{"id":1901,"date":"2024-01-06T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2024-01-05T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:55:14","slug":"six-on-saturday-6-1-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/six-on-saturday-6-1-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 6-1-24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A New Year, with enough rain in the first week to fill January!  Luckily, there were a few bright times for a nip out into the garden.  I had a good look around to find what&#8217;s bringing garden joy as the year begins.  Here are my favourites for #SixOnSaturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My gardening year starts in the first week of January with a ritual sowing of the first chilli seeds. You can see them being sown in the greenhouse, but they will come into a base-heated propagator in the warm house, before graduating to a warm windowsill for many weeks to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2134\" height=\"2203\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/seeds.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1903\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I would not have bet that the first decent flower I saw this year was a primrose, but here are 3 shivering little blooms in a sheltered corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2459\" height=\"1664\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/primrose.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1904\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of my flower beds will need to be cut back very soon, rather than waiting for their usual spring haircut.  Seemed like a good time to enjoy the last of the fennel seed heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2756\" height=\"1805\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/fennel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1905\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the last few years i have come to love hardy geranium. Even in the gloom of winter the plants are stealing themselves for the year ahead.  Bring on spring!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2600\" height=\"1808\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/geranium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1906\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back up towards the sky, hazel catkins are budding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2159\" height=\"1348\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/catkins.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1907\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last but not least,  no flowers yet, despite the mild wet weather, but there is promise in a little clump of snowdrops, they are on their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2376\" height=\"1687\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/snowdrops.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1909\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s my #SixOnSaturday for this week. Who knows what the climate situation will bring us this year?  Whatever it is, I hope you don&#8217;t experience too many disruptions to personal circumstances.  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 the former birdsite, for those who must: @JamesLStephens. And I&#8217;m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Year, with enough rain in the first week to fill January! Luckily, there were a few bright times for a nip out into the garden. I had a good look around to find what&#8217;s bringing garden joy as the year begins. 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