We still haven’t had a frost here, or not one to speak of. Certainly not a killing frost. I have the urge to cut stuff back, but until the frost comes it still looks mostly ok. Not excessively untidy, anyway. After the rave reviews of my last decorating job (Mrs P delighted with her reveamped home office), I will be up to my elbows in paint again this weekend, so gardening time will be limited. This time it is my turn, my office was in an even scruffier state than hers. While I’m giving myself a crick in the neck painting the ceiling, you can do Six on Saturday. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything, you decide!
Here are my Six for this week…
1 – Salvia ‘Amante’. Another salvia that I’ll hope will survive the winter in the ground. Futile, probably. I bought three of these the other week, they are still in their pots. I may keep them in the greenhouse like that over the winter and plant in the spring.
2 – Daffodils, planted. Last weekend I made some progress through the bulb mountain, getting all the daffs interred. Some went in the large wooden containers, some went in 20L tubs on the patio, and the rest went in smaller pots that I have plonked/arranged artfully on the patio table. If this works well I may get some more elegant pots but these’ll do for now. As I was taking this photo I noticed that shoots are already poking through. I feel judged.
3 – Potential rose bloom. We still have not had a hard frost, so the roses are still putting out buds. This one is Madame Alfred Carriere.
4 – Malus ‘Rudolph’. I planted this tree earlier this year. It emerged from its box festooned with blossom. I was looking forward to it being similarly festooned with shiny purple/orange crabapples. No such luck. Crap apples, more like. Perhaps it isn’t happy in its new home. The leaves look blotchy but that is likely just them dying per normal in Autumn. Could be lacking apples from blossoming in a box. We’ll see how it does next year.
5 – Fatsia japonica. This caught my again this week as I wandered about, scouting for SoS fodder. The little buds on the alien structure have blossomed, giving the whole thing a frizzier look. They wouldn’t stay still long enough for me to snap them, but the whole thing is covered in bees.
6 – Clematis ‘Nelly Moser’. Another plant that doesn’t know it’s mid-November, busy flowering away. Normally by this time of year it has been knocked back by Jack Frost.
Those are my Six, what are yours? If you’d like to have a go just publish your post and pop a link in the comments below. If you also mention my blog in yours that would be marvellous. For more details you can read the brief participant guide.
I hope you get a bit of gardening done this weekend. If I get some time between coats of paint drying, I may get some tulips planted. Don’t hold your breath.
I’ll be back next weekend for another #SixOnSaturday.
Hi. Well done for getting the decorating done and more besides.
I am in process of refurbishing the bathroom. No gardening, and no SoS sadly as other pressing matters taking time up.
The thing is I’ve bought, today, more spring flowering bulbs! Couldn’t pass up a bargain 🙂 Got get them planted soon – pots probably. Carry on the good work. All the best, Keith.
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more bulbs! last thing I need. i have several hundred tulips glowering at me in their box.
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Well I’m not going to be that adventurous this year for sure. It’s only 50 it should be straightforward to get planted 🙂
Just think about the wonderful display it will be in April May 🙂 that should spur you on to get them planted 🙂 other wonderful comments that people make next spring when I see how much effort you have put in 🙂 good luck.
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Loving the salvia, the clematis and the japonica this week. And well done for getting into those bulbs! Disturbing that you are basically frostless so far, for what it says about the generally warming state of everything, but I suppose the garden is liking it.
I’m afraid it’s Six but not on Saturday here… https://onewordhere.blogspot.com/2021/11/six-but-not-on-saturday-2021-11-14.html
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first frost is typically mid October (or has been historically). More like end of Oct the last few years, and we’re well into November now…
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I painted the deck recently, but haven’t got round to the indoor decorating yet—hope yours goes well! Here are my six while there’s still color on the trees if not elsewhere in the garden: https://dameeleanorhull.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/six-on-saturday-november/
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i finished it. of course the hallway, stairs and so on now look quite scruffy in comparison…
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I should really take a page out of your book and get some decorating/painting done! One of these days… In the meantime, Love your salvia! and here’s my link this week: https://mominthegarden.com/2021/11/13/the-show-isnt-over-yet-for-six-on-saturday/
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i don’t like doing it, but i like paying someone else to do it even less!
