Last weekend I mainly battled bindweed and got the front garden under a semblance of control. This weekend (after a short 25 mile jog) I shall be battling bindweed (it’s a forever war) and watering pots and containers as it has been such a dry spring so far. I might also topple off the seed-sowing wagon and sow some cosmos. To distract you from my weakness of will, it’s time for Six on Saturday. Six things, in the garden, on a Saturday. Could be anything, you decide!
Here are my Six for this week.
1 – More roses. Last week I was struck by a brainwave. I was looking at the three big wooden planters on my patio, thinking what can I put in there after the bulbs are done. I know, a rose! There’s not enough height on the patio side for a climber, but I figure I can train a shrub rose as a short climber and cover the 3′ of trellis with fragrant blooms. I need to wait for the bulb foliage to die back, so for now I’ve plonked them in as they came, tied up, in a bucket of garden compost.
They are all David Austin roses: ‘Dame Judy Dench’, ‘Harlow Carr’ and ‘Gabriel Oak’. If I’m feeling adventurous I might stuff a patio clematis in with each one for good measure.
2 – Tulip ‘Hermitage’. A fave from the last couple of years, I was unable to resist coming back for more. Allegedly they are quite perennial. I meant to plant last year’s in the ground after they flowered, never got around to it, and I expect the same will happen again.
3 – Daffodil ‘Winston Churchill’. A multi-stemmed double, these are quite frou frou, not what you might expect from something named after a wartime PM. They are fragrant too, although I forgot to sniff test them.
4 – Tulip ‘Pretty Princess’. My daughter had an annoying audio book of the same name, which had an even more annoyingly catchy theme tune which I can still sing along to. It hasn’t put me off buying these tulips, and not for the first time either.
5 – Narcissi ‘Pheasant’s Eye’. A nice, neat late daff.
6 – Begonia [Bergenia! It’s a bergenia….], name lost to recorded history. This begonia is still gamely trying to grow despite being trampled on every year during the pruning and training of the rose which grows behind it. I don’t think it has ever flowered, so this is a turn up for the books.
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 be splendid. For more details you can read the brief participant’s guide.
Enjoy your garden!
I’ll be back next weekend for another #SixOnSaturday.
I do love the idea of planting the David Austin roses in the pots and look forward to the photos in months to come. The tulips are stunning, and Narcissi ‘Pheasant’s Eye’ is truly spectacular.
It has been awhile since I participated, but here are my six: https://barefootlilylady.com/2022/05/03/the-merry-month-of-may/
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Tulips! I adore them, and so do the deer, so I have to buy them as cut flowers! The space inside the garden fence is limited, and tulips need room! Yours are glorious! Stop by my blog if you will. Tulip season in Savannah is past.
http://Jayneingeorgia.com
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Love the colour of the Hermitage tulips. Our tulips are over now really – we get them a week or two earlier here. I left Old Pheasant’s Eye in the ground last year and they have flowered again, but the flowers are small and I don’t think I’ll leave them this year. I do like them though.
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I offer my sympathies on the bindweed. I love your tulips. My six are here: https://dameeleanorhull.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-april-retrospective/
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Bit late today, but just made it. I love the Bergenia flowers. I have chosen two lots of tulips, one a pot by the front door, and a friend’s tulips with an unusual colour combination. The garden is desperate for rain. Here are my six: https://kasmaty.blogspot.com/2022/04/sixonsaturday-community-gardening.html
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Oh how exciting to be able to add more roses! Your tulips are gorgeous but I don’t envy you the earworm…! Thanks for hosting. My six are here:
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The sharp colors of ‘Pheasant’s Eye’ are great. Good luck with the bindweed. Here is my offering this Saturday: https://aftereden.blog/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-30-april-2022/
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Ha! I think I was number 30 last week, too! I must get my posts done quicker. I *love* the Pretty Princess tulips. In fact, they are also in my ‘six’ this week, although mine look a bit different than yours. The ‘Pheasant’s eye’ is one of my favorites. I must get some more for a container next year. The ones I had in the ground have all faded. Good luck with the bind weed. Dreadful stuff. How’d the 25 mile jog go? 🙂
Here’s my six: https://mominthegarden.com/2022/04/30/another-page-is-turned-goodbye-april/
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It went well, thank you! Just a tune-up for a 50 mile race in a few weeks….
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What pretty narcissi, and very aptly named. Here’s my six for this week https://greengirlgardener.com/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-30th-april/
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Thanks for sharing, those tulips are really fabulous. And I do love a David Austin rose. My personal battle is ground elder… but the bindweed comes in a close second. Good luck in beating it! Here’s my SoS. Wishing everyone a good weekend’s gardening. https://notesfromtheundergardener.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-30th-april-2022/
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Tulips look wonderful, love the colors. I would use those over and over if I could hope to grow tulips here! Good luck with the bindweed, I am actually too far south for that. http://theshrubqueen.com/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-taste-of-summer/
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Lovely tulips. The color variation in the petals is gorgeous and worth tolerating the name and its painful associations. I’m going to have to get my hands on some pheasant’s eye – they are so striking.
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Here are mine: https://roguegarden.wordpress.com
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Battling bindweed and ground elder are my perpetual occupations and the earth is so dry at the moment it’s just about impossible to get it out without breaking the roots. We need rain!
