Six on Saturday 20-05

garden

Well , here I am again with six things rifle on in my garden this Saturday . I ’m more than happy to keep this going all by myself ( with Jim ’s capable help ) but it would be fun to get Six on Saturday as a regular matter amongst fellow planty bloggerati . Why not bring together in ?

1 ) genus Allium . This is their , lease ’s see , 3rd year I think , 4th possibly . They clean up the baton from the tulips , and go on to lend value with the seedheads once the colour ’s give out . I do n’t recall the sort , these were found before I go on any kind of record . They are a reliable repeat performer . Mental government note , must get some more for elsewhere in the garden .

2 ) Aquilegia . I ’d let in a picture , but I ca n’t , as none – none ! – have come up this twelvemonth . There are two possibility here . First , I inadvertently dug them all up whilst reset the borderline earlier in the year . Unlikely I get them all , and even if I did there ’d be some seed around . Second , they ’ve be done for by the dreaded mildew which is becoming dominant , it seems . I ’m afraid the latter is more potential than the former , which is a ignominy . I scarcely had a immense collection of them , but they were a good do - er at this sentence of year . It does lay out the opportunity to aquire some seed and grow some switch in a more exciting range of color . Silver liner and all that .

3 ) rainfall ! It has been highly ironic so far this natural spring . Until this workweek , when we have had some properly organise pelting . All day rain , for a couplet of day . In a black eye of recent trends , I ’ve had to UN water some plants . Some plants harden off in tray outside were getting a bit waterlogged , I ’ve been run round twice a day emptying the tray out . you could have too much of a good thing . The rainwater has also brought out the molluscs in force . This sinewy looking chap was intent on munching some lobelia in the cold material body . I intercept him …

4 ) Lawn . I have a smallish lawn , maybe 9 chiliad by 9 m. I use a button mower that I grease one’s palms last summer when my gasoline Book of Job founder up the spook after 15 eld of loyal service . As well as making a pleasingly old - fashioned sound , it ’s a lot light and of row free to run . The lawn did not grow much in the other part of the spring as it was so dry here . It was also becoming a little mossy in places and the locoweed were begin to become bossy . Mossy and bossy ! I never quite got around to practice provender & weed last year , which likely explains why it was looking a little fail . This leap I empower in a hollow - tine aerator . This is a good bit of outfit , quite cheap really , less than £ 15 . It has five tines . The advantage of this over just using a garden fork , allegedly , is that whilst the crotch will make yap in your lawn , it achieves this simply by compacting the land around it . collapse that the aim of this exercise is to reduce compaction , that ’s not good . The empty tine remove a plug of soil , which give everything a piece more room to take a breather . It did look like all the locality cats had devote a visit ( in more than one sense ) . The sparking plug all run on the compost heap .

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Almost there…almost there…oi! what you doing? lemme go!

One minor irritation was that one or two of the tines became clogged from time to time , quite hard to make clean them out satisfactorily .

I have also remember to apply the provender and weed , more than I managed last twelvemonth . That has cleared out the moss and the majority of the weed , leaving the supergrass looking pretty safe in comparability . A couple of weeks later , my dodgy public exposure has become obvious , the lawn march some bar where I missed with the fertiliser . I was in a rush , that ’s my exculpation and I ’m perplex to it .

5 ) Rose ‘ Danse de feu ’ . This is a capital rose . It climbs quite gayly in the tad and flowers like a trooper from about now through the summer . I ’ve get a few cuttings of this on the go , bothhardwoodandsoftwood . I ’m hoping to increase stocks so I can distribute the rosy-cheeked joyousness to other parts of the garden .

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6 ) Rodgersia pinnata . I know the form of the leaves . Until last yr I grew this in full shade , and whilst it acquire quite happily there , I thought I ’d move it to a spot that gets a bit more sun , see how it gets on . So far so good , it seems quite happy . I have seen this variety get really tall , about 5 foot , so am hop for full-grown thing . Literally .

Thanks , enjoy the rest of your weekend !

I ’ll be back next weekend with another Six on Saturday .

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