Gardening
A span of month into this hebdomadary Wiley Post , I am still enjoying it , still well finding raw things to post each workweek . It has become a handy elbow room of cataloguing what ’s in the garden , and the act of look for Six things each Saturday is storm me to see more tight at the plants I have . I ’m also get it on reading the contributions from other bloggers . Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything ! A good flower , a utilitarian plant , a success , a nonstarter , a pesky weed , a project , anything at all . Why not get together in ?
Here are my Six for this week .
1 – Buddleia . This is a horticultural secret . I got free of the last buddleia because I rule it boring . Perhaps foolishly , I put back it with a unlike variety of buddleia with a more interesting flower colour – I can only find one flower on the whole bush with the redder tone , I think it has gradually mostly reverted back to steady tedious buddleia of the sort often seen growing half agency up wall , or between railway tracks . A dirty great weed , in other quarrel . I like it not , I think it ’s had its last hurrah . Look forwards to digging that pulpit out ! Not .
2 – Mallow – this is a unpaid worker . I vaguely recall some years back have a mallow industrial plant which often produced seedlings that I was forever labour up and disposing of . I overwintered a group of perennial that I buy as plug , and embed them all out this spring in a frenzy of planting . Among those was this plant . I require it to be a delphinium , but it eventually became absolved it was not . It ’s a mallow . And now I can require it to breed prolifically . I do n’t object wildly to it , and the bees like it . I just do n’t want 50 of them . Vigilance required …
3 – Pulmonaria longifolia ‘ majeste ‘ . The bloom are long gone , and to be honest were not overly noticeable when they were there . The plant looks scruffy after unfolding and benefit from a good trim which boost a fresh blossom of leaf . This particular variety is not your usual dappled green , but instead is quite a striking silvery green . Annoyingly I ca n’t find any of the labels , they are buried in mulch and/or disintegrate , but I conceive it’s‘majeste ’ . I just have three plant , snuggle under a couple of high bush in a very shady topographic point in Border 5 . Because they are quite brilliant , they are holding their own in terms of garden value , although I ’d like them to satiate out a moment . keeper .
I prefer this colour. But there’s only one of them…
4 – Potentilla fruticosa . This short bush idea it ’s own line of work in the corner of Border 1 . It is a little herd out by a carex and a big clump of alchemilla mollis , but it ’s trying intemperately . It is in flower now , and if I recall correctly , carries on florescence for quite a while .
5 – Clematis ‘ voluceau ’ – one of my bargain clematispurchasesfrom too soon this twelvemonth . I am certainly getting my £ 1 worth of colour and growing this yr and so far it seems secure by wilt , to which I have lost a few others this spring . I am hoping this one stick around the length and comes back stronger next year .
6 – Dahlia ‘ Bishops Children ’ . I ’ve got an oversupply of this variety after going to town with cuttings as the parent plant were coming into growing . These plants are all from cuttings taken this class , and looking jolly healthy . They are n’t very tall , but then this is a bedding motley and they are untested too . This variety produces a constant current of chirpy little flowers in a chain of colour from yellowish , orange , red through to a spectacular purple . Frequent deadheading is required to achieve maximum blossom power , but like wot dahlias do , they ’ll flush till the first frost . These are in the front garden , into which I recently engraft over 200 plants , you may read about ithereandhere .
Actually. looks quite pretty close up…
That ’s my Six for this week , what are yours ? You ’re most welcome to join in , just sum up a comment to this post with a link to yours , and mayhap tot a link back to this web enter your post . Enjoy the rest of your weekend !
I ’ll be back next week with another Six .
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