June already then, that went fast. It is nice to have the long light evenings. As I write this on Friday evening I note I still have muddy fingers from planting out a few things at 8:30pm. I have been off work this week, there has been much pottering. As fast as I remove plants from the greenhouse and try to find somewhere to plant them, I am adding more in. It’s never ending. Entirely my own fault, of course…
Time for Six on Saturday. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything, a flower, a pest, a problem, a success, a job to do, anything at all. Join in!
Here are my Six for this week…
1 – Rose ‘Ali Baba’. This rose has come on leaps and bounds in just the last three months, topping out the six foot fence against which it is growing. There are lots of thick new stems that will need training in over the winter. A little part of me is keen to do it now but I will wait until I can see what I’m doing.
2 – Summer bedding plugs. I was unable to resist a significant price reduction to just a fiver for 72 plugs. Obviously I bought 3 packs, more you spend, more you save. They arrived on Thursday afternoon, I spent a couple of hours potting them on into whatever modules I had spare, and when those ran out, 9 to a half seed tray. They are an assortment of gazania, lobelia, begonia, bacopa, petunias, busy lizzies, nicotiana – the usual suspects really. I’m hoping they will quickly grown on to a size worth planting out. They will mainly go into pots and containers I think.
3 – Geranium ‘Brookside’ and a friend. I think it’s Brookside, I don’t seem to have labelled it. I’ve added 5 or 10 geraniums a year the last two or three years. I like them a lot, they flower like crazy, the foliage is great, there’s a lot of variety in the forms and colours, and best of all they are unbothered by Messrs Slug and Snail.
4 – Alliums, various. It is at this time of year I always regret not having planted three or four times as many alliums as I actually did. I want to see them ebb and flow throughout every border. I mean the leaves are an utter disgrace, but we can forgive them that for the perky flowers and the decorative seed heads that follow.
5 – Iris versicolor. I grew these from seed a few years ago. They were getting swamped by taller plants so a month or so ago I moved them to a different spot. They have responded by sulking and not putting on much in the way of further growth. They are thus flowering quite low down, and yes, swamped by nearby plants. I tried.
6 – Rose/Clematis combination. This is Mme Alfred Carriere and Rebecca getting up to mischief, two naughty girls in the one container. For reasons best known to Rebecca, she is not reaching for the sky. I have one in the ground elsewhere in the garden that routinely gets to 8′ tall. In this incarnation she is stubbornly staying down below, so the colours aren’t mixing in quite the way I had hoped. It won’t matter for long as the earwigs will soon eat all the clematis flowers…
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 triffic. For more details you can read the brief participant guide.
Have a super gardening weekend, I hope you get done what you need to get done. I have a lot of planting still to do, that will be my main job this weekend. It’ll take a long time, there will be much pondering and hunting for hitherto unspotted, microscopically small spaces into which I might jam a plant.
Stay safe, I’ll be back next weekend with another #SixOnSaturday.
Really love your rose / clematis combination. And your alliums are way ahead of mine. Here are more six https://murtaghsmeadow.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-5th-june/
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Haha – yes, I am becoming an expert in hunting for hitherto unspotted, microscopically small spaces!! Good luck with your search – I have rediscovered a good local source of very reasonable bedding plants so have been making more purchases this week too, but have mostly replaced some less worthy occupants of pots to fit them in. My 6 are here https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-not-all-visitors-are-pink/
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I too have been searching for spaces in my borders to fill. I have so many seedlings here and not enough space for them.
Here are my six which also include some allium appreciation:
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I too have Allium regret – I told myself I was going for stylish little groupings, but now I just want them plastered everywhere.
My six: https://peerlessgardening.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-5-6-2021/
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Love the Alliums, there is nothing else like them. Do they smell oniony if you cut them? I would have vases of them in the house. Here is mine https://theshrubqueen.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-forking-around/
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They do smell quite oniony if you get up close and personal.
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I have never lived far enough north to grow Allium.
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That clematis/rose combination is genius! Here’s my Six this week: https://stoneyknob.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/sos-the-excitement-is-growing/
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Goodness, it’s like the flowers never end in your garden! Is there ever a day where there isn’t at least a dozen blooms?
Looking forward to the next week’s plants!
https://mindfulfoliage.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-5-jun-2021/
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In this climate I pay for it with 3 or months of brown over the winter.
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A classic rose/clematis combination! Rebecca is a beautiful colour. Hope she continues to do well for you. I agree with your feelings on alliums, both the wishing I’d planted more and the mess the leaves make.
Here are my six: https://wp.me/pM8Y1-8hT
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I rather like the layers of rose and clematis. It’s rather striking, more so than if the 2 were intermingled. Here’s minehttps://pruneplantsow.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/sixonsaturday-june-5th/
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Here’s a link that works.
https://pruneplantsow.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/sixonsaturday-june-5th/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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Beautiful plants and flowers – we are renting a condo – soon our new home will be done and we can get back to having green – muddy thumbs! LOL Thank you for the pictures!
