Tag: gardening

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

The first two bags of second early potatoes have been planted and there have been a few days when it was warm enough to have mid-morning coffee in the garden. We even had pre-dinner drinks on the terrace on Thursday evening. Five o’clock counts as evening doesn’t it?

One – Can you have too many pictures of clumps of common primrose at this time of year? I don’t think so. It was either that or more pictures of pulmonaria.

Two – The marsh marigold is now flowering in the wildlife pond although there’s not much sign of wildlife at the moment – unless you count two magpies having a bath in it.

Three – No idea what variety of tulip this is, it just popped up in one of the borders not really fitting the pink, purple and white colour scheme I’d planned.

Four – Yellow dead nettle flowering under one of the apple trees. The bees that were on it became camera shy.

Five – Flowers starting to form on a blueberry growing in a container. I must remember to give it a feed.

Six – The first blossom appearing on two pear trees growing as cordons – Buerre Hardy and Doyenne du Comice. It would be lovely to believe last year’s bumper crop could be repeated although I suspect that was more down to weather conditions.

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.

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

How cruel to be back to cold, wet and windy weather just as our gardens are rewarding us with spring flowers and blossom. Plans to plant my second early potatoes have been put on hold for the time being.

One – The bergenia (not sure of the variety) has finally started flowering. I no longer need to be envious of my neighbours along the street who have had theirs flowering for at least a month.

Two to Four – A trio of daffodils, varieties unknown because of course I’ve lost all the labels.

Five – Courgette seedlings putting their heads above the soil. I’ve sown two varieties – ‘Firenze’ and ‘Romanesco’ – both of which have done well in previous years.

Six – Viburnum flower with the foliage of spiraea japonica ‘Goldflame’ in the background. The viburnum was pruned back drastically a year ago so it’s a relief to see that it’s come through the winter.

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.