There will be no gardening this weekend, for the very good reason that I am mum-sitting. The matriarch had a hip replaced on Monday, back home just 2 days later, so I am staying with her for a few days. I’ve borrowed her garden for this weekend’s Six on Saturday.
1 – Front path. Mum’s house, where I grew up, was built in 1906 and like many on the street has a tiled path.
2 – Penstemon. My penstemon (see last week) isn’t the only one hanging on to a few flowers, Mum has a few in the front garden.
3 – Passion flower. This plant is a beast. It has been cut right to the ground on at least one occasion and just bounces right back. It is now about half way up the wall, but will get to roof level eventually before the cycle starts again. Being December, it is neither in fruit or flower, but is looking well.
4 – Eucalyptus, maybe? I’m not sure. It’s a large small tree and still in leaf as you can see. No koalas were seen munching in the canopy, so that might imply non-eucalyptus, but one can’t be certain.
5 – Cyclamen leaf. This plant is in a pot on the patio, and has the largest leaves I’ve ever seen on a cyclamen.
6 – Dieffenbachia ‘Purify’. What a nice houseplant, who could have bought that, what person of impeccable taste and generosity? Me? Oh yes! Birthday present a few weeks back, I think it looks rather nice in the corner of Mum’s dining room.
That’s your lot for this week. Next Saturday is Christmas Day, so in a departure from a 4 or 5 year streak, I’m going to suggest we skip it and make the next one 1st of January. Merry Christmas!
I’ll be back then in the new year with another #SixOnSaturday.
Wish your mum a speedy recovery! Will miss everyone on Christmas day, especially as I was away for the 18th, but see you in 2022…
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Aaand! The tiles are wonderful, the cyclamen makes me green, and dare I ask if the passion flower bears fruit? I do love a good grenadilla!
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The tiled path is beautiful. I am envious of the passion vine. Mine (planted this summer) yellowed and succumbed to either an early death or an early winter slumber – only time will tell. Warm thoughts for your mother and her speedy recovery.
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Better late than never, posted with two hours to spare. Wishing your mum a speedy recovery and I covet her tiled path.
Merry Christmas to everyone, see you in the New Year.
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Have a lovely Christmas, hope your mum makes good recovery from her hip op. Thank you for hosting six on Saturday
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I love the front path too! We have have used replica Victorian tiles in our ‘vestibule’, but it would have been nice to have originals… Hope your Mum’s hip progresses well and I am glad you decided to have a week off – have a great Christmas next Saturday instead! In the meantime here are my six:
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The tiled path is wonderful. I hope you and all of your family are well and will have a Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year.
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Glad to hear your mum is up and about. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, your family and all the SOSers. https://stoneyknob.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/sos-happy-holidays/
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All the best to your Mum. Love the tiled front path. Her passion flower looks like it is forming flowers still. What a year!
Here are my six: https://wp.me/pM8Y1-8uU
Wishing you a happy, healthy Christmas! Thanks for hosting
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What a pretty tile path! That sure looks like eucalyptus, even without the koalas. Does it have the eucalyptus odor?
Hope your mom has a quick recovery. They sure got her home fast!
Have a very Merry Christmas!
https://lisasgardenadventureinoregon.blogspot.com/2021/12/six-on-saturday-december-18-2021.html
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Happy Christmas to you, a good son. Thank you for hosting and I hope some wonderful garden gifts appear under the tree. The Passionvine looks wonderful. Mine went crazy so I cut it back hard and it has not reappeared? https://theshrubqueen.com/2021/12/18/six-on-saturday-december-flowers/
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A change is as good as a rest – though you may not be getting much rest if you are running around making your mum cups of tea (other beverages are available). I hope she makes a speedy recovery. Love her front path, I am always very envious of people living in houses with tiled paths and tiled hallways. As they say in Cornish “Nadelek Lowen ha Bledhen Nowydh Da”
And I shall see you and all the other SoSers in the new year. Enjoy! 🤶🏻 xx
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What a good son you are! Hope you get a run or two in over the holidays. Happy Christmas!
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A very happy Christmas to your family. Hope mum’s feeling up to opening presents. Garden on! Here’s my link
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A very good son….hope someone will be there for you when you need a part replaced! Old gardeners get creaky, I hear.
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Hope your Mum recovers and is able to enjoy her Christmas with you. The passion flower is magnificent, mine died!
