Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations.
Please can we have some rain now? It’s lovely to be sitting out in the evening with a glass of wine but exhausting to be constantly lugging watering cans up and down the garden to irrigate precious plants. However, here are six that have managed to survive so far.
One – Ajuga reptans which has found a place all by itself in the gravel under our damson tree.
Two – Gorgeous blue and yellow Dutch iris. They were sold as iris reticulata but, given their height and the fact they have only just come into flower, they clearly are not.
Three – Phlox subulata covered with delicate flowers and liking its sunny position.
Four – Mother Nature demonstrating her skills at garden design by having this dark pink aquilega seed itself next to the red tinged leaves of Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’.
Five – More self-seeders, this time what I think may be centaurea?
Six – White armeria completely happy in the parched earth whilst other plants around it are crying out for water.
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