Back in Blighty, the garden is dry as a bone, suffering in drought conditions, a little like my gardening enthusiasm. I mainly can’t be bothered with it at the moment. Hopefully you are all feeling less glum about the whole thing!
Here are a rather half-hearted Six.
1 – Mahonia, new growth. Hopefully this will bulk out and fill the space allotted to it. It certainly seems to be getting off to a good start.
2 – Lobelia tupa. Odd flowers, and what is normally quite a good structure has been ruined by lack of water, it has collapsed under its own weight. I’ll cut it back after flowering. It’ll go again next year, it’s a pretty robust plant now.
3 – Persicaria, not fat domino. Offspring of offspring, these are a less good colour than fatty himself. Still any colour welcome at the moment.
4 – Purple loosestrife. I have two of these, one is very dry and hardly flowering, but this one gets the run off from the watering the patio pots get and is much happier.
5 – Platycodon, balloon flower.
6 – Malus ‘Rudolph’, fruiting better this year.
That’s your lot, I’ll be back next weekend for another #SixOnSaturday.
The Propagator 
Hi, I vaguely remember some time ago you mentioned about getting dried hops from a local brewer. How did you get on, was it any good for your garden and can you remind me of the details?
P.s. I’m local to you.
Carolyn
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Not dried hops, spent hops. I went to Lodden Brewery in Dundsden. They usually have a big builders bag of it next to the shop. Pop your head round and ask if you can take some. In my experience they’re very happy for folks to take as much as you like. I used it in my compost heap, works like grass. Needs some “browns” to go with it. It does pong a bit of the brewing process.
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It’s THAT time of year, we all run out of steam but it always comes back. I have focused on the positives in my six. They are always there if you look for them! https://davidsgardendiary.com/2022/08/06/six-on-saturday-66/
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I’m a little late linking in to your post this week! Apologies for that. Hopefully the heat will abate and it will start raining again for everyone soon. Your purple loosestrife is certainly putting on a spectacular show!
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I feel for you all. It’s similar to what I feel (normally) from early January to at least Easter here in Tasmania.
But the last two years have been terribly wet and fraught with wild wind storms, thanks to Climate Change and the active presence of La Nina and the Indian Ocean Dipole which I have grown to hate.
We live in mud, wonder what plants haven’t rotted and that’s why I have very few offerings these days. Unless you want pics of muddy lawns and flooded drains.
I hope the rains come soon for you though.
Nothing from me this week.
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I have compromised for any lack of enthusiasm for ‘proper’ gardening, but it has left holes:
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I haven’t been away since early June, so I have watered some things. Biggest triumph this week is unwatered sweetcorn which is huge and very tasty. I think we just have to get through this drought somehow, here are my six: http://kasmaty.blogspot.com/2022/08/sixonsaturday-from-scorched-garden.html
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Been hot here too, but not so terribly dry. I am enjoying the flowers, though the Japanese beetles are making holes in the leaves of my beans. Nothing to do but keep up the pressure. Here are my six: https://wisconsingarden.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/8-6-22-six-on-saturday/
Enjoy your weekends!
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I was actually relieved to read that your pull to the garden was reducing, I thought I was alone. Here are my six: https://noellemace.blogspot.com/2022/08/six-on-saturday-6-august-2022.html
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The heat and drought takes its toll on the garden and the gardener.
Here is my entry for the week from the sunny Southeast USA. Spent a few days in Mentone, Alabama which is at the southern tip of the Appalachians where it is a little cooler.
https://mensgardenvestavia.wordpress.com/2022/08/05/summer-bloom-5-aug-2022/
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The dog days of summer, my Mother used to say. I don’t know what it actually means but I understand how she was feeling as a gardener when she said it was upon us. Similar to your expression! This too will pass and your garden won’t even notice your dismay…it keeps on going best as it can.
