We are home again after last weekend’s exploits. This week has been busy catching up with work and stuff “that can wait until we get back”. The back boiler was overflowing. Today is ear marked for potting on and general garden pottering and peering. For more tales of horti joys and woes, pop over toContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Home Again”
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Six on Saturday – Scandal
Usually I take my photos and write some of my Six on Saturday the day before, tweaking and posting on Saturday morning. No great scandal there. This week is different. I am not here. I am somewhere else with OH and Lady Mantle. Also no scandal. Actually, the day is young, so no promises. ItContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Scandal”
Six on Saturday – There Will Always Be Nasturtium
On the swingometer known as The British Weather, the arrow is apparently shifting to “mini-heatwave”. We should, however, put this into perspective. On a world scale, this is small beer, we are not talking high summer in Death Valley or even sub-Saharan spring. It is going to be a bit warm after being a bitContinue reading “Six on Saturday – There Will Always Be Nasturtium”
Six on Saturday – Here Comes the Rain
We wished for it and our hopes were answered. You can, however, have too much of a good thing. Enough rain now. Please. Have a nosey at our SoS leader’s site, Jim at Garden Ruminations, to find out if anyone else is acting like a spoilt brat. Shall we mosey on? This delicate umbellifer, ChaerophyllumContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Here Comes the Rain”
Six on Saturday – Awakenings
Well, this is more like it. Stuff seems to be happening in the garden. Good stuff. That, to me, is the definition of spring. Positivity. And don’t we need it?! Shoots and blossom and frogspawn are useful allies in reminding us of stronger forces. We need less reporting by mainstream media on the deluded andContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Awakenings”
The One that Didn’t Get Away
In our house, there are many things that elicit rolling of eyes and tut-tutting. High on the list of irritants are quiz show contestants who say, after getting a question wrong, “oh, I was going to say that!”. Well this is the blog posting equivalent. Last weekend I noticed that the Pseudowintera colorata ‘Moulin Rouge’Continue reading “The One that Didn’t Get Away”
Six on Saturday – Competition
On a day of bright sunshine, bluster and showers so shocking to make you chuckle, it was a minor challenge to get any decent photos. This makes me ponder as to what is the most important, Six on Saturday-wise, the shots or the words? The most important to me or to you? Words are moreContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Competition”
Six on Saturday – Whinge Free
No whinging this week, I promise. I’m too scared of Jude to try that lark again. Of course, she is quite right and I have given myself a serious talking to. And for once I actually listened. So, for one day only, which is all I can promise, all will be happy, upbeat and optimistic.Continue reading “Six on Saturday – Whinge Free”
Six on Saturday – Meagre
When does it get any easier? I’m finding Six on Saturday particularly tricky this year. Perhaps this is my floral equivalent of the hunger gap. In the scheme of things this problem is small fry and of course it can easily be remedied. I need to explore plant possibilities that will give me a littleContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Meagre”
Six on Saturday – Pinch Punch
Happy 1st of March to you all. For the optimists, debatably deluded on this frosty morning, this means spring has officially begun. For the pragmatists, we are still officially in winter until the 20th of this month. Naturally, I am in the former category, ready to be disheartened when the snow starts and all myContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Pinch Punch”