And just like that, it’s nearly the end of June and the nights are drawing in! Ok ok it’s not winter yet, we have a few months of good garden weather, in theory. it is time for Six on Saturday. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything, a flower, a job to do, a problem to solve, a pest, a weed, anything at all. Join in!
Here are my Six for this week.
1 – Clematis recta purpurea. A herbaceous form of clematis, this dies back to the ground every winter. I grew this from seed three or four years ago. It remained quite small, but I planted it out a couple of years ago. Last year it sprawled about the place but didn’t do anything terribly impressive. This year it is more worthy of its place, a few feet high and flowering quite nicely. The foliage is more purple green than the green this photo implies.


2 -Bean frame. The veg plot is a bit of a mess at the moment, and rather weedy too, but the beans are doing ok. I built this rather Heath Robinson affair a month or two back. Loosely modelled on a more robust Munty Frame, the idea is the beans grow up the back then over the “roof”, but you can grow other things underneath them. The runners are on the right, quite tall now, the climbing beans are on the left, a lot shorter but catching up. I will be interested to see how it copes when the bean plants have fully grown, I fear a strong wind might topple the lot. I have added two big poles to give it a bit more strength, but we shall see.

3 – Allium ‘Summer Drummer’. These are now very tall, getting on for seven feet, certainly they are taller than me and I’m fairly tall. As the name suggests they do flower later than most alliums. The flower heads are eventually the size of a fist, but they are more the size of a decent conker at the moment. I actually planted these two years ago but they didn’t do much last year, just flopped about like failed leeks. I was pleasantly surprised to see reappear this year and even more so when they grew more or less upright.

4 – Foxgloves, Pam’s choice, or variations on a theme. Some of these I grew from seed last year, some I bought cheap in the garden centre. I like a foxglove. They flowered late this year, normally they are done in May. These are nearly finished now actually, I have been selective in my photography. I will dig them up and replace with dahlias or possibly tithonia, or even ricinus. I have a few things to choose from. I have grown more foxgloves this year, those will get planted out in October, replacing the replacements. And on it goes.



5 – Rose ‘The Pilgrim’. This climber has suddenly gone into overdrive, flowering with gusto. I need to get in there and dead head a bit. One of three roses growing in containers against this bit of wall, all of which are doing fantastically well. I planted it two or three years ago and it has established very well, growing to cover quite a lot of wall.


6 – Sanguisorba menziesii. Another plant grown from seed 3 or 4 years ago. It did barely anything in year 1, planted in the ground year 2. Last year it put on a bit of growth but didn’t flower. This year as you can see it has pulled itself together, at least to the extent that it has flowered. It is planted in the shady border, but right on the edge where it gets a little bit of sun in the afternoon. I am hopeful that this year it will form a decent clump and earn its front row spot.


Those are my Six, what are yours? If you’d like to have a go just publish your post and pop a link to it in the comments below. If you also mention my blog in yours that would splendid. For more details you can read the brief participant guide.
Have a super gardening weekend. Assuming my 2nd covid jab doesn’t lay me low, I shall be mainly weeding and trying to make vertical once more those plants which I failed to adequately support ahead of the heavy rain. Don’t forget to check back later as more links get added during the day.
Stay safe, I’ll be back next weekend with another #SixOnSaturday.
So happy to hear you’re getting your second Covid jab, and wish you well. We were advised to drink lots of water before and after to help with the side effects. Other than feeling a bit tired (what gardener doesn’t, this time of year?) we had no problems and were so grateful to have it. Your garden looks lovely, as always. I’m in envy of your beautiful rose. I read the new David Austin catalogs each year, knowing that roses are tough to keep going in our garden between the climate and the critters. Always wonderful to see someone else enjoying an abundant crop of roses. Instead of writing about starting plants this week, I’m focusing on controlling those growing ‘too well.’ Maybe a good problem to have, but it sure takes a lot of time and effort.
Stay well, WG
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Thanks, generally fine, although I did need a long snooze after lunch. Not much gardening done today, but managed to spray my roses (foliar feed).
