Six on Saturday. Enjoying the Rain.

Well , that is a routine of an exaggeration ; I am get a bit sick of grey-headed skies and rain but my freshly planted garden is make out it and so is my first plant , Eucomis vandermerwei .

This beauty comes from an alpine sphere with heavy summertime rain so it should finger quite at nursing home this year . Its homeland is a South African mountain plateau in Mpumalanga and it is used to ice in wintertime , but not winter wet , so it lives in the greenhouse in winter and is kept middling ironical . This is a dwarf eucomis with attractive purple spotted leaves with rippled edges . It is on the red inclination in the wild in South Africa because it is becoming quite rarefied . The flowers with the typical eucomis Ananas comosus - like tuft are a endearing dark maroon . Incidentally , although this is sometimes yell the Pineapple Lily , it is neither a pineapple or a lily . It is actually a member of the asparagus family . I mean next year I will keep it in a pot as it mystify a bit overlooked when it is planted out as it is so lowly and rather overshadow by nearbyEucomis‘Sparkling Burgundy ’ which is immense . Mind you , this is not one for the conservatory as the blossom are pollenate by flowers and smell of carrion .

Dahlias are thirsty plants too and they are relishing all this rain . I miss all mydahlias . As readers of my blog will know I grew mickle and ended up with 70 home base grown 1 because , I could n’t bear to switch any away . Now I have just a few named varieties and I have allow for all my babies behind . This Japanese kind calledDahlia‘Tsuki - yori - no - shisha ’ is one that many of my fellow bloggers grow . The flowers are wonderful for a vase . It is ridiculously over the top , some may say , vulgar . But I love it . It has huge fimbriated creamy white-hot prime and looks like a vast , shaggy bird ruffling up its feathers in a rage .

Eucomis vandermerwei

It makes a large , imposing industrial plant which I like in front of the mordant shed . Some visitors love it and others see it and look rather startled and embarrassed , as if they have catch me out in an appalling want of discernment and do n’t like to note it . I can never remember its Japanese name but the interlingual rendition is ‘ Messenger from the Moon ’ which is endearing .

I love ashen flowers and I was pleasantly surprised when the sanguisorba I corrupt as ‘ Pink Tanna ’ turned out like this . I just have it off those fluffy white caterpillars . It looks likeSanguisorba albiflorabut I ca n’t be certain as sanguisorbas are a relatively newfangled passion . I have a few others and I shall certainly corrupt more as I ca n’t resist them . I believe most of them prefer a damp filth , so here is another industrial plant enjoying this summer . unlike coinage hybridise readily so if you have several dissimilar single the children might be interesting .

Since displace to this small garden I am maturate a muckle of clematis because I love them and because vertical horticulture is a great use of space . They have done very well in such a short time and another day I will show you some of them . But although I maturate plant from seeds and cuttings all the time , I have never had much success acquire clematis from cuttings . This next one , a lovelytexensistype bid ‘ Princess Kate ’ is my only success .

Eucomis vandermerwei

of late , I realise lovelyClematis ‘ John Huxtable ’ a beautiful tardy - floweringJackmanniclematis in a acquaintance ’s garden and amount home with lots of cutting material . My friend assured me that this is one that is well-to-do from cuttings . I have found that some roses root much easy than others from cutting , but I never thought that this might be the case for clematis . Anyway , I have a tip that I ’d like to deal with you that comes from the lady who does all the extension for Suffolk Plant Heritage . You probably know that clematis cuttings should be internodal , but I have see that if you slice the fore vertically for a brusque way , then spread the two ‘ legs ’ out and insert them all the way into the compost then this encourages roots to develop . You probably knew this , but it is new to me and I am look forward to seeing how it shape .

I do care to include something fragrant and my next flower is intensely sweet - smelling , but only at night . I have written about it before because it is a great ducky of mine . During the daytime it is quite an unimportant picayune flower with tightly close white flowers backed with maroon . It is an well-situated to grow annual calledZaluzinskya capensis ‘ Midnight Candy’and I always have to look up how to spell it . I inseminate it in March in pots so that I have some to keep and some to give to friends . It is no use growing this in a molding as it looks so insignificant during the day and does n’t sense at all . Grow it in a pot and institute it in for the even and the fragrance will amaze you . Those starry white-hot flowers open up at night and smell of dear and spice and maybe coconut ; I receive scents difficult to describe , but take it from me this one is amazing .

I will eat up with an fleur-de-lis which is lay in a surprisal August performance . It is a Cedric Morris Iris seedling and this is the first sentence it has flowered so perhaps it has n’t yet learnt that it is supposed to bloom in June . It has quite a small flower but I love all these Cedric Morris baby and get very frantic when one blooms for the first clip .

Dahlia ‘Tsuki-yori-no-shisha’

Six on Saturday get along to you courtesy of Jim atGarden Ruminations . He always has interesting plants to show us and so do all the many bloggers who now join in . What a adorable way to drop a showery Saturday afternoon ; a nice loving cup of tea leaf and good deal of interesting plants from all round the humankind .

51 Responses toSix on Saturday. Enjoying the Rain.

I do n’t get laid which makes me more envious : your summer rain or the Dahlia pinnata and clematis . I do n’t know how anyone could plow up their nose at Dahlia ‘ Tsuki - yori - no - water pipe ’ . I ’ve been looking for this tuber and have yet to find it either topically or from mail order vendor . I ’m still waiting on my dahlia flowers , The tubers go in later due to our unusually long stint of cool weather and the first heyday are only now very slowly unfurling .

I was briefly on the edge of the Fens yesterday Chloris and was amazed by the moonsoon like rain that came down at lunch time ! Some intriguing gems as usual . I saw a whitened sanguisorba in a garden of late which has gone on the wish list . That ’s a most interesting backsheesh regarding clematis film editing . Good fate with your cuttings .

I find your description of the aboriginal home ground of the eucomis , I often look up where plants come from and does n’t S.Africa have a rattling range of plant .

Dahlia‘Tsuki-yori-no-shisha’

Yes , that Eucomis is a fascinating plant . I love the Dahlias , too . I am a bit challenged in maturate Dahlias because of my want of sun here , but they are wonderful flush . ‘ Midnight Candy ’ is really dandy , too !

Six on Saturday. Enjoying the Rain.