For various reasons my Six On Saturday offerings are a little thin on the ground right now but nevertheless it’s a weekend job I enjoy, if only to document the garden as it is right now. Thanks to our blogging host Jim who can be found here. If you fancy joining in with us you can check out the particpants’ guide too.
I love this geum – it had been consigned to a side border because I thought it was a pot of Fox and Cubs (I don’t know the real name of that plant but I love them – they seem to grow in every random pot I leave around my garden). But here it is, very definitely a geum, and looking fabulous. It’s a hard colour to photograph well. I’ve taken three or four shots this week but it was overcast first thing this morning and this is the best shot I’ve taken all week.
Yet another stage of hellebore. I love this plant, it’s constantly evolving throughout the year and I find every stage fascinating. It’s in its alien era right now and I fully expect it to explode and a small creature to crawl out.
The rhododendron finally opened. The buds were looking very, very dead and the leaves have taken a battering from something but since I moved it out of full sun to the shade of the cherry blossom tree it seems much happier and this week we’ve gone from sneaky little hints of petals to this. Glorious.
Another pot that had been consigned to the edge of the garden because I thought it was empty but it appears to have dahlias and gladioli growing in it. It will have be moved back into the keep zone. I had a couple of dahlia/gladioli pots like this and I can’t remember which varieties are in this pot.
This is the only fuchsia that has survived this year. I usually have five or six but none of them have come back apart from this one. The label says it’s called Snowcap. I think it’s a big double pink and white flower. It’s looking very small for this time of year but hopefully it will put on a growth spurt soon.
My last item is a bit of a cheat. It’s two photos, of two different plants, but it’s in an effort to show how wet it has been up here this week. Welcome rain I must say and I love how the raindrops look on the leaves (fatsia and hydrangea). It’s dry again this morning but the clouds are giving off rain in the afternoon vibes right now.
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Oh yes, pots that you thought were empty not being empty all all, I know that feeling! Your rhody is beautiful.
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Thank you – we bought it last year right at the end of its flowering phase so this is the first time I’ve seen it go from buds to flowers. I was shocked how quickly that happened – it’s had ratty looking buds for months and all of a sudden we get this glorious display.
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I put up with Fox and Cubs for a couple of years, but it got thuggish, sending out rootings everywhere, but it’s hard to remove.
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It’s only in pots here – so I have it under control 😉
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I had to look up fox and cubs and found that it has some less sweet common names, like Devil’s Paintbrush and Grim the collier (what? Grim? Collier? I do not get that one and much prefer Fox and cubs, which Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge says is Pilosella aurantiaca. The Geum is lovely and the hellebore – I have never seen/noticed then in the alien state. Interesting! We could use some rain here. The rain for yesterday never materialized so I must water today.
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Yes fox and cubs is the nicest of its names. My hellebores do the alien thing every year – maybe it’s the variety rather than all of them? I’m not sure.
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Fox and cubs is another plant that the botanists have reclassified, in this case, from hieracium. Since they can now use DNA sequencing, everything seems to be changing. Much as I like the flower colour, my front garden became infested with it, and it took me two years to eradicate it. So please be careful.
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I haven’t seen it in the lawn at all and the rest of the garden is gravel and pots. I love the colour too – so bright and cheerful.
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Your pic of the hellebore makes me want to rush out and look more closely at mine. Fascinating! So glad you had rain!
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Well, it certainly looks like you have quite a show of beauties currently. Thanks for sharing! Glads and Dahlias–what a great combination. And that Geum…wow!
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Thanks Beth – the glads and dahlias look amazing when they’re both in bloom.
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