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Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything – a good flower , a pet bush , a project , a bankruptcy , funny wrought vegetable , anything ! Why not conjoin in ? Here are my six for this workweek .
1 – Fuschia – these ladies ( and they are ladies ) seem to be out of fashion for some reason . I always have a few knocking about the place . They are reliably unfearing , flower for ages , and as # 4 child often suppose , look like ballerinas . They are also comparatively easygoing to propagate from cuttings . What ’s not to like ? I ’ve had a soft spot for them since a primary shoal visit to Avery Hill College hothouse in ( blimey ! ) 1981 , maybe , where they had many examples .
2 – Painted Lady Fern ( athyrium niponicum var pictum ) . I have just a few fern , but I do wish them . Border 5 in the garden is a longish border and it is mostly shaded for most of the daytime . At a push I might indicate that the very edge is partial shade , but really it ’s full shade in the main . Ferns , being mostly woodland creatures , are happy enough in these condition and all my ferns are in this molding . These silver - leaved ferns were bought from a specialist shady plant nursery a couple of geezerhood ago . They have been small ever since , but this year are lead off to establish . They are a little tucked away under a shrub , so are just coquetishly show a bit of leg , a closer looking at is necessary to see more , as it were . Rude ! I like both the colour and the form of the fronds .
3 — Allium . I have the flower from these medulla several weeksago . The flowers are long gone , but they continue to provide good service as seed top dog . I find them structurally quite absorbing . I leave them in till they necessarily collapse under their own weightiness later in the summertime .
4 – Lychnis chalcedonica ( pinkish form ) – I grew these from germ some age back , they are a reliable repetition performing artist in Border 3 , and have not been too badly behaved from a self - seeding point of view . I am not a huge fan , to be perfectly honest . The photo is quite flattering as it ’s a close up , but the flush are rather little and a bit anon. at garden scale . I can well imagine ditch them in favour of something more interesting in next yr , but for now they stay , why not ?
5 – Geranium ex-wife nodosum- I buy this at a plant clean a few week ago for peanuts , it was probably a section from a fellow Hardy Planter ’s garden , maturate from seed , so the parent may have been a different colouring material . I ’ve put it in Border 4 in a fair funny smear . It is still flower away quite happily , but I ’m tempted to chop it back to further another flush of increment . The bloom are small , but shiny and nicely marked . I ’ll probably increase by partitioning later in the year , see how it gets on .
6 – Rose ( sort still unknown ) – this is an encore from the mystery arise I have last hebdomad . At that time there was only one flush but plenty of bud . It is now run bonkers with the flaars , could n’t hold out including it again .
Enjoy your weekend , and I ’ll be back with another Six next Saturday .
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