This is going to be whistlestop SoS. If you want to read more, less rushed and far more deliberated versions, pop on over to The Running Propper to find others who obviously take this more seriously and should be lauded. Wow, that was a long sentence, more commas perhaps? Right, let’s shake a leg.
First we have frosty leaves. Yes, leaves from the ornamental pear that still looms large, but rather more naked, in the garden. Since we put the bird feeders up it has become full of itinerant sparrows and one, rather disapproving, robin. I am so pleased the feeders have been found and put to good use. No offence to our residents, but a larger variety of visitors would be nice. A blue tit or goldfinch or blackcap, all welcome.
Next privet. The previous owner planted a strange little hedge-ette beneath and behind the tree. OH hates privet with a vengence. Their days are numbered.
Onto a bargain. Bought these blue hyacinths and mixed iris (possibly reticulata but some look a little large) for half price. They will be potted up with some Allium moly that I am still yet to find a home for. Blue and yellow, very “famous flatpack”. Of course that is if they flower together!
Now a speciality of the region, blurry lichen and moss. A good sign. Not the blurry bit, that was me wobbling trying not to stand on the emerging Tete a Tete, the lichen and moss bit.
Another new bed! This time a home for Salvia uliginosa, Hedychium ‘Tara Seedling’, Bidens ‘Hannay’s Lemon Drop’, Rosa ‘One that The Professor Gave Me and I Can’t be Bothered to Go Out and Find Out What its Called’ and a couple of other things.
Finally the gallant and beautiful Correa schlechtendalii, still having a go.
That’s it, your six for this week. Hope all is well with you all, keeping sixing!
Off The Edge Gardening 
You’re quite attached to your ornamental pair now aren’t you? What I want to know is why the “regional speciality” lichen grows at yours but has never appeared at mine. I’d also like to know what autocorrect thinks it’s doing. I like OH’s taste in hedging. Privet is just a place lots of buses go to (with similar autocorrect incursions).
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I’d like the top taken out, well perhaps 2m. Not sure about the lichen, does the lichen grow on the righteous?
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That Correa schlechtendalii is so pretty and so it the lichen and moss. I must keep my eyes open for lichen on the trees.
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It is a little beauty, although very hard to spell!
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I didn’t dare try typing it in my comment, I copy and pasted!
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Snap! 😀
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I’m doing my best to visualise “a little large”. I do understand what you mean, yet I’m boggled by overthinking!
The Correa is go h-álainn. Anything with colour at this time of year is a bonus.
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❤️🌺❤️🌺❤️🌺❤️
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Such promise in your garden. Privet is one of my childhood memories and the smell, although not particularly pleasant, takes me back to the Surrey garden. I can understand your OH not liking it.
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Yes, the smell is an interesting one! It doesn’t seem to serve much purpose where it is. It has to go!
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The black label is doing stirling work. I wonder whether the black has been phased out as have the black plant pots, cos of the recycling etc.
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You might be right about the black being unrecyclable (is that a real word?)
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I put schlechtendalii into Google, just curious as to who the carrier of so fine a monicker might be, and am now conversant with the medicinal properties of Anthurium schlectendalii and the Chinese sumac moth, Schlectendalii chinensis. I still don’t know who schlectendal was. A few more minutes of my life wasted.
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Ha! It is so easy to get diverted. Here you are https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314390068_Biography_of_D_F_L_von_Schlechtendal_and_type_material_of_his_new_taxa_preserved_in_the_herbarium_of_Martin_Luther_University_Halle-Wittenberg_HAL_and_other_botanical_collections
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The Correa is elegant and worth seeing right now! Very pretty. Can’t wait to see the bed developed in spring-summer.
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It is a great plant, I’m thinking about getting another one. Perhaps one easier to spell. 😀
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Stick insects feed on Privet. Just saying…
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Seriously? Not sure I’ve ever seen a stick insect in the UK in the wild. Perhaps it is because I have never grown privet.
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http://cornwallincolours.blog/2018/07/30/in-my-garden-an-alien-invader/
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lots of exciting things happening in your new garden.
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I suppose so, but it does all seem a bit slow …….. must be more patient! Can’t wait to get seed sowing.
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Do you have excellent alternatives to privet? I have a rather sad privet hedge which I’m trying to rejuvenate but at the moment it is failing to provide the privacy between us and our neighbours which you might think privet ought to provide. If you know of something quick and tasteful (but not conifers) that I could replace it with, all suggestions welcome!
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A mixed wild hedge is unruly but good for wildlife. I love a nice beech hedge, perhaps mixed purple and green.
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Yay for the new border! Privet brings back childhood memories of helping to gather up clippings from a large privet hedge each summer. Not fun. We were taught how to use a privet leaf as a sort of whistle – although I’ve since discovered it’s mildly toxic if eaten!
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I think childhood memories is why OH hates it so much 🙄
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It certainly is nice to have a variety of bird life in the garden, but I do find sparrows endlessly fascinating.
Nice to see the garden taking shape and plans being executed!
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I have been spending too much time on sparrow watch! They are brilliant 🙂
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I’m sending some love for the tree lichen – looks gorgeous!
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Never mind the speediness, always worth reading and look forward to seeing your bulbs in flower.
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I love the featured photo of the frosty leaves, and the Correa!
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