{"id":1288,"date":"2022-11-19T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2022-11-18T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:18:49","slug":"six-on-saturday-19-11-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/six-on-saturday-19-11-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 19-11-22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: Many of you have found me as @julie3dharris on Twitter. I’m not sure I can face Musk-world now, even if the company survives, so you’ll find me more and more on Mastodon @julie3dharris@mastondon.scot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a normal November, the area I live in gets around 66mm of rain. We’ve had over 80mm here in the last 48 hours. The garden is rather blasted, the street awash. I’m very lucky I live on steep hill, many down in the valley are in trouble. What can I do for #SixOnSaturday? Cheer myself and everyone else up with some flowers. These WERE flowering this week in the garden, I didn’t dare look in the last couple of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First up: there little that more cheerful than a wonderful marigold (though check out my sixth this week). Last year, these overwintered. Still looking good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wonder how long my roses will keep going for. This first lot are tiny little pink ones that do flower well into winter if there’s not too much frost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t know the name of this big blousy bright pink rose either. I suspect there’s not much left of this lovely bloom, this was how it looked on Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A self-seeder is giving some joy. Feverfew, thought to be good to use flowers and leaves to make a tea if you have a fever. The tea tastes pleasant, a bit like camomile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Possibly my ‘best value’ family of plants for flowering on and on and on….one or two teeny weeny geranium flowers left (<2cm across). just look at that fine detail of pink stripes in the petals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And for my sixth little joy this week, another blast of colour. Fabulous nasturtium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hope you enjoyed my #SixonSaturday. Stay safe, take care out there, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on twitter. I THINK we can also get the sixes going on Masterdon. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https:\/\/gardenruminations.co.uk\/. Also on twitter @JamesLStephens. And I’m now on masterdon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: Many of you have found me as @julie3dharris on Twitter. I’m not sure I can face Musk-world now, even if the company survives, so you’ll find me more and more on Mastodon @julie3dharris@mastondon.scot In a normal November, the area I live in gets around 66mm of rain. We’ve had over 80mm here in the … Continue reading Six on Saturday 19-11-22<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}