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I’ve lost my gardening mojo too, but that’s due more to the amount of work it is taking to maintain now that it has matured and I am looking at ways to revamp it in the autumn. I imagine your running schedule and events are taking up most of your time so the garden is having to manage itself. No bad thing, I’m focusing on the visitors to the garden this week:
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I can only add a comment about your six from here –
Beautiful pictures. We seem to have has the bees this year but not the butterflies (again). ‘Rozanne’ in a pot has got me thinking……
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I might try it in a container on the patio, It can spill as much as it likes there. I don’t know why you can’t comment on the blog, I haven’t made any changes in years.
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Cathy was having problems too and thinks she may have solved it – if you use Firefox then please read her comment on my post.
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Hope you had a good holiday and your garden wasn’t too frazzled by the time you got back. Doing what I can to keep things going but the garden just doesn’t look the same.
my six are here…..https://www.leadupthegardenpath.com/
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I won’t have time to read them all but I was able to prepare a little Six before leaving. Here it is: https://fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/six-on-saturday-06-08-22/
Heat and dry here too but less that in France /UK. Welcome back to your garden!
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I’ll join everyone feeling a bit depleted by the dry conditions. Rain clouds tend to float by just north of us..an enticing but frustrating sight. Love the Lobelia – there was a patch growing in some wetlands not far from me last year…may take a run by this morning to see how its managing…
https://wp.me/p50zvt-2DC
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Yes, it is hard to enjoy our gardens when they are shrivelling up! Interesting to see what is able to do well in the dry though. Sadly, I seem to have lost all my lobelia tupa.
Here are my six: https://wp.me/pM8Y1-8HV
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I’ve given up watering everything, it cannot be done! Just trying to keep new purchases going. Perhaps our mojos will revive in September. Here’s my link to those that are surviving https://n20gardener.com/2022/08/06/six-on-saturday-drying-times/
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I don’t think anyone can be bothered right now. By the time you’ve watered everything doing additional jobs like weeding isn’t appealing and it’s been too dry for much planting.
This week’s six from a local garden visit. Lots of tropical plants and a few purchases. https://30daysofwildparenting.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/six-on-saturday-6-8-22-wassand-hall/
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Oh dear, nothing beats a drought for killing the pleasure of gardening. It won’t last forever. Here are mine: https://wp.me/p6bCCa-3qu
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When the soil is rock hard and the grass is brown, the garden is not very inviting. Is it too hot to run as well? Anyway, have q good weekend.
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I hope you had a good holiday. I’m feeling the same about gardening. It’s just dispiriting watching it all dry up, and then feeling guilty about using water to try to keep things alive. Here are a few plants that seem to be doing well despite everything.
https://www.hortusbaileyana.co.uk/2022/08/still-going-strong.html
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Lobelia tupa is a real favourite of mine. We’ll (nearly) all be out doing a collective rain dance.
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Ah, that’s a pity about the gardening rut, but understandable given the weather!
Here’s my link:
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Sorry about the gloom. I always enjoy your photos.
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Mine is sort of about recycling, . . . a bit too excessively.
Purple loosestrife sure is, well, . . . purple. It is a nice purple though. I would not mind purple so much if it looked like that. Purple can be a difficult color.
Is that Mahonia lomariifolia? I likely asked that earlier, but do not remember.
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I often find that in August my gardening enthusiasm dips too, the plants start flagging, the freshness of early summer has gone, and this year the drought is not helping. Hope you had a lovely holiday in France and that things pick up.
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I’m feeling a bit unenthusiastic about the garden at the moment too – it’s looking very sorry for itself. The fruit of Malus ‘Rudolph’ are a cheering sight though, as is the Loosestrife https://onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/six-on-saturday-6-august-2022/
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My six for this week. Of course…loving the mahonia!
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Ah, hope you get your gardening mojo back. Maybe be is is post holiday blues? Hope you enjoyed your time away? Here’s my six https://wp.me/p2Eu3u-ip9
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