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Your garden is looking lovely as always. I am very interested in your bean frame and look forward to an update and photo in due course. No post from me today. I had masks on my mind instead… And I already felt gardenly virtuous as I spent Thursday morning slogging away getting plants in before a big rainstorm. Funny how one’s mind works.
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I succumbed! A late post is here, complete with buchu, borage and sweetpeas: https://onewordhere.blogspot.com/2021/06/six-on-saturday-2021-06-26-southern.html
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I’m screeching in here at the very end of the day today! I’ve seen so many people posting their ‘Six on Saturday’ that it intrigued me to join in!
Your Sanguisorba menziesii is pretty darn neat. It is a pity how much patience is necessary to fully enjoy them, though! I’m only very new to growing flowers from seed (pumpkins and sunflowers don’t really count since they are so easy!). 🙂 Dana
Here’s my link: https://mominthegarden.com/2021/06/26/a-simple-six-on-saturday/
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I missed last week so here’s my attempt to make up https://peerlessgardening.wordpress.com/2021/06/14/six-on-saturday-26-6-2021/
I love Sanguisorba they sort of remind me of kids’ sweet.
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Your foxgloves are beautiful. I have them in my blog this week too – https://thegarrett.garden/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-june-26th/
Thanks!!
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I am waiting to see the Allium, it looks spectacular. Interesting the Sanguisorba, given where it is from I will never see one here, though I love yours. Thank you for hosting..https://theshrubqueen.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-tropical-treats/
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Your Allium ‘Summer Drummer’ looks SO different from my ‘Ambassador.’ My ‘Purple Sensation’ only survived one year. Your foxglove is lovely. Here’s mine:
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Oh wow! It’s that fancy link! Woohoo! If only I could remember how I made it.
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Hope the second jab went well. The chap who gave me mine wasn’t as good as the first one, I felt it go in, but only a slight achy arm for a day or two afterwards. Let’s just hope these things last for a while! A lovely six from you – I don’t know how you find the time to look after all these plants AND a veggie bed! I’m sharing a project this week, a work in progress, but hopefully it won’t be another two years before completion!
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Fine thanks, still in the land of the living! The veg plot plays a very distant second fiddle to the rest of the garden. Apart from anything else it’s a bit shady. I often think I might just make it a cold frame area for improved propagating…
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Sounds perfect for a nursery bed…
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I love the Sanguisorba. Reminds me a bit of my daughter’s pet hedgehog.
Here are my six. Lots of flaming hot colors in the summer garden.
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Lol, every year my bean wigwams and tents succumb to late summer rain and wind, once they are fully loaded. I try to put the posts in deeper each time, but it never seems to be enough, so I hope that your sturdy posts do the trick. Your patience with that sanguisorba paid off. It is lovely.
Here are my six: https://wp.me/pM8Y1-8jt
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I finally gave up and bought a bean tower made of galvanized metal. It looks a bit like an escaped umbrella clothesline, but at least it doesn’t collapse
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I’ve been enjoying the foxgloves too. Also, I love your sanguisorba, it’s such a lovely colour. I have one but it has no blooms on it yet.
Here are my six: https://wildberryflora.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-6/
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I don’t think I’ve really paid attention to the mottling inside a foxglove before! Good luck to the tall non-leeks.
Looking forward to what will undoubtedly be more flowers next week!
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Congratulations on your second vaccine. I won’t be gardening this weekend. It’s going to be too hot. Hot like in 111 and 112. That’s not even hot, that’s just ridiculous.
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2021/06/six-on-saturday-and-pink-things-june-26.html
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Finally N20 turns up, back from a week in Suffolk and of course a stop off at the Beth Chatto Gardens. Lovely foxgloves, lovely rose, totally agree with you on slow sanguisorbas – mine might just be forming a clump after three years. In the N20 garden it is all about the Fifth Birthday of the garden in my care. Take a peek https://n20gardener.com/2021/06/18/six-on-saturday-happy-birthday-garden/
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Happy Birthday to your garden!
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My son’s father is in the hospital, dying, after getting the jab. Now why in God’s name would you get an experimental jab that will not prevent the illness, that will not stop you from getting the illness, and in fact the odds are really good that it will kill you. So good luck, glad you fully researched this. It is gene therapy and meant to depopulate and it’s working. Hope you don’t have family, or maybe you’ll all go together. Stupid!