Have a wonderful Christmas, my six are here…https://www.leadupthegardenpath.com/
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Wow – super SoS 🙂
Good on ya for looking after your mum and wish her a speedy recovery.
I have “tried” for a SoS myself my effort is here:
https://gardeningmyway.home.blog/2021/12/18/six-on-saturday-18th-december-21/
Have a wonderful Xmas 🙂
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Hope your Mum is feeling better….maybe we will see her on Christmas day? I hope so. I do like her path and that plant is very tasteful, as you say. See you soon. 🤞🤞
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Hope your Mum makes a speedy and full recovery. It’s obvious where your love of gardening comes from. Thanks for hosting SoS this year. I look forward to more of the same in 2022. Best wishes for Xmas and the new year. Stay safe and well. LInda
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That’s a very fine house plant! Good taste indeed! Wishing your Mum a speedy a recovery, and a Merry Christmas to one and all!
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Wishing everyone here a Happy Christmas. I hope your Mum is feeling better soon. That garden path is lovely. I hope that Eucalyptus is kept pollarded. We had to take one out here which had been planted as part of a shrubbery, but 30 odd years later was trying to out compete the Scotts Pine to be the tallest tree in the garden. It is still sprouting from the trunk and if I don’t cut it back is 10ft tall in two years.
The weather outside is so grotty, that for this week’s post, I’ve dug out some photos from a Garden visit I did earlier in the year.
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2021/12/hortus-on-tour-iford-manor.html
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I’ve been trying to reply but it keeps disappearing, user problem I expect!
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I do like a tiled path and that one is lovely. Wishing your mum a speedy recovery from her op so she can get out and enjoy her garden next year.
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I just had to check on Street View whether the tiled path at my childhood home were black and white or terracotta red. The latter, and looking the worse for 120 years wear. Most Eucalyptus here are gunnii. That is a beast of a Passion flower, I will be happy if mine grows as well. Here’s mine: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-37W
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I ought to have added my link, Happy Gardening to all the contributors too from me: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2021/12/six-on-saturday-18-december-2021.html
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Best wishes for a Happy Christmas to you and your family and so pleased that you are able to spend this time with your Mum. Its interesting to see her garden through your eyes, but I do enjoy her posts too. Nice houseplant a nice gift. Many thanks for keeping us all together.
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Ah no you’re thinking of my mother in law, my mum doesn’t have a blog.
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Hope your Mum recovers soon! I too love the tiles! Wishing you and your family a very Happy Christmas! Here is my Six:
https://hairbellsandmaples.com/2021/12/18/six-on-saturday-w51-2021-colour-a-frog-and-a-mantis/
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I saved the best for last again.
Yes, that is a Eucalyptus, like Eucalyptus cinerea or Eucalyptus pulverulenta. I can not identify it. There are just too many possibilities.
Do not let you mother disco dance. It was a bad idea decades ago, and it is a worse idea now. That idea is off the edge.
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So funny!
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Would you say ‘over the top’, or merely ‘off the edge’?
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Just off the edge 😁
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hmm, okay. I suppose that it was rather mundane. I will try harder.
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No, it was good!
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. . . just not over the top.
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I forgot the link! https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/six-on-saturday-18-december-2021/
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That Passion Flower looks extremely well. Wishing your mum a speedy recovery and have a very Merry Christmas.
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Good recovery to your mum and I hope all is well now that the surgery is over. Yes it’s a eucalyptus gunnii and you’ll see mine this week too! -> https://fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/six-on-saturday-18-12-21/
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You are a man of many talents! Hope your mum is disco dancing again soon. Love those tiles! I bet that passion flower is a stunner when in full bloom and the penstemon is lovely. And yes, definitely a eucalyptus. Happy Christmas to you and yours Jon, here are my six https://offtheedgegardening.com/2021/12/18/six-on-saturday-imagination/
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Never met a salvia I did t like…pink is lovely on your blog today.
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Nor me! And thanks 😊
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Hope your mum’s operation goes well. Surprised you didn’t spot any koalas….. 🙂
Anyway, wishing you and the family a wonderful Christmas from us in New Zealand and here are my summer six for this week.
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Thanks, she is up and about, bit sore. Merry Christmas!
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Dahlias! My favorite, and yet I find it most difficult to grow in coastal Georgia. Enjoy the journey to the bloom!
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Just to say how much I enjoy reading your weekly blog … thank you ….I may even join in in the new year! Happy Christmas!
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Glad you enjoy it! Happy Christmas to you too.
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