about the plants. My plan is to top each of the tulip pots with a few of these.
3 – Begonia ‘Angel Blush’, leaf cuttings. A lovely plant for a shady border and hardy to boot, allegedly. I took leaf cuttings a few months ago and they seem to be doing well. I’m hoping that two or three of them will survive the winter, I’m aiming to grow on and perhaps plant out in the shady border later in 2021.
4 – Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’. Would it surprise you to know I now have several of these, grown from cuttings? Thought not.
5 – Clematis ‘Mme Julia Correvon’. Like Bill McKenzie the other week, this clematis flowers its socks off in the summer but for some reason it is having a little late spurt. How nice. I’m only now noticing the bindweed! How embarrassing….
6 – Rose ‘The Pilgrim’. Continuing the theme of late spurts, The Pilgrim here is having a go. I think I will have several flowers before the frosts. This plant has gone bananas over the summer, putting on metres of new growth. I put this down in part to a second year of regular feeding, but also to regular watering. I mean, I’m not sure, but it’s almost like watering plants regularly makes them grow more! I should write to the RHS.
Those are my Six, what are yours? If you’d like to participate, 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 cool beans. For more details you can read the guide.
I hope you have a splendid gardening weekend, don’t forget to check back in as more links are added during the day.
Stay safe, I’ll be back next weekend for another #SixOnSaturday.
Really great blog! Honorine looks even better as the light fades, I think. That clematis is a beauty too. I have Honorine in my monthly Fab Five – if I have time I might try your 6 on Saturday format, sounds fun!
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thanks, hope to see you soon.
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Good evening! Here I am, rather late in the day and it will take me some time to catch up on all the posts here already. I’m with you on the sedum and I have been admiring it here also. It is one of those plants which looks well late into the season.
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i think my favourite thing about sedums is seeing the new growth come through at the bottom!
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Clematis like rain, and I think yours may be having a long late flowering because of the rain. I bought a Bill McKenzie having seen yours a couple of weeks ago, and now I fancy today’s one. Here are my six, including a clematis: https://kasmaty.blogspot.com/2020/10/sixonsaturday-october-show-offs.html
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yes possibly, although all are in a wall shadow. i think water is involved though, i included that fenceline in the irrigation system so they are getting consistently watered.
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That is a lovely clematis and I think that the bindweed in the shot makes you human! My photos usually have ground elder lurking in the background. Your Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ is a nice, strong magenta colour, far less orangey than mine. Definitely worth spreading around!
Here are my Six -> https://frogenddweller.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-the-whole-world-in-my-hand/
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another weekend has passed when i didn’t tackle the bindweed. must do soon or it’ll take over!
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You Japanese anemone is lovely – mine is not thriving and I think I will move it. Love the sedum too. More six – https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-17th-october-2020/
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if you’re moving, take a few roots for root cuttings, easy way to get new plants. did a blog about it a year or two ago, have a search for it.
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Thanks for tip – I will check that out:)
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Have you noticed that bees are attracted to your Autumn Joy? Or not? My sedum is not an Autumn Joy and gets ignored. Here’s my six: https://wp.me/p4Y6ke-2HO
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Yes, popular with our buzzy friends.
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How do you post a picture here? I copy and paste the URL from a photo in my media library? It can’t be that easy.
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Yes apparently that’s exactly how.
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Good to know that some of your clematis are having a late spurt Jon – lovely to have them in the middle of October. Thanks for hosting
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yes, and no sign of frost in the forecast in the next two weeks. at this rate i’ll be enjoying them in november too!
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😊
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What a gorgeous clematis, and still going strong! (I wouldn’t have noticed the bindweed, the flowers are so lovely)
Here are my six for this week:
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once you get your bindweed eye in, you see it everywhere!
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Your Autumn Joy looks nice. Every time I set my mind to getting one (usually on a Saturday for some reason), my sources are all out. I was going to make due with Neon instead, but that ran out too.
Nice begonia. I used to have so many as houseplants, I don’t know when and why I stopped.
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2020/10/six-on-saturday-october-17-2020.html
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i’m like that with lupins. by the time i remember i want some, they’re all sold out. probably just as well since the slugs will just eat them…
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I am now dreaming of pots and pots of tulips and violas…..love the Honorine Jobert, and roses in October! Lovely. Here is my six https://theshrubqueen.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-fall-flowers/
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there are worse things to dream about i guess!
