I shall be brief as I’m busy decorating. Still. I’m on a mission, and anyway the weather has been too rubbish for much gardening.
1 – Dahlia, pinkun. I bought this for 50p a couple of months ago. The blooms were nearly all.faded but I thought with a bit of deadheading it’ll be fine. Well it was fine. Eventually.
2 – Sweet peas. I may have gone overboard on the sweet peas for 2021. I’ve sown two per root trainer module, so 64 seeds/plants, but then I doubled up with a whole other root trainer system. I may have 128 plants next year. Oops. As you can see they are already up in numbers, those collected fresh this year being most enthusiastic.
3 – Cercis canadensis ‘forest pansy’. The victim, I think, of wind scorch on a hot windy day, half the leaves fell off at once, just on one side. The rest are doing what they’re supposed to do , colouring up nicely.
4 – Cyclamen (not pelargonium) leaf.
5 – Hydrangea ‘annabel’, faded glory.
6 – Rose ‘zsouvenir du Dr Jamain’. A cracker, by all accounts, splendid fragrance and perfect for a shady spot. Planted just last weekend it is just beginning to put out some baby shoots.
That’s yer lot from me for this week, normal service to be resumed next weekend.
The Propagator 
My first time with Six on Saturday. It’s surprising how much there is to share, even as the garden goes to sleep here. https://spruceknobgarden.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-snowy/
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I love the forest pansy and agreed rubbish weather for gardening or anything much. My six are about my garden visit. https://digwithdorris.wordpress.com
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You are so organised with your sweet peas!.More six here https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-happy-halloween/
Happy Halloween
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What an amazing number of sweet pea seedlings. How do you support them, and prevent them getting mildew at the first signs of stress? Definitely not weather to be outside, but the decorating seems to have taken over your life.
Here’s my six: http://kasmaty.blogspot.com/2020/10/braving-wind-and-rain-for-last.html
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That’s a mammoth sweet pea production line! Love the cercis leaves, enjoy your decorating! Here are my six:
https://blogoftwogardens.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-its-definitely-autumn/
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My Six is brief too but I was away the last two weekends so pleased to make the most of a sunshine window this afternoon and have managed to do a post. Roses that like shade are always useful to know. Also you’ve reminded me to get my peas started.
https://hurtledto60.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-31-10-2020/
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That’s a bargain dahlia, to be sure! And great germination of sweet peas – I am only sowing my early flowering ones in autumn, and am still hoping for a few more coming through. Thanks for hosting. My six are here https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-silhouettes-and-structures/
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The leaves on my eastern Redbud are looking tired, but aren’t changing color yet. I’ll have to pay more attention this fall and see what they do. https://wp.me/p4Y6ke-2J7
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I usually plant my sweet peas in spring, but just yesterday was reading about how fall planting will make the plants sturdier when they bloom, so I’ve got to get on that.
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2020/10/six-on-saturday-october-31-2020.html
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You reminded me I need to plant the Sweet Peas – hope it is cool enough for them to germinate..love the Forest Pansy fall color, such a treat for me to see fall color like that. Good luck with the decor, throw the paint brushes away. I always use foam and my husband curses about throwing them away…https://theshrubqueen.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-the-orange-challenge/
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I made it! All my Forest Pansy leaves have fallen and the acers are naked too, they didn’t have much chance in this wind. Lovely to see the sweet pea shoots, so unlike you to over-do it! 🙂 Here are mine https://offtheedgegardening.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-battered/
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That dahlia is such a beautiful pink, and that is definitely a lot of sweet peas! It will be lovely.
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You have the Cercis of my dreams. Mine is an absolute monster. I’ve renamed it ‘thuggus giganticus’. It puts on 6 feet of new growth overnight. Vigorous is an understatement. Here’s my link. https://pruneplantsow.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/sixonsaturday-october-31st-a-spooky-surprise/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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New style link seems to work. As you may deduce I am having fun with Block Editor!
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Are you sure about number 4? It kind of resembles a cyclamen leaf?
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Yeah it is, got my photos mixed up. I’ve corrected it
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Oops, no sweet peas sown here, Yet!! Souvenir of the Dr is fab but has not taken to my garden. Or should I say to the current location in my garden. One more year and then it may be on the move. Good luck with yours. Awful weather for gardening so I hope your decorating goes well. Here’s my link https://n20gardener.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/six-on-saturday-something-for-halloween/ Interesting that looks different to the usual link. I may be back again with another version!!
