{"id":1343,"date":"2022-12-24T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:39:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T09:39:26","slug":"six-on-saturday-24-12-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2022\/12\/24\/six-on-saturday-24-12-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 24-12-22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s a seasonal #SixOnSaturday for me this week. Mostly from the garden in the last week: the frost has gone now. It was beautiful while it lasted, but made it tricky t get out to work, or shop, etc etc. And we’ve just past the solstice…..let the nights draw out now..yippee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First up, who wouldn’t want to show off the iconic house-plant of the season. Here’s my poinsettia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next the one plant that battles on, despite the cold, is the rose. Here’s one trying its best to bloom through the frost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One or two very hardy veg are hanging on too. This is the most seasonal-looking. A radicchio, which if it isn’t too frosted, will end up in a Boxing Day lasagne (adds a lovely bitter note).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m not sure if it’s really ethical to allow garden birds to come too close, but a demanding little robin now has me trained to reach into the seed feeder for her each time I walk past. See that determined look?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buds are a sign of the coming light, now that we’re past the winter solstice. Catkins are one of the first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just one more for this seasonally themed six, what else could it be but my home-made seasonal door wreath?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hope you enjoyed my seasonal #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 online, our organiser is Jim at https:\/\/gardenruminations.co.uk\/. Also on twitter @JamesLStephens. And I’m now mostly on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a seasonal #SixOnSaturday for me this week. Mostly from the garden in the last week: the frost has gone now. It was beautiful while it lasted, but made it tricky t get out to work, or shop, etc etc. And we’ve just past the solstice…..let the nights draw out now..yippee! First up, who wouldn’t … Continue reading Six on Saturday 24-12-22<\/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-1343","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\/1343","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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}