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#SixOnSaturday 25/07/2026

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I’ve been busy this week, so not too much gardening done, but I’ve had a few happy evenings filled with soft, end-of-day sunshine to fully appreciate the garden.

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

1. Second flush of flowers on this clematis. The original run was a bit disappointing, with the petals slightly malformed. Possibly something to do with the heat, but this second run are lovely.

A clematis growing up the side of a garden room.

2. Another clematis. This one I bought at the beginning of the summer. I wanted it to soften the edge of our garden room. I’ve had to keep it very well watered but it’s responded much better than I expected and is looking lovely.

3. You can just about see that clematis in this photo. I’m not sure the picture really does it justice, but this angle of the garden is looking lovely at the moment, especially when soaked in the evening sun. (I’ve just realised I included almost exactly this photo last week. Oh well.)

A japonese anenome flower

4. I have a forgotten patch of Japanese anenomes whch have slowly colonised the flower bed under the eucalyptus, behind my acanthus. They’ve come up quietly and are looking lovely.

A lone crocisma

5. When I moved into the house twenty years ago, there was a patch of crocosmia on the other side of the eucaplyptus. It’s never really done anything and over the years, I’ve removed bits of it. Last autumn, I dug it all out but at the last minute shoved a few corms back in the ground. This one stands all on its own and is flowering nicely. (Behind are some seedlings of Honesty “Chedglow,” that I’m hoping will look good next year.)

An airplant with an orangey red trumpet flower

6. Inside the conservatory, we have a few airplants, which get to sit centre stage in there while its winter residents enjoy being outside. I noticed this week, that one of them has started to flower. It’s a gorgeous orangey red colour.

That’s it for this week. See you next time, and thanks for looking at my #SixonSaturday

7 responses to “#SixOnSaturday 25/07/2026”

  1. KathrinS Avatar
    KathrinS

    I’ve never seen an airplant flower! How amazing!
    We also have pre-existing Crocosmia. The one in the back seems to have died, but the ones in the front are doing well. Yours really is a lovely, bright colour!

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    1. wisconsingarden Avatar
      wisconsingarden

      Haha! You have seen a picture if an airplant in bloom – I had a post with mine in the spring and you posted a reply to at least one of my posts, but airplants all look so different. Mine (T caput-medusae) that bloomed this year and are now putting on offsets, looks more like a succulent than this lovely which I think is T adreana, one I had hoped to get before I discovered how hard it is to keep the ones with very thin leaves in a very dry environment like my house in winter (8% humidity is common). I would probably need to set up a sort of humidity chamber, but not let it get too moist, so no, I always go with what is easy, thick leaves or downright xeric species like T tectorum.

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      1. KathrinS Avatar
        KathrinS

        Ahh I must have just filed it away as a succulent in my head! We have some airplants in the conservatory at our park, but they have never bloomed yet, so I’ve definitely not seen it in person.

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    2. Robin Avatar
      Robin

      I didn’t realise they flowered either. But I suppose they’ve got to reproduce somehow! The flower has now faded away, though the most of the the fronds are now a bright orangey red colour. I wish I’d bought an extra one now!

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  2. wisconsingarden Avatar
    wisconsingarden

    Ahh, the tillandsia is lovely! I can’t manage the fine leafed ones because the hous is too dry in winter – it is all I can do to keep the others well watered. I had e T folifolia but it did not make it through the first winter. I had wanted an Adreana (is that what you have pictured?), but based on my experience, no. Best stick with what wants to do well with what I can provide! Maybe next week I will show my T caput medusae that has its first pup.

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  3. Jim Stephens Avatar
    Jim Stephens

    I left a crocosmia with one or two non-flowering stems in last year and this year have a sizeable clump with lots of flower stems, they’re a bit too fond of Cornwall and I will remove them before they set seed.

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  4. Beth@PlantPostings.com Avatar
    Beth@PlantPostings.com

    Wow, that Japanese Anemone is gorgeous–your photo is frameable! Your Clematises are lovely, too. And I think your photo of the patio garden is perfect. One can imagine sitting comfortably there and enjoying the summer beauty.

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