#SixOnSaturday – Six things happening in my garden this week

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

Heatwave + drought + hosepipe ban = unhappy gardener. The garden is really suffering and it crossed my mind to skip this week because there’s so little that’s flourishing. However, gardeners don’t give up that easily do they? There’s a yellow theme to my six this week. (It may be a brown theme next week if we don’t get any rain…)

One – One plant doing really well at the moment is Rudbeckia laciniata ‘Herbstsonne’. I’ll have to think about acquiring more next year although I’d probably go for a different colour. Those teasels are photobombing again.

Two – The coreposis have been struggling a bit but with regular watering and deadheading they’re hanging on in there.

Three – Courgette flowers are always cheery even if the plants have produced few fruits despite lots of watering. They never really managed to get established and have just sulked. Who can blame them?

Four – It tells you something about the change in our weather when even Choisya ternata ‘Sundance’, which was in the garden when we moved here over fifteen years ago, is looking unhappy.

Five – Marsh marigold flowering again in the pond which is now looking more like a sludge-filled puddle.

Six – I did say the theme might change from yellow to brown next week…

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13 thoughts on “#SixOnSaturday – Six things happening in my garden this week”

  1. I laughed at the last photo! It is a struggle at the moment, we just have to hang on in there. Love the rudbeckia, that is such a great plant, coreopsis too. Maybe not next week, but hopeful soon it will will have the rain we wish for.

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    1. Yes, I think we all have fingers crossed for some rain. If anything this summer has perhaps given us an opportunity to plan what we can do if future years are going to follow the same paattern.

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  3. Photo six made me snort with laughter! I too struggled to find much to photo in the garden. Partly becuase of the weather and, I think, partly because I always get excited in spring, so everything I’ve added to the garden flowers in May and June.

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    1. My favourite season has always been spring and now I have an even better reason for that! The only positive I can take from this summer is it’s perhaps given us an opportunity to plan what we can do if future years are going to follow the same paattern. That factor 30 will soon have to be factor 50.

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    1. Yes, especially one that’s been in the garden so long and that the birds love to perch in. It is growing close to a mature crab apple tree but that’s been its companion for ever as well. I’ve only been able to spare a few buckets of grey water for it so far. Don’t know if it will make any difference but at least I’ve tried.

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  6. Well, the yellow theme is working. The plants you’ve shared are wonderful. I hope you’ll have enough precipitation to maintain what you have and bring other plants back to flourishing. Drought is horrible. This year was not the worst I’ve experienced–that was back in 2012. That year, most of the perennials went dormant, but they came back the next year. Doing a rain dance with you…

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  8. I love Rudbeckia….unfortunately mine didn’t survive past its first year and I really think it was due to lack of water. I would love to find some more of them but so far, no luck. I so want for you to not be posting brown next week. 🤞for rain

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    1. I don’t want to be posting brown next week but the way the weather forecast is looking I might be. Ironically last year that rudbecka got badly attacked by slugs whereas this year it’s thrived.

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