SixOnSaturday

Last weekend was actually our 5th anniversary as the Six On Saturday massive . Remiss of me not to bring up it last week , but still , well-chosen anniversary ! After give way to anything garden touch last weekend , apart from corrupt too many plants , this weekend I should have sentence to get some jobs done . Among those will be battling the bindweed , and grass in universal really , in the front garden where it is all getting a bit rampant . That ’s in spite of effort over the last month or so to get it under control . I also need to found the new plants . I ’m activated to do that . Well , really I ’m excited to see them planted , I ’d be quite happy for someone else to plant them . I mean I will cut into up nearly everything in the Hibiscus border , it ’s unsatisfactory , so some of the newfangled plant will go in there . I may also put some of the newbies in the Wisteria perimeter . This sounds quite critical but in reality what will probably bechance is I ’ll flap over where to put the random collection of raw plant and give it up as a tough business . I guess you ’ll find out next weekend how successful I was .

Time for Six on Saturday then . Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be a plant , a flower , a beastie , a line of work to do , a success , a failure , anything at all . Join in !

Here are my Six for this week .

1 – Cornus kousa ‘ Miss Satomi ’ . This is one of my more late small - tree purchase . I suppose this its 3rd summertime in the ground . It was not a well plant when it go far , I complained and got a 50 % repayment , so take a chance on it . It did n’t count great the first year , still slightly peaky last year , and now calculate like it has recovered some poise . It is “ flower ” at the mo , the cause I bought it in the first blank space . It has quite a covering of the pretty bracts this year , but I consider it will be even better in the future .

2 – Hosta ‘ June ’ . barely munched at all , strangely . The other hostas in the same container are shredded and not looking at all attractive .

3 – Abutilon ‘ Suntense ’ . I ’m a moment smug about this one . I farm it from come a few years back . It hold up some initial neglect in a too - modest pot , but I finally imbed against the fencing in the front garden . It is now a good 6′ marvelous and has quite a spread . My sojourn to the garden centre last weekend was really to buy a tree stake as it was leaning well to one side . The flowers are not like a distinctive abutilon , more like a mallow . In fact , if I recall correctly , it is also known as Indian Mallow . It will seek to grow to 10 or even 12′. I will seek to keep it to it ’s current 6′ , hopefully it will circulate a second more so I can train it against say fencing .

4 – Peony , red . Given to me by Grannysgarden two or three years ago , this has got swamped by the surrounding emergence , but is now holding its own sufficiently well to flower in full quite a little . It is so red my photographic camera ca n’t cope with it . A very deep scarlet , it seems more pink here in the photo .

5 – Geranium ‘ Johnson Blue ’ . I think I buy this last year from Cranesbill Nursery . I ’ve bought a few unlike plants from them every year for the last 2 or 3 age , increase my livestock of geraniums , good garden do - ers . This one is in the front garden , so far unmolested by bindweed , long may that continue , although it wo n’t if I do n’t get my fingerbreadth out this weekend .

6 – Foxglove . Just your introductory , I mean .

Have a super weekend in the garden .

I ’ll be back next prison term with another # SixOnSaturday .

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