{"id":1583,"date":"2023-05-27T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2023-05-26T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T11:27:02","slug":"six-on-saturday-27-5-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/six-on-saturday-27-5-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 27-5-23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At this time of year, i always wish I’d booked some time off to spend more time in the garden, rather than for going away…doesn’t seem to matter how much time you have in may, it is never enough! As spring surges on, here are some pure white (almost) blooms for this week’s #SixOnSaturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A calming bloom from one of my rowan trees will start us off this week. Look lovely, though have an odd, almost ‘too sweet’ perfume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Insects are abounding now, a bee is enjoying the nectar provided by an elegant swathe of Solomon’s seal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Along with the pesky Spanish Bluebells come some variants in pure white. It would be nice to have more of these, they glow and glisten in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strawberry flowers are a little more interesting when you move close. This one was, as a some sort of hover fly bee mimic was sitting nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Into the veg garden, and broad beans are looking very promising. These do have a really pretty flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My last offering this week is the wonderful floatiness of cow parsley. Its grows all over my garden, and right now the drifts it makes a simply a delight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stay safe, take care out there, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on various instances of the Fediverse. Join the sixes on Mastodon via #SixOnSaturday, 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":"

At this time of year, i always wish I’d booked some time off to spend more time in the garden, rather than for going away…doesn’t seem to matter how much time you have in may, it is never enough! As spring surges on, here are some pure white (almost) blooms for this week’s #SixOnSaturday. A … Continue reading Six on Saturday 27-5-23<\/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-1583","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\/1583","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=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}