SixOnSaturday

Six on Saturday . Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . simpleton !

Here are my Six for this week .

1 – Fuchsia ‘ Riccartoni ’ . Bought to prepare against fences and rampart , I have a few of this one now . This plant is in a container with rose and clematis along my side paries . It did n’t do much last year , but this twelvemonth it has grown several feet . I have failed to control it so it is flop about all over the place . I should train it as the new outgrowth may endure the winter well closer to the household wall .

2 – Phygelius / Cape fuchsia / Cape figwort ‘ Funfare orange ’ . Not a fanfare , implying bugles and trumpets , no , afunfare , someone tooting the fun horn , as it very much were . I bought one plant last year , it has gone gaga this year . I also take one cutting last year which rooted easily and which has also produce well . I can see I will take to keep an eye on them , make certain they do n’t take over .

3 – Unruly rose . I have lost controller of the front garden , including the two big planters . This rose , ‘ Generous Gardener ’ has put out two good new radical , which a more diligent gardener would have link up in long ago . I keep meaning to do it , but somehow I never had the drawing string to hand . There are even bloom at the end of the stem , seeable mainly to the insects that be in the cracks in the pavers on the drive .

4 – Crocosmia , basic one . I suppose I grew these from semen I snaffled from an fall garden visit a few years back . There are two lump ( rapidly becoming one prominent clump ) in my terrace border . They look well establish now , and their sword like foliage are a pleasing mansion of summertime to occur , but then they get obscured by the loosestrife behind and the rudbeckia to the fore . I should move them really . Despite all the obstacles I spotted these flower spikes be given gamely through the competition .

5 – Begonia , red’un . So red , in fact , that my phone camera has issues conquer it properly . This begonia is one i bought , God , years ago , at least 5 . It lived in one of the patio planter , minding its own business among some very perennial tulip bulbs . Every year it came back after dying down over winter , the planter being just warm enough to keep it alive without any particular treatment . During some repairs , I abandon the planter , determine to bin the tulips and try something new . I almost did n’t see the begonia tuber , but spotted it as it was going into the barrow for disposal . I claim ruth on it , chucking it in a pot and exit it in the nursery over wintertime . It lives .

6 – Loosestrife / genus Rudbeckia combo . I am fond to a purple / yellow combination . The loosestrife is much taller than the rudbeckia , but is obliging by flopping over to a more accommodative elevation .

Have a topnotch horticulture weekend . I need to attempt to wrest some stratum of control back . The bindweed is being a massive bother in the derriere , the grass insists on farm and not mow itself , and I have n’t deadheaded anything in workweek . Sigh .

I ’ll be back next weekend for another # SixOnSaturday .

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