Most people were still in bed when I took my early morning tour of the garden just now. It would have been someone special's birthday and I was wondering what I would have cut as a posy from the garden for her bouquet.. But this is not about posies which I could then talk about, it is not Monday for A Vase on Monday. This is Saturday the day for Six things to write about and share with gardening friends brought together under Jon's enabling blog: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/11/six-on-saturday-11-06-2022/
1. To start off with Rose Ghislaine de Féligonde is in bloom. Mr S, who sometimes likes a little responsibility, has been given the task of dead heading this one as often as he likes. Being tall he can reach all the blooms whilst standing only on the gravel path, no feet on the border as it contains all manner of delicate plants and the now dormant snowdrops and other bulbs.
2 For a semi shaded area this is about my most favourite and dependable all year round ground cover plant but isn't it also pretty when in flower?
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| Saxifraga stolonifera |
3. Who dares let the odd self seeded plant thrive can end up with a fabulous specimen.
4. For a pop of colour at this time of the year, the Hardy Geranium 'Ann Folkard' winding herself through everything else is hard to beat. With all the rain we have had this week, it is as if everything is on steroids.
That's it for this week, still much to do in the garden, more than I have time for really. I'll view and comment in bits and pieces and in between everything else that is going on.
That Love In the Mist is fantastic and I can almost taste a delicious Gooseberry fool. I would love to take you up on the other of Cyclamen seed. I shall send a separate message.
ReplyDeleteFrom time to time, I find gooseberry icecream, and I shall be making room in the freeze for my icecream in the next week or so.
DeleteThe ants are doing some gardening for you, spreading those seeds around so nicely. Nigella is beguiling indeed, I also find them exceptionally beautiful. Very pretty grouping with the Saxifraga there.
ReplyDeleteThank you, we almost have too many ants! but they are tolerated.
DeleteI don't know if my gooseberries will ripen enough because I had a massive attack of caterpillars this year : they ate all the leaves of my currants, gooseberries and now they are attacking blackcurrants... Never had so many.
ReplyDeleteNice photo of cyclamens !
What a pity Fred, I do watch out for them and go and swash them. We also have sawflies which attack the roses, the same fate awaits them too.
DeleteGuess what? We bought Ann Folkard this week! Love your poem and, of course, nigella. Sending a hug on your day of remembrance x
ReplyDeleteThanks Gill, your Ann Folkard will certainly bring a pop to the garden.
DeleteI have plants of Saxifrage stolonifera in various places, it is so lovely at the moment, wouldn't be without it. Love it when the ants spread the seeds of various plants about, thats the sort of gardening I like!
ReplyDeleteYes and they find the best of places too.
DeleteWonderful Love in the Mist poem. I had the white variety magically appear from nowhere last year. Alas, it doesn't appear to have produced any offspring. The semi-shaded area looks lovely.
ReplyDeleteI find the LITM was skip a year, maybe the seeds are waiting till next.
DeleteWe've failed miserably with Ann Folkard and Ann Thompson, which to read other peoples accounts of them, takes some doing. Must try again. Potting up some of your cyclamen from a couple of years ago is on my urgent to do list. Lovely forms.
ReplyDeleteOh I do look forward to seeing the cyclamen. If only I had room to grow more! How do you manage with other Geraniums?
DeleteHaha, my climbing roses ae certainly less well deadheaded than the shrub roses, where I can pluck the heads without getting something to stand on! That saxifraga certainly looks a good addition to a shady border, one to look out for, I think - and I love these stalwart geraniums too
ReplyDeleteI love your Rosa 'Ghislaine de Féligonde' not just pretty but a lovely name. Mr B suggested I have a 'french' rose garden with all the lovely names in it and a 'naff' rose garden with all the awful names in it (Sexy Rexy springs to mind).
ReplyDeleteI laughed out loud at Mr B's suggestion. I think he would suggest that Cuisse de Nymphe emue which I had in a previous garden and is lovely, could even have her own reclining stature! Brilliant idea, and you have the space to develop this.
DeleteIt’s most handy indeed having a tall assistant gardener Noelle as I know from experience 😂 The saxifraga is rather magical in flower. The comment will record me as anonymous but it’s Anna commenting. Struggling with an iPad!
ReplyDeleteI also have a recently purchased long handled lopper, and even Mr S uses this instead of getting the ladder out. Anna, with Cathy you and I we have some excellent gardeners who can easily get down low and keep the garden there in very good form.
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