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Very envious to see you buying plants that will overwinter. Here we are girding our garden’s loins for the imminent big freeze. The house is once again filling up with the tender and precious ones.
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yeah i’m happy to have a temperate island climate. summer not too hot (usually) and winter not too cold (usually!)…
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My favorite this week is the anemone! Ny neighbor has them in her yard and they spill over her pathways everywhere! Looks so cottagey to me! I had too many photos to do a proper SOS post this week, but I did finish the writings on the Cheekwood Gardens if you care to take a look! That post is here. https://thecadyluckleedy.com/2020/10/17/cheekwood-estate-and-gardens-nashville-tennessee/
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A very colourful and interesting garden.
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yes the white anemones are a cottage garden favourite
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Must get some sedum, and as always am jealous of your clematis. Here’s a very quick six from me https://theoptimisticgardener.wordpress.com/category/6-on-saturday/
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you totally should.
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Nice to see Honorine Jobert. It’s a fantastic autumn plant in my climate, too, and I love it much more than the pinkish varieties.
Today I’ll be busy attempting to fit all the tropical plants back into the greenhouse for the winter. They never fit.
My Six documents this year’s big garden project: construction of a chicken coop and run.
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my greenhouse is already pretty full. I need to move the hardy stuff out to make room for the tender stuff. too many small plants…
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Checking in for this week. Interesting to see all the things having a second go at flowering. I will have to check back on’Bill’ as he is on my possibles wish list. Still haven’t quite settled into block editor but thanks to Jim I’ve cracked one of my glitches – only to find another. This week I couldn’t find tags! Here’s my link https://wp.me/p97pee-EE
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bill is a great clematis, although i wish he wasn’t that particular shade of yellow. beggars can’t be choosers…
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What a lot of violas, but then again they are such worthwhile flowers for brightening up areas. They should look great with the tulips. I can quite understand why you have more than one Sedum. It is a gorgeous colour. Lucky second flush of Clematis and roses. With our wetter winter a few of the plants have put on growth spurts well before spring. Very unusual.
Here is the link to my SoS: https://hairbellsandmaples.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-w42-a-topknot/
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so long as all that lush new growth doesn’t attract the pests!
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Always inspirational….up late as watching the election results here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Jacinda in for a second term and my six this week https://basia329.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-17-10-20/
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She was a shoo in. Did Labour win outright?
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Yes they did!
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Hi there, that Sedum is ace I’m going to have that one too or do I mean more than one. Anyway here’s my small offering SoS https://gardeningmyway.home.blog/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-17th-oct-2020/
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I laughed at your comments about the Honorine Jobert because I’ve done exactly the same thing. It looked at its best about two or three weeks ago when I must have had too many other things to choose from. Anyway it didn’t make the cut. This week, when it could have had star billing – one measly flower!
I’m very jealous of your viola bargain!
Here’s my link for this week
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2020/10/crimson-and-gold.html
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Nice begonia leaf. Propagate sedum? It does a good enough job of spreading itself. I’ve got enough autumn joy now to have patches all along the border. I now need my dark leaved variety to spread as much.
For this week’s six I’ve been reading Derek Jarman’s the garden, so I’m looking at elements of my garden inspired by his very different garden. https://wp.me/p7AXpE-2NB
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That’s a lot of Violas, one of my favourite for winter pots. My Mme. J C is covered with dozens of buds so will, hopefully, look like yours next week🤞 Enjoy your weekend in the garden
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Enjoyed reading your post this week Jon, and smiled when you described your interest in the violas as much as the containers. Here are my 6; https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2020/10/in-front-garden-mid-october-six-on.html
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Good morning. The posts seem to have a similar theme of plants extending their flowering season, or starting again from scratch! The sedums do look good, mine are even darker. Have a good weekend.
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Hello, yes we shall enjoy it while it lasts. No sign of frosts yet…
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Snap with the anemone. I’ve been wondering about violas and tulips – is it fine to cover the pots of bulbs with planting – would certainly make for a longer lasting display. Sorry I haven’t been here for a while. Life getting in the way, but nice to be back!
https://carrotsandcalendula.co.uk/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-so-its-been-a-while/
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The tulips will poke through no bother. Just means the pots won’t look empty for months. Welcome back!
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Watering, who knew hey? My six are here, https://digwithdorris.wordpress.com
Thanks for hosting and enjoy your gardening
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It’s a miracle.
