{"id":1521,"date":"2023-04-15T07:06:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T07:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2023-04-15T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T07:06:16","slug":"six-on-saturday-15-4-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/six-on-saturday-15-4-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 15-4-23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite our Scottish weather turning up the ‘wet and wild’, every time I look around there seems to be a new flower blooming. I do love spring. Let’s celebrate #SixOnSaturday with some blooms. First up, finally my large camellia in the shaded north-facing area has got her act together. Well worth the wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Magnolia stellata has also just begun to raise a few shy flowerheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Does anyone know why old cherry trees send out blossom on tiny branches coming out from their old thick stems? I don’t know, but mine is up to its usual tricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the other end of the garden, my first rhododendron has started flowering while I had my back turned. How did I miss this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To end, I went mad on potted tulips last year. This year I couldn’t resist a few bright red ones again. On the right are some new purple ‘species tulip’ — I believe this is one of the species that grows wild in western Turkey…subtle, much smaller, yet gorgeous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bang! ….for the finale, a new colour for me this year, a really ‘pinky pink’ pot full of tall elegant tulips…hope the rain and wind don’t destroy them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stay safe, take care out there, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on Mastodon. Join the sixes on Mastodon via #SixOnSaturday (other instances in the Fediverse are available), but we need a few more folk to toot on the topic: come join us. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite our Scottish weather turning up the ‘wet and wild’, every time I look around there seems to be a new flower blooming. I do love spring. Let’s celebrate #SixOnSaturday with some blooms. First up, finally my large camellia in the shaded north-facing area has got her act together. Well worth the wait. Magnolia stellata … Continue reading Six on Saturday 15-4-23<\/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-1521","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\/1521","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=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}