Gardening
Saturday again already ? Six thing , going on in the garden , this Saturday . Could be anything , a proficient flower , an interesting plant , a gadfly , a disaster , a victory , a labor . Anything . Why not unite in ?
Here are my six .
1 – Nandina domestica . I ’ve had this bush , also known as sacred bamboo , for years . I ’m fairly certain that it just said “ Specimen Shrub ” on the label when I buy it , so I have been ignorant of its true identity until set straight very recently . It has been minding its own business , step by step get larger , but generally behave itself . I ’ve never prune it , which is a glad accident as it needs footling or no pruning . The leaves are a reconisable bamboo figure , and the shrub also bring out big panicle of white flowers followed by bright red berries . At this time of twelvemonth , both are visible , the Berry from last yr ’s prime alongside this yr ’s flowers .
2 – Potentilla ‘ milkweed butterfly ’s velvet ’ . I grow these from seed late last summertime . They spent the wintertime outside in 7 cm potbelly , then were potted on into 1 cubic decimeter pots and finally engraft out in the various borderline planting I ’ve been doing this year . They have grown on quite nicely and are now flower away . To be picky , the flowers are a little small , you have to get pretty close up to full apprize it . From further than a twosome of groundwork aside they are just trivial blobs of red / maroon . I wish the leafage too , fortunately , which is the normal 5 - folder frame associated with potentilla , also known as ‘ cinqefoil ’ for that reason .
3 – Echinacea . I do n’t recall planting or seed these and yet I have a bunch . I must have buy them as sparking plug then forgotten about them . Anyhow , they are flower away now , incidentally looking quite right with the few world ‘ rubenza ’ that hold out my mistreatment .
4 . Cornus alba – a shrubby cornel that I have for its hopeful red winter stalk colour . It ’s about 10 years honest-to-goodness , and I ’ve let it grow into a pocket-sized tree diagram . It had get somewhat unruly , plus the wintertime stem color was getting to the brown end of the spectrum . Early spring this twelvemonth I cut it decently back to the framework , a properly hard prune . I was a bit worried that I ’d finish it off , but it has come back with a vengeance . I should have plenty of lovely red stem this winter .
5 . Dwarf record hop – this gets cut back to the ground each winter , but grow back vigorously during April and May . It ’s job is to cover the N facing fence panel which it does perfectly . It gets a little over enthusiastic , growing through and around thing I did n’t need it to , but generally it does good duty . At about this meter of year it bug out to get pick , I ’m not indisputable by what , and it eventually looks a bit bedraggled , by which time the leafage commence to go anyway .
6 . rose wine ‘ Oh Wow ’ – this is a morsel of a cheat as I have n’t planted it out yet . I indulged in a number of retail therapy the other day , regularise two Modern climb blush wine . They get in today . Of the two , this purple stripy one is the more striking . The other is ‘ Golden Ladder ’ , a yellow / apricot rebel . I intend to implant along the fencing at the back of Border 2 . This should leave some reinforcement to the clematis and the two other roses , with the objective of conceal the fencing . Both flower from springtime to autumn . I should get some useful coverage this twelvemonth then I can think about what pruning / training handling they need next spring . I shall also be increasing stocks of these two madam by accept hardwood cuttings , end of November - ish , reduce my monetary value - per - unit - rose .
That ’s my six for this hebdomad . What are yours ? If you ’d like to bring together in , please add a commentary below with a connexion to your post , and perhaps a link back to this web sign in yours . Look frontward to seeing them !
I ’ll be back next week with another Six .
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