I’ll have to be super brief, having forgotten to pop out earlier and now I’m out of time, I’m heading off to Wales shortly for some hill training in the Brecon Beacons.
1. Rose ‘Gertrude Jekyll’.
2. Hydrangea
3. Sanguisorba
4. Casualty of war. Remember those lupins I bought a few weeks back? Entirely destroyed. Serves me right…
5. Geranium. No variety, think I grew it from seed.
6. Rose ‘The Pilgrim’
Gotta dash!
I’ll be back next weekend for another #SixOnSaturday.
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You do get about a bit! Here are my six https://davidsgardendiary.com/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-62/
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Oh, the poor lupine! The roses are gorgeous! Here are my six this week: https://cosmosandcleome.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/a-wind-delayed-six-on-saturday/
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Lovely flowers, shame about the lupins.
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Oops- casualties indeed! Love the sanguisorba, which are slow to get going here, and am really chuffed to have bought 3 varieties from an open garden I visited today (and the seller had others, so I was quite restrained!!). Gertrude Jekyll is an iconic rose, isn’t she? Better weather for hill training now, methinks! My six are at https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-phew/
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Sanguisorba is delightful. What happened to the lupine? Here are mine: https://roguegarden.wordpress.com
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Slugs. Get em every time, I should know better.
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So kind of you to share a failure along with your many successes. We all have plants disappoint from time to time. Love your roses and Hydrangea! Lovely color this week. Here are mine- mostly green and white: https://woodlandgnome.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-patience-its-summer/ Happy Summer Solstice!
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Sorry for your lupins! I bought icelandic poppies last week that suffered the same fate! Love the sanguisorba. Enjoy Brecon Beacons!
My six are here: https://wp.me/pM8Y1-8F4
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Your flowers are lovely, but oh, that poor lupin. It must’ve hurt to see that.
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Enjoy your hill training. I’m enjoying your roses. https://theshrubqueen.com/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-quandaries/
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Surry to hear about the lupine! At least you have your roses! The geranium is delicate and lovely as well. Here are my six: https://wisconsingarden.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-6-18-22/
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That’s exactly how my life is, too, although not with running. I hope you enjoyed your hills!
Here’s my six:
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It is hot here in the very sunny Southeast USA this week. Highs in the upper 30’s C. Gardening is difficult in that weather so maintenance tasks are the ones I am doing.
Happy gardening!!
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lovely flowers – sorry about the lupins. I can’t grow them either thanks to the slimy guys. However other plants attract bees and butterflies – all in their glory in my front garden today https://reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/why-flowers-are-better-than-car-parks/
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I totally agree that we should avoid paving over everything. I have seen some places where they put in two narrow strips of concrete to drive on with grass or low growing plants underneath in older homes. I have also seen permeable pavers, though I do not know how well they would do in places where it freezes…https://www.agriculturesolutions.com/agtec-heavy-duty-driveway-and-parking-grid-pavers?gclid=CjwKCAjw77WVBhBuEiwAJ-YoJM7sLOm9ocpHwsVXfnb3ACK_NslJ-7asZZI9PnZIy_MjAfjgh4aNYhoC614QAvD_BwE
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Good luck with the running. Here’s my entry for SOS today – https://thegarrett.garden/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-june-18/
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Goodness, running and keeping a garden is life style juggling! Your roses are gorgeous, sad about the lupins. Here are my Six – http://fortheloveofagarden.uk/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-18-june-2022/
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One has to wonder how long you are going to be able to continue hosting this popular meme – your running obsession has definitely overtaken the love of propagating. I hope that you are not experiencing the weather we are in Cornwall today – rain and fog! The Brecon Beacons can be quite unforgiving!
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Yup, same weather. Probably better than yesterday’s heat tbh.
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Going to be soggy in the Beacons today, hope it goes well! Lovely pics as always, Mr P. Here’s my 6. Really enjoying everyone’s posts today. Wishing everyone a happy weekend 🙂 https://notesfromtheundergardener.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-18th-june-2022/
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Yes it was rather wet. Character building!
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Ah, the joy of that time of year when the stuff that’s doing well looks amazing and the stuff that isn’t really doesn’t 🤣
Glad to hear you’re doing the Brecon Beacons today and not yesterday…
Back at Waddesdon for my six today: https://mysecretgarden61808037.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/sixonsaturday-endurance-watering/
Louise
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Aphids have also been descending en masse to enjoy my lupins…. They’re avoiding the onions, though, so far at least!
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Enjoy the Brecon Beacons, sounds wonderful. Glad I didn’t try Lupins now. Here are mine:
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A good flower pic speaks for itself, which works for five out of six. The less said about the other the better. Here are mine: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-3lV
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Your lupin joins a whole trolley of expensive lupins that just couldn’t cope with the conditions and lack of water at my local supermarket. Blackfly had mine last year so it’s never again for me. But all the other stuff looks great. Sounds like Brecon Beacons is the coolest place to be this weekend! Here’s my link: https://wp.me/p97pee-14B I’m asking how people keep their greenhouses cool!
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Good morning. That poor lupin, I didn’t bother feeding the S&S this year with the usual Brussels and broccoli seedlings. Hope the run goes well, you will be quite happy that the weather is cooler today.
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Lovely roses! Enjoy your running! Here are my winter six https://thistlesandkiwis.org/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-18-06-22/
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Your camellias are great! I love the glossy leaves and abundant flowers. There were many in Seattle – don’t see them in Wisconsin. Maybe they just don’t do winter.
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Hey, I got a few roses also! Wow, that lupine is like . . . awful.
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A Speedy Gonzales Six on Saturday. That Hydrangea is rather wow and way ahead of mine https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-18-june-2022/
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I’m dashing too – to get some of those 6 bulk bags of gravel spread before the rain comes in!
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2022/06/and-just-like-that-roses-have-bloomed.html
I’ll be back later for a good look through.
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Enjoy the Brecons, well at the start before you get all tired. The Pilgrim is my favourite rose this week from your selection, Here are my six: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2022/06/six-on-saturday-18-june-2022.html
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Hope it’s cooler in the Brecon Beacons for you than it has been here. Here are my six https://wp.me/p2Eu3u-ieY
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I have recently planted Sanguisorba for the first time, it’s not something that’s often seen here. They’re dying down now because of winter, but I’m hoping for a good show later in the year. Happy running!
Here are mine: http://janesmudgeegarden.com/winter-begins-sos-june-18-2022/
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Wow, blink and you’d miss it! Sorry about your lupin loss. The rest are lovely. Hope you have a good run in the Brecon’s a bit murky out there today. Here are mine https://offtheedgegardening.com/2022/06/17/six-on-saturday-spoilt-for-choice/
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That’s brief 😂! here is mine https://fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/six-on-saturday-18-06-22/ and love the Pilgrim pic and fluffy sanguisorba
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That was quick, with all your running I wouldn’t have thought you needed any training!
We have lots of the same plants, but not the lupins, for the reason you have shown!
My six are here……https://www.leadupthegardenpath.com/
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Gosh! He’s like the wind, isn’t he? I love sanguisorba. I’ve got one or two in the big garden. Here’s mine https://pruebatten.com/2022/06/18/sos-18622/
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I’m enjoying your photos. Thanks
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