{"id":1937,"date":"2024-01-27T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2024-01-26T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:00:31","slug":"six-on-saturday-27-1-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/six-on-saturday-27-1-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 27-1-24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last weekend in January has come, bringing the light with it. Even when I&#8217;m driven in from the garden by cold winds and squally rain, the sun is still up until 4.30pm now&#8230;&#8230;feels better.  This week, I&#8217;ve managed to go mostly green for my #SixOnSaturday, and include a couple of proper winter flowers. It was fun to collect some garden colour, even though quite a bit of it comes from the greenhouse this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll start with the very best of the season, witch hazel is now in full bloom, a strange but lovely shrub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2198\" height=\"1371\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/witch-hazel-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1940\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now for the greens. As I strode in from the drive towards the greenhouse, some wonderful moss on one of the old apple trees caught my eye, looking almost lurid in the low sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2160\" height=\"1927\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/moss.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1941\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And then into the greenhouse.  A small lemon tree avoiding the frosts does look a little lacking in nutrients, yet the yellow veining is a compelling pattern. Are the tiny white spots just pores? i think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2135\" height=\"2357\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lemon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1942\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer geranium usually make it through by spending 3 months in the greenhouse too. This one is enjoying a sunny January morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1924\" height=\"2236\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/geranium-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1944\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The last greenhouse green is a little experiment. A California poppy did really well for me in a pot (they don&#8217;t self-seed well, I fear its too cold and wet over winter), so it has the treat of a greenhouse winter. So far, so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2137\" height=\"2332\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/cal-poppy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1945\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last, but not at all least, back in the borders I&#8217;ve managed to clear away last years dead stuff, to find snow drops emerging and bursting into bloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2135\" height=\"1719\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/snowdrops-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1946\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you enjoyed my mostly green, hopeful #SixOnSaturday this week. The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six!  Go on, its a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. 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\/. And I&#8217;m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last weekend in January has come, bringing the light with it. Even when I&#8217;m driven in from the garden by cold winds and squally rain, the sun is still up until 4.30pm now&#8230;&#8230;feels better. This week, I&#8217;ve managed to go mostly green for my #SixOnSaturday, and include a couple of proper winter flowers. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/six-on-saturday-27-1-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 27-1-24<\/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-1937","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\/1937","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=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}