Six on Saturday – Disintegrating

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I was resigned to a no-SoS week. It was my first week back to work after the Dreaded and a rest was in order, the car was having some work done in the garage and the rain was falling. A day of Murder She Wrote, catching up with friends and reading last weekend’s papers was in order. During a digital conflab with the wonderful Torrington Tina she said “I’m looking forward to your Six on Saturday”. Darn it. Or perhaps “Thank you for the kick up the posterior”. And here we are. A slightly blurry insight into a rapidly disintegrating garden. Sometimes we need a little encouragement and I thank you TT, that’s what friends are for. Shall we get on?

I am slightly ashamed that I have only come to the zinnia party in the last couple of years. Now I won’t hear a bad word about them. At present they are fighting their corner like good ‘uns, battling for space and definitely holding their own. They could almost oust cosmos from No. 1 position in Gilly’s Top Ten of Annuals.

Fuchsia ‘Lady Boothby’ was a rescue from my sponsor. The plant looked doomed after last winter’s onslaught, but once we started digging it up it seemed all was not lost. We had already removed one piece. “Don’t chuck that bit of root, I’ll have it!”. The happy end to the story was that my piece has thrived and so has the remaining plant. Phew!

Plectranthus zuluensis (probably) has eventually found a space to poke its head out into the world. I must treat this plant better, today (probably) it will be dug up and prepared for a life of luxury in the greenhouse until spring.

Seed collecting has finished, anything left is too soggy to worry about. Now I have to post it off to those I’m promised. You know who you are.

Pelargonium echinatum ‘Album’ was moved to the greenhouse before we went away. It has rewarded me by flowering again.

Finally, Geranium ‘Ann Folkard’, creeping through the delicious foliage of Hydrangea aspera ‘Hot Chocolate’. Doubly good.

That is your lot, another six, another Saturday. Now, what was I not doing ……?

33 thoughts on “Six on Saturday – Disintegrating”

  1. Gosh, you’ve been busy with the seed collecting. While I’ve always been very pro-Zinnia I’ve turned against them this year – I think only one made it to flowerhood this summer! Great photos by the way – I especially like the Pelargonium echinatum ‘Album.’ Good to hear you’ve recovered.

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  2. At last I am first! 😎 A word from your sponsor…. It was you who opined that Lady B had “had it”, which led to the digging up of bits. Another acquisition tactic has been revealed.

    Your seed collecting results look good. I trust that OH doesn’t think that display is a Chinese takeaway. 🍲 A very nice (if overlong) Pellie has been espied and shall go on MY acquisition list.

    PS I have plants arriving today. 😋

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  3. Thanks for the kind comments on my blog….I am more than happy to supply you with rooted bits of Chrysanths if you wish?? I too have a poorly looking Lady Boothby lurking somewhere in the shrubbery, thanks for the reminder, I must go and dig her up!
    Stay dry!

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  9. You’ll not hear a word against zinnias from me but I have grown them this year and last and will not be doing so again. A short dalliance. There’s something painfully familiar about all those seeds, I have a similar lot, mostly in need of cleaning up. I concur on P. zuluensis, that’s what we grow under that name, originally from the lovely Hill House Nursery.

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  11. Ooh what a good cookie you are, saving all those seeds! 🙂🌸 Lovely zinnia, yes I am a late liker of zinnias too, if I can grow them in the heat of summer. Lovely Plectranthus. Get well soon, enjoy your TV watching!

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  14. That is a really impressive variety of seeds you’ve saved! I forgot to plant zinnias this year but will not again next year seeing everybody’s lovely pictures.

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  15. What a clutter of seed! It can be such a bad habit. For the first time ever, I disposed of the deadheaded tops of some sort of unidentified campanula that I typically collect seed from. It was liberating! I still collect money plant seed though, but I can justify that. We scatter it where a bit more would be an asset to the landscape. The campanula is getting to be a bit more than I want.
    Zinnia is a completely different issue though. They do not perform well for us. They were nice this year, but I will not feel guilty about not wanting to grow them again.

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