{"id":1837,"date":"2023-11-25T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2023-11-24T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T19:40:45","slug":"six-on-saturday-25-11-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2023\/11\/25\/six-on-saturday-25-11-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 25-11-23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanksgiving for some, a crazy shopping weekend for others, and for the rest of us, just another dark dreary end-of-autumn weekend. So I went out to find some garden joy, and thus here are my #SixOnSaturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d start with an autumn favourite. A few stems of sedum have defied the wind and rain and are still standing proud, though this weekends frosts could well be the end for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2892\" height=\"1885\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sedum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1839\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the texture of the spiky, yet soft, foliage and stems of borage. There are still a few shy blooms creeping into flower too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3003\" height=\"1737\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/borage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1841\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bang! The very last of the cotinus leaves are bursting with joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2945\" height=\"1848\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cotinus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1842\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A little more demure, a lovely coloured geranium is doing its best to keep entertaining us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2113\" height=\"1698\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/geranium-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1843\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Autumn is a great time too for noticing that hardy fuschia CAN make it through the Scottish seasons&#8230;.often these plants die to the ground in winter but can sprout back from the roots to give lovely colour now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2137\" height=\"2269\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/fuschia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1844\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And last,  I managed a flip round the garden before the frost hit, to collect some flowers and herbs for an autumn vase of loveliness. I am particularly enjoying the look of the parsley flowers here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2150\" height=\"3081\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vase.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1845\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There goes my surprisingly colourful #SixOnSaturday for this week.  Join the sixes on Mastodon or other instances in the Fediverse via #SixOnSaturday, 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&#8217;s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https:\/\/gardenruminations.co.uk\/. Also on twitter @JamesLStephens. And I&#8217;m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving for some, a crazy shopping weekend for others, and for the rest of us, just another dark dreary end-of-autumn weekend. So I went out to find some garden joy, and thus here are my #SixOnSaturday. I thought I&#8217;d start with an autumn favourite. A few stems of sedum have defied the wind and rain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2023\/11\/25\/six-on-saturday-25-11-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 25-11-23<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1837","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\/1837","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=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}