PotsandPlots

Another slow week in the garden, though I did get out most days. Not much has changed since last week.

SixOnSaturday is curated by Jim at Garden Ruminations, and you can find the participation guidelines here.

My first couple of pictures are a direct result of starting SixOnSaturday and the subsequent discovery of more gardening blogs.

1. None of the above pictures are mine. They’re screen-shotted from last week’s Gardener’s World. Jim at Garden Ruminations mentioned that his garden (which is filled with camellia) was going to be on the show. I love the SixOnSaturday photos he takes, so I wanted to check it out. He’s on towards the end (46.30), but toward the beginning (5.00), there was something truly magical.

Being only a recent convert to the Way of the Green Finger, I had never heard of Mary Keen, but she is a long-standing gardening designer and writer. The GW team caught up with her at home. Her garden is inspirational. I’d love to create something even half as beautiful.

So now, I have something to aim for! Mary is 86, which, if I lived that long, gives me 33 years to try and emulate it.

2. I’ve been following Katrin at Highgate Garden since my first SixonSaturday post. She has an ambitious project on her hands, building a garden, with a very steep incline, more or less from scratch. A couple of weeks ago, she posted a picture of a three-cornered leek, which is apparently invasive, but also edible; Katrin made pesto out of it.

I thought, “oh, I’ve got one of those in my front garden, perhaps I’ll do the same.” According to Seek (Powered by iNaturalist) and Google Lens, mine is a summer snowflake. The plants are startling similar. Summer snowflake is poisonous, so it’s a good job I didn’t make pesto out of it!

There’s a small clump sitting in the front corner of my front garden, and it’s rather pretty, so I’ll leave it there.

3. Daffodils, still life with clothes horse. The daffs are still going strong. I really need to get better at looking all around my plants when taking photos, so I don’t end up with random household items in the background.

4. This Euphorbia is one of my favourite plants in the garden, and it’s almost at full power. The flower heads are nearly fully open. It looks great against the yellow-green heuchera

5. I have a couple of tulips about to flower in the garden that I replanted from previous “tulip lasagne’ pots. You can see my primroses are still going strong in the background. My camera clearly wanted to focus on them, rather than the tulip, but it’s now raining, so I can’t retake the picture!

6. This one is a bit of a cheat, as it’s actually from my neighbour’s garden, growing in the gutter grate between house and driveway. I used the expression in a recent SixOnSaturday post, and as the whole SoS process continually forces me to examine my garden more deeply, I’m sure I’ll use it again – Life finds a way!