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Just about to do my Six-on-Saturday, sorry I’m late. I’ll do better next week.
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your tardiness is forgiven.
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Haha – I referred to your accusing bubs in my post!! https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/six-on-saturday-seasonal-stuff/
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hundreds of tulips are still sat in their box, arms folded crossly.
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Haha – makes us all of feel better though, and admittedly I don’t have hundreds! In fact, I have none at all waiting to be planted because I blitzed them today – whoohoo! 😊
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Lovely things in your garden. We’ve had a bit of frost her in Edinburgh but lots of flowers still going strong. Here’s some of the things in my garden today
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still mild here this week, colder weather coming, i gather.
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The pots of daffodils look very artful. Fatsia blossoms are beautiful in an alien way. We, too, have been experiencing mild weather withoutba decisive frost. Here are mine: https://roguegarden.wordpress.com
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colder weather coming next weekend, apparently. we’ll see.
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I remembered to plant my daffodils just a few days ago. I know you like tulips, but I don’t, so just got more daffodils and allium.
You paint ceilings? I feel for you! I think I have a few unopened gallons of ceiling paint in my shed from 2011!
Thanks for the place to share!
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2021/11/six-on-saturday-november-13-2021.html
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one of the advantages of being tall, I don’t need a ladder (although I do get a crick in my neck eventually…)
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It’s lovely to see color. I’m enjoying the color here while I can. We’re getting a hard frost tonight so I’ll be looking at shades of brown for a long time. https://stoneyknob.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/sos-fall-glow/
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yes, brown will soon be the dominant shade here too.
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Great pics of the Fatsia flowers, alien-like indeed! I’m late today, but here’s my 6:
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yes they’re funny looking buggers aren’t they.
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Ah, crabapple trees! I planted a weeping crabapple once. Beautiful blooms. Lovely fall color. Invasive as a marauding army! Here are a more congenial six: https://aftereden.blog/2021/11/13/six-on-saturday-13-november-2021/
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well no chance of that here, there are only about 5 shrivelled fruits!
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Crabapples are abundant here, with gorgeous spring flowers. The leaves on most, unfortunately, look like crap come mid summer, and then you have to deal with the fallen apples. I know some newer varieties have leaves that stay green all year, and colourful small fruit that birds will happily carry away…I hope that’s what you have! No apple trees here…
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they’re meant to be very decorative fruits, but not this year! see what happens next year. perhaps I didn’t keep it watered enough.
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We’ve not had a frost yet either. I see we’ve both included fatsia Japonica – great minds and all that. Here’s mine https://greengirlgardener.com/
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we won’t mention the fools seldom differ part!
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I sympathise! Painting is not my favourite job either, but the end result is often well worth it!
The Salvia is really pretty, and the Fatsia flowers are rather interesting especially being bee magnets!
Here is my Six for the week: https://hairbellsandmaples.com/2021/11/13/six-on-saturday-w46-2021-things-are-happening-in-the-garden-at-night/
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it comes in fits and starts with me. when the mood takes me i push through it like a decorating dervish. it doesn’t happen very often, thankfully….
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Hello! It’s been a while, but lovely to get a sense of what’s going on at SOS HQ. I hope you manage to get a potter in the garden in amongst the painting this weekend.
My ruminations are here: https://mysecretgarden61808037.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/sixonsaturday-its-been-a-while/ Some stuff about my garden, some stuff about volunteering, some stuff about mental health. Something for everyone!!
Happy weekend!
Louise
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no chance! the tulips remain stubbornly unplanted…
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Morning all. Lovely to see that salvia and such great colours at this time of year. Still no frosts here in Somerset, but it can’t be long now, surely! Here’s my six this week. https://doingtheplan.com/2021/11/13/six-on-saturday-cat-wisteria-leaves-salvia-more-leaves-and-trees/
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this coming weekend, apparently. we’ll see…
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I must get a Fatsia, the flowers are fantastic sources of pollen just now, and it doesn’t creep everywhere like ivy. My garden seems stuck in perpetual autumn; I feel a bit silly I didn’t realise the grass was a pampas grass til it flowered: http://kasmaty.blogspot.com/2021/11/sixonsaturday-look-round-garden.html
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no creeping, definitely. it does get to be a big shrub/tree eventually.
