Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations.
It turns out we chose a good week for our holiday in Cornwall given the arrival of Storm Austen yesterday. I hope those of you in the areas most affected are safe and there’s not been too much damage.
Thursday was fine and dry so I managed to get some daffodil bulbs planted. Still another sixty to go. Weeds seem to be growing at an unbelievable rate with areas I’d cleared before going on holiday covered with them again only a week later.
The first three photographs were taken in the garden of our hotel during my trip to Cornwall. By the way, thanks to everyone who helped to identify the plants in my post last week which I’ve now updated.
One, Two & Three – An orange Canna lily, the foliage of Euphorbia mellifera with drops of rain from a passing shower and the bright red seeds of Iris foetidissima.
Four, Five & Six – The rather battered flowers of Aster × frikartii ‘Mönch’ planted to introduce some autumn colour to a border in the front garden. It and its two siblings were purchased in 9cm pots so still babies. Doing well is Euphorbia × martini ‘Ascot Rainbow’ that I planted last year in one of the large raised beds in the front garden. The same for Veronica ‘Black Beauty’ which has started to produce its spikes of purple flowers. I chose both because they are relatively compact shrubs that I hope I can keep from overpowering the other plants in the raised beds.
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