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Such industry! All those plugs! I am looking at a week ahead of enforced industry as I have a load of hypoestes aristata, buchu and other stuff I’ve forgotten, to collect at Kirstenbosch. That and other silly stuff: https://onewordhere.blogspot.com/2021/06/six-on-saturday-2021-06-05-southern.html
Your garden is looking handsome! I can’t quite get my head around how you do it, when winter just about lays the garden bare, but well done 😉
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Beautiful iris. I don’t have much luck with them for some reason. Great bargain on the plugs too. Here’s my six https://greengirlgardener.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-5th-june/
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You are super bad! All those plug plants, I am exhausted just looking at them. Have fun – I know you will. I think Rebecca is fabulous – I could be tempted but its probably out of stock now! Here’s my link – my new favourite rose Tess of the D’Urbervilles, your Thalictrum BS recommendation from a few years back – a winner. And of course four more delights. https://n20gardener.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-zoom-zoom-zoom/
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That rose is huge and so beautiful. Am so impressed you’re still buying tiny plugs at this stage of the game – and that you’ll have room for them all! Enjoy the weekend!
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Yes that is why they were reduced to a fraction of normal selling price. It’ll be a race to see what happens first – grow to be planted out or die for lack of water.
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That clematis is lovely, even though it’s not doing what you want. I struggle with them – never sure whether to leave them alone, cut them back or cut a bit back. They make me nervous. Can never have enough hardy geraniums, they are such good value. And all those plants on stand-by! Your enthusiasm is admirable. I am beset by couch grass at the moment….
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Your roses are looking good. Mine are still at the bud stage. I agree that geraniums are worthy plants although I find it difficult to source them unless from friends.
Here are my six: https://thirdageblogger.blogspot.com/2021/06/six-on-saturday-two-penny.html
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Cranesbill nursery, or Bluebell cottage nursery are good stockists of hardy geraniums.
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Rebecca is a lovely colour, might need to add her to my clematis list, I think I have a spot she could grow in. As for the bargain plugs, I delete those emails too. Having ordered some super plugs which were tiny IMO I am going to stick to buying annuals from the local nurseries in future. I’m trying to cut down on the number of pots I have and have bigger, but fewer ones.
Here’s my week – back in Cornwall and shrouded in mist today!
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Morning. I’ve taken to deleting the bargain plants emails straight away recently. Too much temptation! If I read them it’s fatal. Happy watering. Love the Rose/Clematis combo, even if it’s not how you visualised it.
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Wow, the roses are super – oh I am not jealous – well a little may be as I do not have any to show yet ;-( Soon though. Thanks for sharing your garden. have a great weekend .
Here’s my contribution http://gardeningmyway.home.blog/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-5th-june-21/
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Lovely roses there! Back from the theatre https://basia329.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-05-06-21/
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I think you may have been responsible for my adding Rebecca to my wanted list a couple of years back; it’s still on the list, I’ve not seen it for sale. I planted two lots of Allium in the autumn, one lot (the cheap ones) are rubbish, the others (eye-wateringly expensive) are great and I want more. Putting all those plugs into pots kicks the can down the road; next problem, where to put all the pots. You need a bigger garden. So do I: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-2Sc
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Even have. Got in the hundreds of alliums it still never feels like there is enough. I need to attack the hardy geraniums again. They are getting thuggish. Dig some up for work again. Lovely iris. Bought 2 new ones this week on garden visits.
This week’s six is from 3 different gardens as I’ve busied around over half term.
https://30daysofwildparenting.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-5-6-21-hodge-podge-edition/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
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I have been frantically planting out new shrubs and seedlings, hoping that I am not too late doing this… we are in for a cold spell of weather next week! I put in some Aliums this year, so I hope that mine flower. Yours are looking good! It is a ppity the Clematis is fowerring so low down, but it is stilll giving a great show with the rose. They are a lovelly combination!
Here is the link to my Six on Saturday: https://hairbellsandmaples.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-w20-2021-revamping-another-border/
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The rose/clematis combination is a topper. I particularly like that colour in the clematis, fabulously deep and rich.
Anyway, I hope all gardeners here are keeping well, all in good health etc and enjoying the longer days in the garden, warmer and sunnier days with lots of growth.
