{"id":1595,"date":"2023-06-03T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2023-06-02T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T19:19:16","slug":"six-on-saturday-3-6-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/six-on-saturday-3-6-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 3-6-23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meteorological summer came in with a bit of a wimper with cold haar off the coast. Yet the last couple of days have burned it all back to glorious sunshine. Thus, it has to be red for a red-hot summer feeling for this weeks #SixOnSaturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost red, this slightly orange euphorbia is a hot shock in the border and also great as a cut flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Huge, hand-sized poppies always signal the start of summer in my garden. This year it is dry and windless, so upwards they push.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the driest spots, next to the hot south facing house wall, red valerian has found its happy place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first of the peony are out and having a go. There has been a long dry spell here, so I’m not sure how long they will last, but each one is a lushous expression of early summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My garden must be host to a very early variety of red hot poker. I seem them everywhere, all summer long, but this one is very much an early summer number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last this week is the joy of lupin when there has been a calm dry spell. Straight up, no wind rock, no rain damage. Gorgeous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How did we get to June so fast when the winter seemed to drag on forever? Ah well, here we are. I must remember to spend some time ambling the borders and focus a bit less on the beg bad (more on that at the end of the month).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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":"

Meteorological summer came in with a bit of a wimper with cold haar off the coast. Yet the last couple of days have burned it all back to glorious sunshine. Thus, it has to be red for a red-hot summer feeling for this weeks #SixOnSaturday Almost red, this slightly orange euphorbia is a hot shock … Continue reading Six on Saturday 3-6-23<\/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-1595","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\/1595","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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}