#SixOnSaturday – Six things happening in my garden this week

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations.

Well, we got the rain I was pleading for so all the water butts are replenished and the plants look happier. So are the weeds. But now the rain doesn’t seem to want to stop. She’s never happy, is she? Enough of this grumbling, here are my six:

One – The bee magnet that is Stachys byzantina, commonly known as lamb’s ear. I split up a huge clump of this in the autumn and now I have four huge clumps.

Two – Campanula garganica growing in an area of gravel above our pond. The water never reaches it and it’s in full sun so seems quite happy.

Three – An unlikely pairing, or perhaps I should say ‘pear-ing’. Clematis ‘Etoile Violette’ entwining itself around a cordon pear.

Four – Escallonia ‘Apple Blossom’, planted last year and flowering for the first time.

Five – Coreopsis ‘Golden Joy’ growing amidst Verbena bonariensis and the ubiquitous lamb’s ear.

Six – A self-seeded poppy. It’s more of a red colour in real life.

Do check out the posts of other participants by following the links in the comments section of Jim’s post. If you fancy taking part yourself but don’t know where to start, here’s the participant’s guide.