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Another month bites the dust . It is dark of a morning and of an eve , and will get even black in the eve as the clocks go back here tonight . This mainly represent a practical curtailing of the hour available to the gardener , although I have been known to be out weeding with a headtorch on . I have bulbs to plant out , but I suspect this weekend will primarily regard re - paint Mrs P ’s government agency a bring tincture of purpleness ( really it ’s pink , she is in denial ) . While I ’m on my knee sandpaper the skirting circuit card , you could do Six On Saturday . Six affair , in the garden , on a Saturday . It ’s easy , join in !

Here are my Six …

1 – Limited electric-light bulb progress . Last weekend I levered myself off the sofa for a while and got some bulb embed . Specifically , 100 allium ‘ Purple Sensation ’ were care with , leaving 650 tulip and daffs still in their box . I shaft and plant most of the alliums in lot . I put about 20 each in bounteous bathtub like these , they are on either side of the patio steps . I did embed some in the ground , but was discomfited to find my auger practice session bit , my bulb planting secret artillery , was next to useless . It call forth my soil , but did n’t off any , leaving me to delve in with the trowel . I leave up after a tedious half hour , parking the continue genus Allium bulbs 4 or 5 to a 2L mountain , which I will transplant in those grouping to the borders afterward in the wintertime .

2 – Amalanchier ‘ Robin Hill ’ . I know , I late included a leafage from this tree , but the whole tree is now quite orange , desirable of a patch of its own .

3 – Canna seminal fluid pod . One of my plants is leaning obligingly , making the seed pod an easy topic for a quick snap . Their cousin on non - lean plant are 8′ in the air travel .

4 – Peat free bunce . With a vague notion of institute more bulbs , I pop to the garden heart to get some compost . Peat free , these days , of course . I was pleased to find oneself that they had load in stock , and several brands too . I used MiracleGro earlier this yr , seems to do very well , but I ’m also trying SylvaGrow , about which I have discover good affair , and Heart Of Eden , about which I know nuffink . They had New Horizon too , but I ’m never buying that again , downright rubbish . It was raining when I got place , no bulbs were interred .

5 – Mahonia . This plant life has stayed exactly where I put it back in the summer , in a 20L tub on the patio . I have just the patch for it in the shady recess , but I think it is too minor just now . I may plant it out when everything else has die / been cut back .

6 – Japanese anemone . I was at Burford Garden Centre , or the Regional Centre for Removal of Cash from the Pockets of Willing Victims . I was there to play Granny ’s Garden , collecting # 4 child who had abide the night with them . We go far early to reserve a little jobless wandering in the plant discussion section ( for a garden centre , it mostly sells thing other than plant life ) . I was hoping for bargains but at Burford , “ bargain ” prices on end of season works merely bring them down to normal prices . I bought a bunch of perennials to plug a tenacious gap in my sunny border . Although pink , this japanese anemone sort is allegedly well comport . Mind you , it still says “ well-situated to split up in the spring ” on the label , in all probability a euphemism for DIVIDE IT OR ELSE , FOOL .

I go for you have a productinve gardening weekend , do n’t forget to check back later as more liaison get added during the day .

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

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