{"id":1972,"date":"2024-02-17T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2024-02-16T16:14:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:14:54","slug":"six-on-saturday-17-2-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/six-on-saturday-17-2-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 17-2-24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some unseasonal warmth has finally arrived, 10 deg C in the garden, up to 12 in the greenhouse. Even a day of warmth and low winds is making everything live a little faster. Here are a few garden delights that got thoughts of spring going this week for #SixOnSaturday. What isn&#8217;t quite over are the snowdrops, so I&#8217;ll start with a few of them. I planted just a few a decade ago in this border and they have naturalised nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2013\" height=\"1587\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/snowdrops-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1974\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My favourite hellebore has appeared already in #SixOnSaturday this season, but I just want to sit and look at it all day, what a joy.  Here you go, you can too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2237\" height=\"1455\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hellebore-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1975\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hazel catkins are in flower today, even the tiny red female flower is out, above the 4th-from left male flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1873\" height=\"1983\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/catkins.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1976\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Drumstick primulas will be while, their buds are amazing, they look like some alien egg is lurking under those early leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2102\" height=\"1881\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/drumstick.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1977\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some friends gave me a sorbia sorbifolia a few years ago.  They have huge ones at their house by the coast. 20 miles inland, I think we&#8217;re close to being a bit too cold. This one is alive and kicking so far though, fabulous dual-coloured early foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1861\" height=\"1305\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sorbia-sorbifolia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1978\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, with today&#8217;s sun the croci spread their petals wide. The first bees of the year were out enjoying their nectar. I&#8217;m rather pleased I caught this one &#8216;bathing&#8217; in nectar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1667\" height=\"932\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/crocus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1979\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you enjoyed my &#8216;still wintery yet dreaming of spring&#8217; picks for #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>Some unseasonal warmth has finally arrived, 10 deg C in the garden, up to 12 in the greenhouse. Even a day of warmth and low winds is making everything live a little faster. Here are a few garden delights that got thoughts of spring going this week for #SixOnSaturday. What isn&#8217;t quite over are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/six-on-saturday-17-2-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 17-2-24<\/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-1972","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\/1972","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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}