Not too long ago I’ve been unable to hitch the #SixOnSaturday meme as a lot as I would really like😥 I’ve been busy caring for my dad and mom; my dad had an enormous 💗 operation, then mum made herself sick with all the concern. They’re each of their mid 80s and I joked with them that they’ve been tag-teaming one another with hospital journeys🚑. They’ve an enormous fruit and vegetable backyard and I’ve been spending a number of days every week serving to to maintain the weeds at bay and the tender fruit picked. Strawberry 🍓 anybody? Really I must be providing around the raspberries, however my keyboard didn’t have a well mannered raspberry emoji!
Hopefully I’m forgiven. I did contemplate a #SixOnSaturday publish from my father or mother’s backyard, however six photos of bindweed would have been a bit boring😉.
I had a fast run spherical my very own plot on Thursday morning for some images earlier than heading off for one more gardening marathon.
Let’s begin with this pretty orange rose. ‘College Lady’, given to me by a very good pal as a Christmas reward 🎄🎁to have a good time our continued friendship which started in my kids’s faculty playground.
Subsequent picture is of this pretty Aquilegia, ‘Mrs Scott Elliott’. Purchased as a part of a kind of ridiculously low-cost, cut price pack of crops from a web-based plant vendor. Thoughts you I believe they arrived, all 72 tiny plug crops, for the arctic Easter weekend. My face was an image together with the plummeting temperatures.🥶
Right here’s a photograph of what’s turning into my ‘wilderness’ border. Right here we now have Penstemon, Knapweed, Poppies, Mallow and Scabius all having a drunken get together 🥂after the rain and wind knocked them over. There’s all kinds of different crops hiding in there too.
Subsequent up is Brodiaea Queen Fabiola, a kind of anemone, apparently! I seemed it up utilizing Google lens 👀. If I bear in mind rightly this was one other of these spontaneous finish of line cut price buys. Actually, I don’t bear in mind half the bulbs I purchased final autumn!🙃 I do know I’ve been ready fairly impatiently for these to ‘do something’!
Right here’s a cheery chappie! Coreopsis, ‘Golden Pleasure’. Appears to be like like a mini Carnation, I ponder if they’re associated?
Closing image goes to among the Dahlias, with a few pots of Lupins holding their skirts up away from all of the hungry slugs and snails. I’ve them on one of many backyard seats that we inherited. Good job we had multiple bench, simply in case somebody would really wish to sit 🪑on one relatively than the crops!
On the left in my very personal backyard shed! Purchased out of desperation by the ‘non-gardener’, Now we now have ‘his and her’ sheds! And mine is already stuffed with backyard stuff! I gave the shed a fast coat of do-it-yourself wooden preserver from a nifty tip from Nancy Birtwhistle. (If the identify rings bells she gained a collection of The Nice British Bake Off🥧). Her tip was a mixture of vegetable oil, vinegar and washing-up liquid, which you paint on and depart to dry. It labored a deal with, smelled pretty and was very low priced. Now I’ve plans to place up some guttering to gather rain water because the shed is…properly, fairly a water-shed!🌧
That’s all from me this week.
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Glad gardening,
Rosie
