Category: Six On Saturday

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations. If you can find the time, check out the posts of other participants by following the links in the comments section of Jim’s post – or share your own six.

Given we’re now in meteorological autumn, my six focuses on faded beauty and the last hurrahs of summer:

One – (Below, left) – A sead head of Allium sphaerocephalon.

Two – (Below, top right) – Sweet peas left to go to seed (or not picked in time)

Three – (Below, bottom right) – A drooping sunflower having given its all.

Four – (Below, left) – The wildflower patch: a few flowers left to the delight of pollinators, but mostly ready to drop seed for next  year.

Five – (Below, top right) – After a very slow start it’s been a bumper year for climbing French beans (the variety is ‘Cobra’).

Six – (Below, bottom right) – Berries starting to form on holly even as we experience a September heatwave.

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations. If you can find the time, check out the posts of other participants by following the links in the comments section of Jim’s post – or share your own six.

The continuing dry spell means no sooner have our six water butts collected a meagre amount of rainwater than they’re empty again. Anyway, enough grumbling, here’s my six:

One – (Below, left) The chocolate coloured flowers of sunflower ‘Rouge’ which have grown taller than the ‘Giant’ variety planted at the same time.

Two – (Below, top right) Japanese anemones have made themselves at home in our garden and pop up all over the place.

Three – (Below, bottom right) This year was my first attempt at creating a wildflower patch. Although it was just from a fairly cheap box of annual seed mixture, I’m pretty pleased with it and the number of pollinators it’s attracting. It’s in an area of the garden that had been used to grow vegetables, then to grow weeds and then covered with ground cover for a year so we didn’t have to look at the weeds.

Four – (Below, left) – This is looking like the year we might actually get some pears from two trees being grown as cordons. The varieties are Doyenné du Comice and Buerre Hardy, although the photo makes them look bigger than they actually are yet! If we do it will make up for the total wipeout of cherries as a result of a combination of hungry pigeons and rampant cherry aphid.

Five – (Below, top right) – One of the new raised beds we put in this year containing carrots, beetroot and sweetcorn.

Six – (Below, bottom right) – The Achillea ‘Cerise Queen’ grown from tiny plugs are finally flowering.