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Love the Cyclamen leaves – the serrated edges in particular. They look like miniature, organic table saw blades. I transplanted a rose a month or so ago and it, too, started sending out new shoots. I wonder if that’s such a good thing in my climate – it’s -6 right now!
https://countygardening.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-tomorrow-is-november/
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Hi all,
Beautiful autumn colours this week, especially that pink’un. I’ve been mostly busy lately, but managed to gather a few nuts and get a few garden snaps before the rain got really heavy… Happy Samhain! https://doingtheplan.com/2020/10/31/six-on-samhain/
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Liking the Cercis leaves. I’ve a H. Vanilla Fraise that’s looking much the same. Wow, lots of sweet peas, which reminds me I was going to sow some this weekend, perhaps tomorrow. It’s awful weather. Besides I’ve some DIY to do inside, and I don’t need to go outside to get anything to do the work, hmmm, wondering whether I did think ahead for once 🙂 Happy decorating to you, too. Cheers for now.
here’s Six on Saturday https://gardeningmyway.home.blog/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-31st-oct-2020/
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Bit later than normal for me but I was….at the theatre. Yes really! It was a wet day, so a very brief post from me too https://basia329.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-31-10-20/
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The theatre! Like a far off dream….
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You have planted my favourite rose, ‘Souvenir du Docteur Jamain’, an absolutely gorgeous thing, the deepest and richest red and a fabulous fragrance. It’s a martyr to blackspot though and needs to be given plenty of air. You’ll enjoy it very much.
It’s a case of more wind and rain here with us this morning. There was certainly a clearing of leaves overnight and trees had already looked bare. Fortunately, I had been diligent in photographing those which were most attractive to me during the past week so have captured them in time.
We continue in lockdown here in Ireland and it seems this will be the case for much of Europe as numbers affected by the Covid19 virus climb at an alarming rate. I hope you all stay safe and well, in good health, and that you can enjoy your gardens. Best wishes. Paddy
https://anirishgardener.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/saturdays-look-back/
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Great, looking forward to the rose. Its not in a terribly airy spot. I hope the rose tonic will keep the black spot away.
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Good luck with the decorating projects, and thanks for squeezing in the Six on Saturday too. I think the Cercis leaves look beautiful. I can’t think why I don’t have one in my garden. The same goes for Dr Jamain. I can’t understand how I’ve managed without one of those too. I’m looking forward to seeing how yours gets on.
Here’s my Six for this week
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/
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Morning! Well done for managing to squeeze a turn round the garden into your decorating week! And all power to your sweet pea-sowing elbow; they look great!
I’ve gone fully off-piste this week and am illegally sharing my latest mental health maintenance project: making Christmas candles! Do feel free to skip!!
https://mysecretgarden61808037.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/sixonsaturday-light-in-the-darkness/
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Good morning. That dahlia is lovely. You must have a good eye for bargains and promising rejects. Look after your sweet peas, you really won’t need to buy any other plants for next year, will you?
The reports I have received regarding your decorating are very positive. Well done. Have a good weekend.
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-31-10-2020/
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I’m not going to believe that’s a pelargonium until I see a picture of the whole plant, with flowers and a label, if that’s a pelargonium I want one. I fully sympathise with excess sweet peas, what were you to do with the seed otherwise? throw it away? If you’d have sown less the germination would have been poor. Nerines with me this week. https://wp.me/p6bCCa-2zW
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Dya know what, I think it is a cyclamen. I took pics of both and only used one. Will check later!!
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That a cracking lot of sweetpeas Jon..don’t worry everyone else has said what I would have. I can only dream of having a cercis underplanted with coums. The worst bit of decorating is washing out the brushes afterwards..so we managed to argue that with the time taken to do this, and with all the chemicals and water used which goes down the drain, it is more environmentally friendly to throw the brushes away. This is based on my horror of doing this and the damage to my hands..Here are my SOS: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2020/10/in-garden-at-end-of-october-six-on.html
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haha I only sowed four little pots of sweet peas, I normally wait till spring but this year I thought I’d follow Monty and do a mini trial autumn sowing. They are spending the winter in the mini greenhouse. Here’s my six for this week, Cotinus looking quite flash: https://thenostalgicgardener.com/2020/10/29/six-on-saturday-31-october-2020/
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My six for this week, Autumn Acers: https://peerlessgardening.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-31-10-2020/
I’ll pop back later to have a read of everyone’s – happy weekending!
