PotsandPlots

I don’t have any pictures to prove it, but I mowed the lawn this week. I can’t remember the last time I did that. This led to an unprecedented bout of weeding. I was in the zone and didn’t want to interrupt this sudden desire to do gardening’s most boring job. As a result, a rushed 6 for me this week.

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

1. I can’t begin to describe how little this clematis looks like this, but I just couldn’t get my phone to pick out the colour properly. In reality, this final flourish of my clematis is a much deeper, almost imperial purple.

2. Some stachys that I added to the garden this year. It didn’t flower, but the silver foliage is adding a nice edge to one of my new flower beds. I only bought 3 plants, but I’ll definitely be adding some more next year, as I’ve been impressed with the effect they’ve created, even if it doesn’t currently stretch very far.

3. This is a classic angle for my garden in the spring. The best view in May and June. With the acer on the turn, there’s still some Autumn interest. After battling slugs earlier in the year, the Salvia Amistad have now grown significantly and are flowering nicely. I’ve taken some cuttings, and I shall cover the plants in the ground with fleece over the winter, so hopefully I can get them to return next year one way or another

4 Last week I showed a picture of my half-removed weigela. It didn’t take very long to remove the rest. I’ve plugged the gap with a pot-bound Cornus Anny’s Winter Orange; hopefully it will thrive now that it’s in the ground.

I’ve added a few low plants at the front edge of garden, and have been tidying up the rest of the bed. It’s still very much a work in progress. I’m waiting for another plant delivery! I removed one set of Rudbeckia to the back garden, and I’ve made some space for the second lot to be transferred too.

If all goes well, I’m also going to remove the hydrangea and transplant the ill-placed silver Teucrium fruticans to form a hedge under the window. I’ve taken some cutting of the Teucrium as I’m not sure it will take to being moved. I also have cuttings of the two hyndrangea, so I can regrow them in a more suitable spot in the back garden.

5 The Rudbeckia have mostly been looking a bit forlorn this year and required a lot of watering. They’re adding a little late summer cheer to the front right now, but I am going to replace them, moving this lot to the back.

6. Another Cobaea watch photo. I managed to get a couple of seeds to germinate and grow. One of them I put out the front. It fared less well than its counterpart at the back, I think because it took a blasting in the initial heatwave we had. It’s now huge, reaching our second storey windows. There have been no flowers yet. A few have withered on the vine, but perhaps I’ll get on or two before the frosts come.

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