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I’m sorry about your son’s father, i am, but for the rest of it, seriously, fuck off you loon!! And when you get there, fuck off some more! I’m so sick off all the woo woo nut job conspiracy utter bullshit. Get over yourself.
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I rather like the ‘crozier’ stage of Allium Summer Drummer in my friend’s garden, and seeing them yesterday they are the ‘lance’ stage and again very tall. Well done on growing Sanguisorba from seed, you are an inspiration. Here is my SOS: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2021/06/six-on-saturday-26-june-2021.html
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Thanks, patience is a virtue and all that!
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Ace Six on Saturday, Rose Pilgrim super showy yellow.
http://gardeningmyway.home.blog/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-26th-june-21/
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There are some fabulous foxgloves around these days, I just bought four different ones I have never seen before. ‘Pam’s Choice’ is lovely. I love the Sanguisorba too. Here is my offering https://thebloominggarden.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-the-day-of-the-triffids/
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There are, I have some perennial foxgloves coming soon I think.
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Hello from Canada – while our west coast is sweltering these days with record breaking heat, here in southern Ontario we have a day with lots of welcome rain, much humidity and warm temperatures. Perfect for the garden, and for me to stay indoors for a change.
I love that Sanguisorba menziesii, and the Allium! Six feet tall for your Six on Saturday! I NEED to find a source over here!!
https://countygardening.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-26-06-2021-tough-and-colourful/
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Good luck with your allium hunting!
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Just found a source – 10 for $10 – about 6 pounds
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Similar here, go for it! Buy 50…
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🙂
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I’ve not had so many Foxgloves this year but they are certainly tall. Looking forward to seeing Summer Drummer in its full glory. Hopefully, you’ll not have any side effects from your jab 🤞
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Hope so too…
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Happy Saturday everyone! May the weekend be super for you all.
Intended cycling today but it’s turned cool, breezy and there’s a light mist. I’ve abandoned the idea in favour of light weeding.
https://growwriterepeat.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-june-26/
The bean structure is… holding up, Jon! Fingers crossed.
I’ve seen the Pilgrim rose recommended by my local garden centre. I’m archiving my wishlist, and starting another.
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Yep, so far so good. See how it is with the weight of 30 fully grown bean plants plus, I hope, beans…
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Morning all!
I am very impressed with that bean supporting structure, and I hope it does well for you.
I’ve not had much luck with foxgloves this year, yours are wonderful.
My collection for this week includes birds in the pond, bees on the treacle berry, and cherries on the tree. https://doingtheplan.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-cherries-and-chiffchaffs-in-a-wildlife-friendly-cottage-garden/
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Thanks, fingers crossed it is sheltered enough in there.
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I’m a big fan of heath robinson garden solution and very intrigued to see how the “up and over” growing works. Is the idea that they grow up, over and then downwards?
I’m doing a greenhouse feature this week – partly because it’s rained a fair bit this week and is dry in there and partly because there’s some good stuff in there.
Happy weekend everyone!
https://www.teabreakgardener.co.uk/the-greenhouse-in-summer/
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No, just up and over. Supposedly they crop better like this.
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I like it! hoping you have a bumper crop.
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What caught my eye this week is your Rosa The Pilgrim! It is looking lovely covering that wall! I too like Foxgloves, and have a number of seedlings waiting to be planted out. Luckily for me they seem to tolerate the high heat and humidity of summer, going on to produce their beautiful flowers in spring. That bean support is quite a structure, and it will be interesting to see the beans gradually growing along it. Here is the link to my Six:
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Yes the roses are generally doing very well this year.
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Good morning. I’m looking forward to seeing those alliums in flower, they should look good with that red clematis behind them. Thank you for the tour and courgette plant last week, it is replacing one that some beasts demolished recently. Here are this week’s Six-on-Saturday.
https://grannysgarden229242407.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-26-06-2021/
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Yes me too, taps feet impatiently.
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I’m rather fond of my rose The Pilgrim, but never thought of it as a wall shrub before! Love your foxgloves, they do look lovely at this time of year.
