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What a difference a week makes. The first snow of the winter forms a sort of floppy theme for my #SixOnSaturday this week. The frost came hard and fast, followed by a gentle sprinkling of snow and then some cool sunshine. My first this week is an end-of-season image: the last apply on the bramley tree. Look closely and you can see peck-marks from the fieldfare that have shown up for their seasonal munchings.
Top of the proper flops must be oca. I grow these for the occasional leafy addition to salad, the leaves are sour and lemony. Also the roots, they look like a bright jerusalem artichoke, but taste brighter, and don’t give the gut grief. The roots will be harvested on a non-frosty day when the foliage has fully died back to the ground.
I noticed a few funghi still having a go in the lawn, I think they look beautiful with sprinkling of snow.
What a difference a week makes. last week nasturtiums were flowering, today they are well on the way to scrumpling up to nothing.
And yet, a feisty foxglove appears to defy the frost and snow and just grow on through. I wonder how it will weather the winter?
Last, but not least, sedum are still standing tall, colourful, and look elegant and even seasonal with a wee dusting of frost.
I hope you enjoyed my #SixonSaturday. Stay safe, take care out there, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on Mastodon. We are starting to get the sixes going on Mastodon (other instances in the Fediverse are available), but we need a few more folk to toot on the topic: come join us. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. Also on twitter @JamesLStephens. And I’m now mostly on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot.
There’s still plenty to see in our gardens, we just have to look harder. The sedum is pretty.
I was looking at Incredible Vegetables a few weeks back and considering Oca, and a bunch of other stuff. I don’t like to have too many things that I eat but Sue doesn’t, which is what I suspect would happen.
The sedum is still lovely and bright, much redder than any I have. It’s the second time this week I’ve come across Oca, a plant I didn’t know about before. It sounds interesting and certainly useful to have in the garden.