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Fatsia in the first two sixes I looked at this week had me thinking I was missing a trick but I’d rather have that Salvia. Crab apples don’t go down gracefully do they. At least eaters fall off the tree before they do that. I pruned someone’s Alfred Carriere a few weeks back, as in seriously pruned it. I hope both it and me live to see a bud like that. It doesn’t even have to open. Her’s mine: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-35C
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needs a firm hand, does Alfred. the crabapple problem here is not the state of them, but the headcount. very few, maybe 10. must try harder.
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Lovely photo of the Fatsia flowers. After its first featuring I checked mine and it’s going to flower for the first time! Maybe it’ll make next weeks SoS. Good luck with the decorating.
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it’ll be a race against the frost! supposedly getting cold next weekend.
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I think your pots on the table look rather nice. Similar photos of fresh compost full of promise feature on my six this week. The Fatsia flowers look great and and it’s good to know that the bees like them too.
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2021/11/autumn-trees-and-spring-pots.html
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of course the cats just think, perfect, fresh toilets!
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Do a job well and you will be satisfied, but also a repeat performance is needed. Painting, running and SOS come to mind. You are right to highlight those lovely fatsia flowers. My fatsia also posted this week probably won’t be flowering for a year or two. https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2021/11/six-on-saturday-13-november-2021.html
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oh very true. hall, stairs and landing next, i’m told…
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Fatsia is one of my 6 choices this week. You will see that my Six is a bit “special” and at least it didn’t take me long to write it!😂 https://fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/six-on-saturday-13-11-21/
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My hesper palm is back! (I wrote about it getting stolen last August.) However, I got only one single picture of it, which does not help much on ‘SIX on Sauturday’. That is why mine are so random this week.
From my limited experience with flowering crabapples, I do not get the impression that they produce fruit as abundantly every year. Fruiting crabapples seem to be more reliable, although not as colorful in bloom. It seems that, among our flowering crabapples, ‘Prairie Fire’ has been the most consistent with its fruit production. The others seem to be irregularly prolific from season to season, and when they produce a well, they get shredded by turkeys.
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Great close up of the Fatsia japonica flowers and you’ve reminded me I never did replace my deceased Nelly Moser. I’m rubbish with Clematis https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/six-on-saturday-13-november-2021/
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they’re hit and miss for me. i never really know what causes one to thrive while another remains weedy and useless.
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Greetings from a cold, wet and wintry NSW. You’re a very busy man Prop. Bulb planting, running, painting, gardening. And doing a job, I guess, as well. I feel exhausted reading about it.
Here’s mine: http://janesmudgeegarden.com/a-grey-day-sos-november-13-2021/
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isn’t it meant to be summer there?
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Summer seems to have forgotten us.
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Love the colour of the salvis, certainly vibrant! Lovely to see Nelly Moser still flowering, i think a few plants are confused with our warmer spell. Have fun decorating, I’ll be sweeping up leaves!
My six are here https://www.leadupthegardenpath.com/
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i’m not overly affected by falling leaves, luckily. good luck with yours!
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Morning! Glad you managed to get your bulbs done (or made a dent in the backlog anyway)! I do like the Fatsia flowers – very exotic looking, I think.
Here’s my Six:
https://kindheartsandcorydalis.co.uk/six-on-saturday-13th-november/
Enjoy your decorating…
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just a dent, i’m afraid, still hundreds of tulips to go…
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Good evening from NZ! That is a really pretty salvia. Good luck with the decorating! Here are my 6 – the weather is awful today so a bit of a ‘do what I can’ six this week. https://basia329.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/six-on-saturday-13-11-21/
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i’m sitting here in my decorated office. rather nice, even if i do say so myself. hall & stairs next…
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