Six on Saturday – Inbetweeny

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Here we are in Inbetweeny Time, a time which is simultaneously “after” and “before”. It is a time of national confusion. No one is quite sure what day it is, who is working and who is not, with the added trauma of working out when the recycling should go out, as if we miss it there could be catastrophic consequences. The incessant mist doesn’t help with this temporal uncertainty.

Something that binds together this fragmentary interlude, if only we would let it into our hearts, is Six on Saturday. Today I can hold my head up with confidence and shout “It is Saturday!” If you would like to meet others that have also found a bookmark in the bewildering Inbetweeny Time, pop over to Garden Ruminations and all will be most certain. Unless of course you look tomorrow, then I cannot be sure what you will find.

First, an indication of the mildness of the weather, this Salvia corrugata is having another crack at flowering. This tender, canon fodder, is dangerously out of sync and this very fact is a little disturbing. I am under no illusion that the weather might snap at any time putting an end to all this confusion. Which I both want and don’t want at the same time.

Correa schlechtendalii is a winter bloomer and very lovely it is too. The name is perhaps a little challenging.

This odd little variegated agave, bought off a stall outside someone’s house in Newlyn, has always gone its own way. I keep threatening to divide it up but this hasn’t yet come to fruition. You’ve seen the spikes, right?!

Another correa, this time backhousiana which has grown well, if not a little wayward. Apparently, this little shrub makes a good hedge if planted with several of its siblings. I think that sounds a wonderful idea. Let me know when you’ve done it.

Another tender time traveller is Salvia curviflora. Again, how long this lovely sage has left on Planet Gloom is in the lap of the horti-gods.

Lastly, we have the spent bracts of Hydrangea aspera ‘Hot Chocolate’, three maids all in a row. Soon enough I will be pruning these off and the cycle will continue. We must keep the faith in these dark days. That is one of our jobs as gardeners, and a very important one it is too.

There we have it, my last Six on Saturday for 2024. See you next year!

20 thoughts on “Six on Saturday – Inbetweeny”

  3. Salvias and correas are here this week ! … and you have my congratulations because you managed to find six things in the middle of winter between Christmas and the New Year ( in this Inbetweeny time as you said )

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  8. GADS! Agave americana ‘Variegata’! How WICKED! The straight species with grayish foliage is naturalized appropriately on Alcatraz. One needs quite a bit of space, and it looks like there are at least four there.

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      1. Oh, thank you; but there are already too many of the common gray sort here. They keep generating pups that I can not give away. I may put them in a row as a deer fence, but off the edge (tee hee) from the orchard, so that they do not occupy so much usable space. Some of the several species at work are smaller, so more appropriate to home gardens.

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  9. What a good set of photos – I’d be hard-pushed to find anything worthwhile, if and when, I dare take the camera into the garden! I love ‘Inbetweeny Time’ – I’ve added that name to my next year’s calendar so I can tell everyone that this is Inbetweeny Time! Thanks for the intro paragraph, a perfect description!

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