What do you mean you didn’t miss me? I shall ignore you dissenters.
For those of you who have been paying attention, I am back with my Six on Saturday. After one whole weeks’ absence. This meme is run by The Propagator, pop over to his site to check out his half dozen and other contributors. It’s all good clean fun. Which of course might put some of you off. Sorry about that. Without further ado let’s get on with the task in question.
My first plant this week is Fuchsia ‘Bornemann’s Beste’ which was a gift from Harriet, container gardener extraordinaire, a couple of years ago. Despite its exotic looks it seems to weather the winter without too much compliant.
Next we have Verbascum chaixii, the nettle leaved mullein. It is on its second flush of flowers and has avoided any attack from the mullein moth caterpillar this year. So a gold star to you.
Now something a little more unusual, the restio Calopsis paniculata. I bought this at Powderham Garden Festival a couple of years ago. At Cliffe we grew another restio, Elegia capensis, and since then I have been a fan of this South African grass/bamboo melange.
We have been growing our Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ in a pot for the last seven years and although it is not what I would call “happy” is it what I would call “hanging on in there”. In the recent storms it fell over several times. Cruel really. I especially love the leaves at this time of year, just before they fall. Like stained glass.
What do we have now, oh yes, the name changer. This is Hylotelephium ‘Matrona’ formally the artist known as Sedum ‘Matrona’. This plant is particularly unusual as it was chosen and paid for by my long suffering OH. Great taste. Well he chose me didn’t he? Or was it the other way around?
Finally, one that I tempted you with a few weeks ago, the incredible Hedychium greenii. Not green, but orange.
So that is it for another week. Thanks Mr P. Upwards and onwards!
Off The Edge Gardening 
How nice to see you again, you were of couse deeply missed. I have the sedum, although it is languishing in a pot, haven’t planted it out yet. If finished flowering a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps those two facts are related. I am quite taken by your verbascum. Sigh. Another to add to the want list.
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There is always something else to lust after, we just have to accept our fate!
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The Fuchsia is wonderful and the Verbascum beautiful, I must try the latter again, I also had it in white. The Sedum was indeed a ‘good taste’ gift, may you receive many more. No Saturday Six from me today, broadband is behaving beautifully but my poorly camera is off for repair.
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The white one is lovely too, not sure which I prefer, I know … both! Hope your camera has recovered by next week. x
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Nah, we didn’t miss you. Well you were only absent in spirit, as it were! 😉 Must give that Verbascum a go. Been meaning to try the real perennial type for a while. Love a good stonecrop too. And Cercis in a pot? That’s really off the edge! I’d never have thought you could contain one for that long.
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If you avoid the caterpillars this verbascum is a very easy and rewarding plant to grow. As TT says, the white one is lovely too. They seem to be much stronger than the cultivars.
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Also taken by your Verbascum!
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🙂
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I DID miss you! “Where’s Gill?” I thought to myself. I’ve got these Verbascum volunteering all over the gravel sections of the property: driveway and walkways. They don’t look as beautiful as yours does, though. “Why?” I wonder. Maybe I need to take a closer look. The Hedychium is very handsome, indeed.
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Close up the verbascum are amazing, wonderful stamen! Take a magnifying glass and have a good gander.
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That’s an interesting grass, probably not too hardy.
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No, don’t think it would like your winters very much! As usual, feel free to share mine. 🙂
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I wondered where you were. Out gallivanting I thought instead of lining up her 6 on Saturday. You just can’t trust those girls from Devon.
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So true! 🙂
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Hedychium greenii? I never heard of it. I would not grow it here, but hedychiums are nice in Southern California.
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I do hope you were gallivanting on your Six on Saturday week off! Gorgeous flowers and leaves, thanks for sharing!
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I was! 🙂 And my pleasure x
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