Once more unto the Six on Saturday, the global meme hosted by superhero The Propagator. Following last week’s “Nearly’s” I am sorry to report that out of the six potential stars we only have one performer, and that is rather a half-hearted attempt.
So we will start with something that is at least trying, a honeysuckle, holding its flower head high above the griselinia hedge below. No idea where it starts, or indeed where it ends, but I claim it as our own.
Next we have Pelargonium ‘Pink Capricorn’ and friend. I featured this little beauty a couple of years ago in Pastel Power. This means it has survived the onslaught of two wet and windy North Devon winters. Fingers crossed for the next one! And of course for the for the spider.
Here we have the sole member of last week’s bud group that could be bothered to flower in time for today. Salvia corrugata is making a feeble effort to bloom. Don’t you realise that people are waiting!?
Having just tallied them up for the first time, I can report that we have five Japanese maples in pots. They are various unnamed Acer palmatum cultivars, bought as tiny sticks many years ago. Several were from Woolworths, ah the wonder of woolies, we miss you.
Another anonymous osteospermum, I love this copper colour, and like its golden counterpart included a couple of weeks ago, it has enjoyed a summer snuggled on a sunny step outside the kitchen door.
Lastly we have another ginger lily, unfortunately not the one I was hoping for. Hedychium greenii has not moved one iota. Still this first reserve hedychium has a stunning flower, a worthy understudy. It was gift from Steve and Dawn at Devon Subtropical Garden. To my great shame I have lost the label and don’t know which ginger it is. I thought it was Devon Cream, but looking at it now I don’t think so. Rubbish gardener. Steve and Dawn’s garden is open for the National Garden Scheme tomorrow, if you are in the area I highly recommend a visit.
That’s the lot, thanks Mr P! I have a note from my mum for next week, so hopefully in a fortnight, like Arnie, I’ll be back.
Off The Edge Gardening 
A really nice blog to read and fabulous pictures –
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Thank you, much appreciated. 🙂
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Another great six. I love acers. My own died this year, so it is nice to be able to enjoy yours vicariously. It was in a pot and I was travelling during what must have been a dry spell, but I was surprised and disappointed.
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Oh dear, well you are welcome to share ours, we have plenty to go around.
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Ooh, it does look a little wet there, but you have some lovely blooms nevertheless. I’m quite sure that losing labels does not make you a rubbish gardener. 🙂
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Thanks for the vote of confidence, I am such a nag about labels in other people’s gardens I blush a little to think of it!
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I like your six and the fact that you have left space at the bottom of the post for notes. Mine is a bottom B-flat (which, apparently, I can hit despite being a tenor really!). Do engin your weekend off. 😉
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Do I have to fix it? Lets have a look ….
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OK Mr Picky, I’ve sorted it, must have got carried away with my returns. ps love the hidden message!
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I was genuinely thanking you. Did you know it is possible in this day and age to right click, select print and provide yourself with an output on paper? Saves a lot of note writing when you encounter a plant that you decide you want but ….. !
I printed out your post (with note space) before you “corrected” it. So there. Engin the joy. May we have proof of your Mum’s note?
I thought not!
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Um….. were you a prefect at school?
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Lovely six again. I would guess the Hedychium is a gardnerianum form. There’ll be a picture here I dare say if you wade through them all. http://www.johnjearrard.co.uk/plants/hedychium/genus.html
Did that Pelargonium really survive two Devon winters outdoors? I think we have that one.
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Thanks Jim, I will take a look. And yes it did, a tough cookie!
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These are a really nice mix of six! 😉
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Thanks, I like ‘mix of six’!
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Hi Gill
Thanks for the plug for tomorrow. Hedychium fans have been enjoying the totally gob-smacking maximum in the greenhouse since mid August. The hedychium you have is a good form of gardnerianum (they do vary and we also have some not so impressive forms -somewhat relieved we gave you the good one) and is looking good. I’ll have some bits of the wonderful corelli as well as the real Devon Cream next spring and will keep some aside for you. Our greenei has been sulking for the past 3 years and I find it pretty underwhelming when it does flower. We have recently taken delivery of a shoe box of root bits of some of the very best hedychiums from an 80 year old collector in Germany so should have some good ones in flower next year.
All the best
Steve & Dawn
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Sounds amazing! Can’t wait to see what the shoebox produces. Good luck for today, hope the sun shines on you.
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The acer palmatum would make a nice fabric design. Love the color.
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I can see that now that you have mentioned it. This is why I love artists! x
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Lovely, all. I envy your Jap Maples, they would expire in the heat here. Looks like a Disney Ginger to me. Sad news, the hurricane killed my Leonitis.
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Thank you, an advantage of mild and damp I suppose! Sad about your leonotis, do you have more seed?
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No, most everything survived except that was burned nearly black to the base.
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😦 I will collect some seed for you.
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Thank you!
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I have a note from my mum for this week, but hope to be posting next weekend. I especially like the honeysuckle picture, outlined against such a clear blue sky. Pelargonium ‘Pink Capricorn’ has flowered for months for me but it always gets cosseted in the greenhouse where it takes its luck with the whitefly.
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You are a busy bee, so I think you will be excused! Seems that ‘Pink Capricorn’ is very popular, and quite rightly too.
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Thank you!
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