Category: Six On Saturday

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Progress this week has been affected by Covid-19 in the household and the changeable weather. However, in a quick trip around the garden between the showers, I spotted these:

1. Brightly coloured tulips at the bottom of the garden.
2. Triumph tulips planted in a container last November which, despite having been advertised as a mix of colours, have confined themselves to pastel shades so far.
3. A pulmonaria (if you look carefully) which has made its home amongst the ivy (and assorted weeds) at the bottom of a hawthorn hedge

4. The latest round of seed sowing is three varieties of courgette – ‘Lemona’ (yellow), ‘Romanesco Latino’ (ribbed) and ‘Modena’ (dark green)
5. The ‘Chocolate Cherry’ tomato plants are making progress (although the two runty ones are hidden at the back!)
6. An attractive combination of heather and spring bulbs in a border in the grounds of Eastwell Manor near Ashford in Kent

Enjoy your garden or outside space this week.

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme hosted by The Propagator. If you’d like to join in you can find more details here.

Here are six highlights from my gardening week.

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1) [Right] Continuing previous weeks’ theme of neglected fruit trees and bushes, there are buds emerging on two pear trees trained as cordons at the bottom of the garden. The varieties are Doyenne du Comice and Beurre Hardy although I don’t think they fruited last year.  They are rather choked by weeds and a rampaging sage (of which more anon) but I’m hoping some TLC might revive them.

2) [Left] Talking of things emerging, there are the first signs that a hosta I was given last year has survived the winter. I can’t remember the variety as I have the annoying habit of discarding plant labels on the basis that I will easily recall what it was.  And I never do

3) [Right] It always surprises me how plants can flourish in seemingly inhospitable places. This grape hyacinth is managing to grow in the crack between two paving slabs.

4) [Below, left] Some early tulips are adding a glorious bit of colour to the garden.

5) [Bottom left] The aforementioned rampaging sage although it does  give off the most lovely scent when you brush past it.

6) [Below, right] No, definitely not my greenhouse at the moment – it’s currently empty – but a reminder to myself of what it looked like a few years ago. It’s not been used since for a variety of reasons, including just too many other things taking priority and what I can only describe as a ‘gardening slump’. My aim is to get it back into operation this year.

Enjoy your garden or outside space this week.