Here is my weekly review: https://anirishgardener.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/a-little-bit-wibbly-wobbly/
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Morning all, what lovely selections we have this week. So wonderful to see the roses out and the alliums in bloom. The Propagator’s white rose and purple clematis combo looks very much like the flowers around my front door. My selection for this week includes a MASSIVE lupin. https://doingtheplan.com/2021/06/05/lupins-and-more-for-six-on-saturday/
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Morning! Looks like it’s been / is lovely and sunny in your part of the world! The clematis are coming on in leaps and bounds here too, and I’m enjoying my first few grown from seed aquilegias. No ‘proper’ alliums but I do have chives!!! Have a lovely gardening weekend and enjoy finding homes for all those plugs! Louise https://mysecretgarden61808037.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/sixonsaturday-summer-flower-power/
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Thanks, first I have to keep them alive for a few weeks!
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I have chives too. they are magnificent display – may include next week’s Six on Saturday unless my Alliums in the border take precedence 🙂
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My goodness. Is your garden actually the tardis? I can’t imagine how you’re going to cram all those plugs in. I too have been busy planting out this week. My greenhouse seems like the magic porridge pot – the more I take out the more there is to plant.
This week I’m taking you all to the rockery to see some really pretty things, some grown from seed that have now found their stride. I’m also sharing a charming picture from 1919. Have a great day everyone.
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/june-flowering-rockery-plants/
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It does have tardis like qualities. On the basis that there is always room for one more plant, mathematically speaking there is room for an infinite number.
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Damn! I knew I had forgotten something…Alliums! My Purple Sensation seem to have disappeared and been replaced by Christophii self sown monsters. Must make a note for next year. Thanks for the reminder. Here are my six https://davidsgardendiary.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-35/
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I find they don’t last long, need to keep them topped up.
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Yes, you’re right. Made a note in my little black book!
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I share your views on how marvellous geraniums and alliums are, and how nice not to have to worry about the slugs destroying them. Finding space for 72 plugs sounds like one of the labours of Hercules, good luck! Here are my 6:
PS Hope the link works, had a few probs last week.
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72×3=216, actually…
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Make that 3 labours of Hercules!
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The hunt for empty spaces, ah a common problem, but one you have compounded with all those plug plants for sure. Your rose is looking superb. Here are my six: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2021/06/six-on-saturday-5-june-2021.html
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In my defence the plugs are not destined for the borders. If I have enough pots etc…
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I can see that you’re going to have flowers , my friend! 😂😀
The combination clematis / rose ‘Alfred Carrière ‘ is a success… Very pretty! Here is my link for the week https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-05-06-21/
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Morning Fred, yes plenty of flowers , if I can keep them alive for long enough to plant out!
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I looked at all those plugs in horror of memories of exactly the same experience, then wondered if they were still available to buy. You just can’t help some people. Love the naughty clematis and also the alliums and well the lot really. It is all go now! Here are mine, hope you enjoy them https://offtheedgegardening.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-new-friends/
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Now I just have to keep the bastard plugs alive. They will dry out in about 5 minutes flat I reckon.
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Ever vigilant. And I wouldn’t call them bastards to their face. ☺
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Here are my six, starting with the refined, and progressing to wildflowers.
How late do your clematis bloom? The foliage still looks good. There are three here, and two actually do reasonably well for our climate. The foliage gets crispy, but they somehow keep going almost through June (if I remember correctly). It would be nice if they performed better. They are so enviable.
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The foliage is usually fine throughout, but it doesn’t get too hot here (usually).
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They do not seem to mind the warmth, since they perform well in climates that get warmer than here. It is the aridity that roasts the foliage, and why they are mostly done by now here. They can bloom later, but unless they climb into other well foliage plants, they look rather shabby.
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Wow to Ali Baba. Oh to be able to grown clematis! My Rebecca snuffed it a few years ago and I think another clematis, planted last year, is on its way out… I’ll definitely be planting more though -https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-5-june-2021/
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If at first you don’t succeed!
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That link doesn’t seem to be working – not for me, at any rate!
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Thanks for pointing that out. The link address seemed to acquire a superfluous dash from somewhere. All sorted now.
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You link is dodgy, don’t think you can escape that easily, I will still find you!
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Drat!
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Hmm. Take 2… https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/six-on-saturday-5-june-2021/
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Good morning. I thought I would be first today but Kind Hearts is quicker than the rest of us. You will see that my (your) Alibaba rose is earning its space already. Good luck with hunting for empty spaces in your garden.
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72 plugs for a fiver? Bargain! I would find it hard to resist the temptation, if it wasn’t for having bought a similar load for rather more money earlier in the year. I did enjoy potting them all up but used every seed tray and cell tray I could find. Love the pictures of the roses and the alliums.
Here’s my Six for this week
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2021/06/iris-and-lupins.html
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216 for 15 quid! Who could resist…
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The Clematis/Rose combination looks very nice indeed – even if the Clematis isn’t doing as she’s told. Love the Alliums too. There never seem to be enough of them!
Here’s my Six:
https://kindheartsandcorydalis.co.uk/six-on-saturday-5th-june/
Enjoy your weekend!
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Never enough, exactly.
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