SixOnSaturday

fall is on its way out already ! That was truehearted . I suppose it has seemed short because Summer hang on for so long . Most farewell have dropped here , and although it is not particularly cold-blooded , the air has that autumnal flavour to it , and it is dark-skinned by 4:30pm . It ’s not all sombreness and doomsday , there ’s plenty going on in my garden , wad of jobs to do . Before I get begin on those , it ’s sentence for Six on Saturday – six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything – a plant , a flower , a beastie , a job to do , a pest , a harvest home , anything at all . Join in !

Here are my Six for this calendar week .

1 – Geranium macrorrhizum ‘ Bevan ’s Variety ’ . I grease one’s palms one of these industrial plant for a fiver in the 50 % off sales agreement at my local Wyvale a calendar month or so back . I dither for a while about whether to divide now in the Autumn , or wait until the Spring . I decided to go for it . It was not a precise business . I pulled the inadequate plant life asunder , aiming for a chunk of rootstalk / rooty textile and some greenery in each piece . I then plonked them in compost and they have been in the greenhouse this last few hebdomad , minding their own line . Whilst some of the foliage has blow over away , each still has plenty of decent greenish leaf and all are producing Modern increase from the root word . Seven plants for the price of one – I ’ll call that a win !

2 – Mulch ado about nothing . Last weekend I spent an 60 minutes or two barrowing home - made compost around the garden . I had enough to put a thick mulch on the retentive gay molding and on the wisteria border . The margin always reckon much neater with a fresh blanket of mulch .

3 – raw Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ! I have been ruminate a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree purchase for a few weeks now , and after a lot of mulling , and a lot of helpful suggestions via chirrup , I finally made up my idea . I buy a Cercis canadensis ‘ Forest Pansy ’ and an Amelanchier x grandiflora ‘ Robin Hill ’ . Both are small tree , reaching perhaps 4 or 5 metres in 20 years , and both render stake in 3 seasons . I ’m looking forward to seeing what they do next year . Planting them out will be a job for this weekend .

4 – Sweet peas . These have been in their wintertime accommodation for a few weeks now . They seem to be doing pretty well . I will soon need to pilfer them out , to encourage some side shootery .

5 – Bloody Jasmine . Not its horticultural name , just what I call it . Every twelvemonth I do engagement with it , sometimes more than once . From one plant several years back , I now have a great wrapping of it . It roots wherever it tinge the background . It flowers for about 5 minutes in the summer , but for the repose of the year it is a right goon . I will have at it with the secateurs . If I can find them .

6 – Daffodils ! These are the first of my daffs to show the questing gratuity of their new growth . A sign of things to come as we descend ever quicker into the bleak of wintertime . I ’ve got about a XII pots like this stashed down the side of the business firm , they were inter in the borders last year and move out when they had done unfolding . I had intended to exhume the bulb and plant them out properly . Might still do that .

Have a fabulous gardening weekend , I have a list of things to do as long as my arm . Do n’t leave to watch back in as links get add together during the weekend .

I ’ll be back next weekend with another # SixOnSaturday .

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