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Cercis is such a gorgeous tree, both flowers and leaves. I hope the decorating goes well, we were very relieved to get the painting of our house over and done with. Here are my six: http://janesmudgeegarden.com/throngs-of-colour-sos-october-31-2020/
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I have found Cercis to be a bit brittle, losing branches easily, so that the one I grow here is now a very peculiar shape – beautiful nonetheless!
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If your weather is anything like here in North Somerset then staying indoors is a great idea. I nearly bought a ‘Forest Pansy’ the other day but really can’t find a space for it. Time to reorganise! Again! I also thought the Pelargonium was a Cyclamen, such a beautiful leaf
https://thequiltinggardener.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-31-10-20/
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I hope you get the decorating finished soon but you picked the right week for indoor jobs. I agree the weather has been inclement so I’ve been hanging out in the greenhouse again. This week I waved goodbye to my big Brugmansia and tucked in the date palms, pineapples and a tree dandelion for the winter.
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/winter-under-glass-six-on-saturday/
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How early are your sweet peas! I haven’t sown mine yet. Enjoy your weekend and if you have a little time you can read my blog post here: https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-31-10-20 /
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I usually sow mid October. End of October at the latest. They will spend the winter in the unheated greenhouse.
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Lovely dahlia – you know how to get a bargain, but perhaps you could have your own plant sale, I’m sure your neighbours would snap up any of your surplus sweets peas when they’re ready. The colour and shape of the Cercis leaves are gorgeous. Happy decorating!
https://notesfrommygarden.co.uk/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-2020-31-10/
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https://tonytomeo.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-there-goes-the-neighborhood/
This time, I violated my self imposed word limit of 300. I felt compelled to share these pictures because a few have asked me about the situation here.
Cracker?!
Pelargonium?!
Cracker does not sound so bad when someone else uses it in that particular context. I mean, it ‘sounds’ like it must mean something good.
The pelargonium looks like a cyclamen.
It took me a minute to realize that the pronunciation of the name of the rose was not as complicated as it initially looked. I just omitted the ‘z’.
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Yes, typo in the rose. Here cracker means something fabulous. As in “that’s a cracker”. Dictionary.com says:
British slang a thing or person of notable qualities or abilities.
Yes it is a pelargonium (often erroneously called geraniums), I bought a few with good leaf colouration.
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Cracker used to refer to someone from the old ‘South’, but for an unpleasant reason. Not many people know where that word came from, or what it means. It was derived from a slave driver who cracked a whip.
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Might be cyclamen, took pics of both and only included one, may have them mixed up…
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That 50p dahlia turned out to be a beauty. I hope the decorating is finished soon. I hate decorating and it seems to take a lot more coats of paint to end up with a none-patchy wall these days https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-31-october-2020/
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I’ve found B&q own brand GoodHome “durable” wall paint reliably requires only one coat. I hate decorating too, but I hate paying someone else to do it too…
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Those sweet peas should provide quite a show. Love the heart-shaped cercis leaf and all the promise contained in that new rose. here’s my contribution — https://gardensatcoppertop.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-october-31/
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I’ll end up giving half the sweet peas away….
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128 sweet peas! Better go get a few more vases, a chara. I’ve got seven. 😀
My offering this week has heathers, lettuce, verbena and other bits & bobs…
https://growwriterepeat.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-halloween/
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7! Good god man you’re not even trying!
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I’ll do better. 😀😀
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Enjoy the decorating… and yes, the weather is turning decidedly anti-gardening of late!! Happy November! 😁😁
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“Enjoy the decorating…”. Hardly…
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😂😂😂
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That’s a little bit of an extreme level of sweet peas. Did two packs last year and it was far too many. Have loads away.
This week’s six looking at making an autumn planter. https://30daysofwildparenting.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/six-on-saturday-31-10-20-autumn-planter/
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