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Begonia leaf cuttings haven’t worked for me yet, did you do a ‘how to’ at the time? I made the same discovery about watering this year with regard to blackcurrants. I’ve never needed to water them before but what a difference it’s made to the new growth they’ve produced. Here’s my six: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-2ye
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I did not, have got out of the habit of doing blog posts like that, must try harder. Basically you cut the leaf up into sections, aiming for a thick bit of vein at the bottom. Plonk into open compost and leave it. Should root at the base. I had a bag over the pot. I’ll do again next year.
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Good golly gosh… when I landed on your homepage I was met with this sight… and I immediately thought… OH no, the rules have changes – I’ve done something wrong and now the rules have changed!!
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No, all the same! I forgot to choose an image for the header so it picked the first one.
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😁 All part of the fun!! 😂
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We had something of an . . . incident at work this week. Vegetation management can be such a hassle.
‘Honorine Jobert’ Japanese anemone is rad. Did you share this one recently. I know the name, perhaps because it is a popular white anemone. I have not grown any here yet. There is a sickly pink Japanese anemone already here that does ‘reasonably’ well where it is. I should grow some copies to put in other spots. If I find a spot that it is very happy in, I would be less hesitant to get a white Japanese anemone.
Clematis of all sorts finish very early here. They bloom so briefly that I would rather grow something else. Yet, out of the blue, two were blooming when we got back from evacuation, and are still bloomine with a few flowers. I had seen them bloom late before, but never ‘this’ late.
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Ohh an incident. Sounds alarming.
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It was quite ‘shocking’. I worked in the same area today, and the electricity is not reconnected yet.
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I have tried begonia leaf cuttings, it doesn’t work for all varieties and I have had quite a few failures. I will rather have to try it again in the heating bench because now the temperatures are too cool.
Very pretty anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’ which is bright and elegant. Here is my choice this weekend : https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-17-10-20/
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Yes always worth another go. I will try it with ‘glowing embers’ in the spring.
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Nice to see Clematis ‘Mme Julia Correvon’ making a second appearance for you – it’s one I really love. Mine is rather dead looking at the moment, taken off the fence to accommodate the new fence being built and painted, it’s in a sorry state.
I see you have ‘The Pilgrim’ rose! Great to read your comments about how well it has grown because I will be planting it (bare root) here this morning. Thanks for spilling the secret too, that regular feeding and water will make it grow. 😂 I’ll be sure to follow your advice.
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I expect your clematis will be fine, I bet you see new growth in January.
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Thanks! I’ll stop obsessing over them now. 😊
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That vibrant clematis is a standout, Jon. Honorine Jobert is unstoppable, here too. Nice Six. Mine show the change in seasons this week: https://gardensatcoppertop.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-october-17/
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Winter is coming!
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Here’s my offering this week, a chara.https://growwriterepeat.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-lismore-castle-gardens/
Your single anemone is striking. At this time of year we might be drawn to the single remaining flower & be grateful.
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Yes, happy to see them.
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Morning all! Autumn is definitely with us. My six: https://peerlessgardening.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-17-10-2020/
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It sure is.
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Very amusing, thought provoking blog. I’m waiting for the day to get bright enough to take photos in the garden. I think rain after a parched summer has caused clematis to carry on flowering. I’ll see if I can include a photo of mine, with added interest from bindweed as well.
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See you later then!
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Those violas really were a bargain and it’s a great idea to plant them over the tulips. It’s reminded me I need to seek out some winter bedding plants. Here are my six. Some plants that like yours are refusing to let autumn get then down, others that are preparing to flower this winter. Oh and I’ve taken some cuttings – hope you’re proud of me!
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/autumn-garden-still-with-plenty-to-give/
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I am!
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You can never have too many violas. Bargain too. I think I’m going to have a go at taking some root cuttings of my ‘Honorine Jobert’ as, despite the dire warnings, it hasn’t spread https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-17-october-2020/
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Honorine is very well behaved. It’s the pink ones that spread about.
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I am like the pictures of the Autumn Joy. Any sedums I have in that genre (not going to mention the H word) seem to succumb to the damp and slugs and snail quickly. Smashing to see you getting a second flush of the flowers on the Clematis. Here is my six. https://sedumsdahliasandhayfever.com/2020/10/17/six-on-saturday-17th-october-2020/
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I need to keep mentioning the H word so that it finally gets into my brain!
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