My post https://whatcathyreadnext.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/sixonsaturday-my-gardening-week-30th-april-cavershamjj/
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Happy Saturday all! Here are my pictures – Spring starts slowly where I am, but there are promising signs! https://wisconsingarden.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-april-30-2022/
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Oh, those tulips are divine. I am very partial to orange ones so Hermitage is on the list for 2023, and I rather like those pink streaky ones too, though ‘Pretty Princess’ is a rather twee name. What sort of height are these? I have been quite shocked at how short a lot of tulips are these days, though the weather may well affect them. I am still waiting for my ‘Pheasant’s Eye’ / Poeticus to show signs of flowering.
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Not terribly high actually, 8 inches maybe.
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Now …about tulips….Do I leave them in the ground or take them up?
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Up to you, they seem to get smaller each year if you don’t replant fresh bulbs, though in my case, it may be due to laissez faire gardening – perhaps they want more fertilizer/compost than I give them… In my yard, they get moved by some critter, squirrels maybe? so then the come up in the lawn somewhere and are very small after competing with turf.
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They are generally unreliable returners. If you plant a dozen, after a year or two there might be half that number. I treat them as annuals, grow in tubs I can just clear away when they’re done.
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.Thank you…I think I would rather have plants that come back.
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It is another beautiful weekend here in Beautiful Alabama. The trees are full of leaves, the roses are madly blooming, the birds are playful and the sound of mowers and blowers are everywhere.
After a very busy week, I plan a rest from gardening this weekend.
Here is my effort. Thank you propagator.
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A lovely selection of roses, looking forward to seeing photos when in flower. The majority of my tulips and narcissi are over and I’ve entered that frustrating time waiting for them to die down so I can reuse the containers. This is my SoS this week showing off colour in the garden – https://fortheloveofagarden.uk/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-30-april-2022/
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Hello everyone!
There is certainly no such thing as a 25 mile short jog. This week I have a selection of spring flowers, with a fake bee and white bluebells. I’m chuffed to report that a short film I made about planting a community orchard will be shown at a local film festival, and we’ve harvested our first salad of the spring. https://doingtheplan.com/2022/04/30/to-bee-or-not-to-bee-well-actually-its-a-bombyliidae/
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I would have guessed bergenia as well, and what a gorgeous colour it is! We’ve caught up to you, somewhat, as my tulips and daffs are also looking splendid this week (even though it’s quite comical how, after a frosty night they’ll be bent over, perking up again as the sun warms them up). Have a great weekend!
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Hi. Good on the Begonia coming through and flowering for first time. I have the Rose Dame Judi Dench, tending to have sprawling habit hoping this year it will be growing stronger and looks so far to be doing so!
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Gorgeous tulips and daffodils! I will add Hermitage and Winston Churchill to my list for this autumn. Have a lovely bank holiday weekend!
Here are my six:
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No tulips from me I’m afraid, not organised enough to plant them in pots! Maybe I will be tempted in the autumn. My six are here…..https://www.leadupthegardenpath.com/
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Hermitage is winning this week. But the Pheasant’s Eye is also a favourite of mine. Enjoy the run. Here’s my link https://n20gardener.com/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-green-is-a-good-feeling/ good feelings yes, but also tulip mosaic virus confirmed!
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I shall try planting ‘Hermitage’ out when they are over – I’d love them to come back again. I think I grew them after you showed them last year. The bindweed (and bramble) battle has started here as well.
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Good morning…….and a lovely one it is too. How are your tulips doing in the pots? Those in your post look nice but I assume they aren’t the ones I saw a couple of weeks ago. Hope the “jog” went well.
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Some are long gone now but the later varieties are flowering now
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Morning! It’s that time of year, isn’t it, where there’s just too much to do and too little time to do it all in (particularly if one will spend half the week living away for work / punctuate one’s weekends with 25 mile ‘jogs’…).
I’ve clambered on the tulip bandwagon for my six this weekend. Sorry not sorry.
Have a good one! Louise
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Begonia, Bergenia, it’s a hell of a colour, they’ve never thrived here. Tulip ‘Hermitage’ is a cracker too, I’d note the name but I’d only lose the note. Here are mine: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-3gE
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Bergenia!!!!
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I resisted the temptation to fill my post with tulips but it was difficult! Such a wonderful time of year in the garden. Here are my six https://davidsgardendiary.com/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-56/
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Both of those tulips are gorgeous and I always love the Pheasant’s Eye. Here are my autumnal six https://thistlesandkiwis.org/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-30-04-22/
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Your roses will be splendid when you get them planted. Here’s my six https://wp.me/p2Eu3u-i2S
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Great six and that sounds like a grand selection of roses. I have Harlow Carr – a very thorny rose indeed but rather lovely. Let us know if you do topple off the seed sowing wagon – not that any bets were placed or anything… https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-30-april-2022/
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Except for the last and most important of my six. I just got a bunch of propagation for this week. I suppose I should be showing off flowers at this time of year.
That is an interesting begonia. The color is so rich, like that of bougainvillea. It does not look familiar at all. I would not have guessed it to be a Begonia. ‘Hermitage’ tulip is rich also. That is a lot of color.
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The tulip ‘Hermitage’ is also my favourite in your Six this week; its colour is really powerful. I smiled while reading “a short jog of 25 Miles”… Here is my link for this week: https://fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/six-on-saturday-30-04-22 /
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Yes, short! I have another 50 mile (80km) race I’m a few weeks.
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