My six are here http://www.leadupthegardenpath.com/
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It is sold by David Austin as a climber, I think, unless there is also a shrub form, there might be.
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I dug out Clematis recta last year because it was in the wrong place and have a nice purple seedling that I’m undecided whether to keep or not. IT’s not an easy plant to manage, though lovely in flower. The very tall Allium might be the answer for height after foxgloves that I’ve been thinking I need. Here’s mine: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-2TS
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It is an encroacher, i think, a flopper, probably best left to grow in amongst other things, but that does offend.my sense of neatness…
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I somehow managed to click on one of your old SoSs and was thinking ‘blimey, that’s way ahead of mine’ and ‘crikey, he’s ordered his bulbs already and 1400 of them.’ It’s only when I got to the comments section and thought there were a lot of comments for so early on in the day that I checked when it was posted and realised my mistake – it was late July 2019.
The Sanguisorba looks fantastic. I think my mum gave me a small seedling of one a few years ago and it has yet to do much of anything. It sounds as though I may need to be patient. Love the yellow rose https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-26-june-2021/
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I haven’t ordered them yet, but soon!
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Looking good. Foxgloves have gone mad this year. Taller than me. Same for my similar alliums. Just reaching the height of the fence.
This week’s six comes from RHS Harlow Carr. https://wp.me/p7AXpE-2Za
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Yes mine are quite tall too.
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“Could be anything,”? “anything at all.”? Well, that is good, because that is what I sent.
‘Summer Drummer’ is one of the few alliums that is available here. That suggests that it is one of the easier sorts, or perhaps more likely to be reliably perennial here. I was not aware that it got so tall. The flowers look like they would be heavy, because they are so densely set.
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We’ll see. The stems are pretty rigid so they should stand a good size flower.
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I do not believe that I have ever seen an allium staked.
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Keeping runner beans within bounds is a perennial problem here. I have tried a slightly different method this year – two upright of approx 2 metres, set 5 metres apart and connected by a length of rope – and this repeated several times, obviously – with a plant as the base of each upright hoping they will grow up so far and then horizontally! We’ll see! I should be able to reach the high ones at least!
Here’s my weekly review: https://anirishgardener.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/the-rain-dance-and-more-besides/
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Yes, similar theory here.
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I do like the triptych of foxgloves as well as the Sanguisorba flower ( not often seen) which must not be very big…
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The flowers are maybe 5cm long, about 45cm off the ground on bare stems above a clump of serrated leaves.
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Your post today has a zen-like quality, teaching us all to be very patient when growing from seed! But you are reaping the rewards now. Interesting to see Pilgrim as a wall rose rather than a shrub: mine is the latter and gets very floppy indeed, especially with the rain. Here are my 6 this week, on a harvest theme: https://thenostalgicgardener.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-26-june-2021-harvests/
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It’s often a long game, gardening!
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Wow those alliums are tall! I didn’t know such a thing existed. The rose is looking gorgeous – as are all those foxgloves. I’ve got a couple of Sanguisorba which I moved to the front of the border this year where they aren’t making much of an impact. I bought mine a good few years ago and they are still the same size. It’s a pretty plant though.
The roses are out at last so there are lots of Rose garden pictures this week
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2021/06/raindrops-on-roses-and-whiskers-on.html
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No me either. And they are taller than I expected by a good couple of feet.
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A 7ft allium, oh Lordy! Love the sanguisoba and The Pilgrim is one of my favourite roses. All looking good. Hope the jab goes well. Here are mine https://offtheedgegardening.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-two-little-ducks/
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All good thanks, busy in the garden now, mainly taming the wisteria!
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I love foxgloves – something quite special about them. Lovely rose too. Well, we have had our shortest day so summer is on its way – well not judging by today’s weather at least! Here are my six https://basia329.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/six-on-saturday-26-06-21/
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Won’t be long before we’re jealous of your bulbs being out!
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Hello! Love the Sanguisorba. They strike me as slightly eccentric plants for some reason…
Here’s my Six:
https://kindheartsandcorydalis.co.uk/six-on-saturday-26th-june/
Enjoy your weekend!
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Slow is what they are! Supposedly they form a good clump. Eventually…
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