SixOnSaturday

Well , it ’s formally Spring and the garden is accelerate almost visibly . unhappily that also means the weeds are going nuts . Bindweed , my annual scourge , is poking up in all the usual places , and those great maple ! Everywhere . clock time for Six on Saturday . Clue is in the name – Six thing , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything – flowers , foliage , tools , a success , a failure , an untidy corner , a job to do , anything at all . get together in !

Here are mine for this week .

1 – Muscari , Grape Hyacinths . I constitute these years ago , along the edges of the wisteria border . They are certainly reliable , coming back in number every year . This dyad is among others growing up through the lavender . I confess I do n’t much like them , they have a trace of the haemorrhoids about them . Still , must n’t growl , not a dandy deal of flowering go on so one should revel what there is .

2 – Peony . Just a calendar week ago these were tightly pack red buds , barely showing on the surface of the land . These are new to me via grannysgarden . I gather they are a red flower - multifariousness , the name is lose to history . I still have one or two pieces to implant out , I must get around to that .

3 – Narcissus ‘ Peeping Jenny ’ . The second to flower of five daff varieties that I planted out back in the autumn . Apparently the flower petal fade to almost white . They are ok , I suppose , but miss the pzzazz of the jetfire mixture .

4 – Cornus ‘ midwinter fire ’ . A twain of weeks ago I cut this right back to the lower luggage compartment , about 8 inches from the ground . It ’s stil a evenhandedly young bush , this is twelvemonth 3 I reckon , so this is the first prune . I ’d care to have this re - produce from the base every year , hold open it fair tidy and also maximise the winter show . I ’m pleased to say it is already kicking out new growth , always a ease after a tough prune .

5 – Wallflower , ‘ Cloth of Gold ’ . Those little yellow buds from a couple of week ago have fulfilled their destiny .

6 – Tulip kauffmaniana . Here we go again . A very reliably perennial tulip and always first to bloom . For reasons best known to my past self , I planted them at either end of a plantation owner , with much grandiloquent daffodils sparsely plant between them . As showing go it is thus a bit lacking , but close on they look great .

Have a fabulous weekend in the garden , I surely shall be for as much of it as I can . Do n’t forget to check back in as more tie-in are supply during the twenty-four hour period .

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

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