{"id":2009,"date":"2024-03-09T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2024-03-07T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:46:52","slug":"six-on-saturday-9-3-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/six-on-saturday-9-3-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 9-3-24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The promise of spring, and a goodbye to some winter stalwarts, this is what my #SixOnSaturday is all about this week. Along with a white-grey-green theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First up, it is the last chance to enjoy snowdrops. After some years, my garden has a lovely spread, and even in the shady corners they are beginning to wilt away a little now. See you next year, you tiny peices of winter hope and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1826\" height=\"1161\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/snowdrops.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2010\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I got carried away this winter with a large crocus order, and am very glad I did. The blooms last for weeks and come in a gorgeous range of colours. I&#8217;ve only just noticed that these white ones have a few thin little bands of lilac that help set off the bright orange centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2788\" height=\"2074\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/crocus-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2011\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Late winter and early spring colour is offered by a few large viburnum bushes, and they are doing a grand job of feeding local honey bees, who are out and collecting nector on summy days now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1771\" height=\"990\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/viburnum_bee.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2012\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring clematis have got themselves together and are sprouty lots of shoots now. In close up, these have a furry look and feel, pleasing on a sunny morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1556\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/clematis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2013\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Magnolia stellatar is a little way off yet, but follows right on with the furry feel.  This small tree looks like it will have a huge number of flowers this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1855\" height=\"1297\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/magnolia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2014\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, one of the best early spring flowering shrubs is pieris, also offering a nectar fest, the tiny flowers stand out nicely against a bright blue spring sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1969\" height=\"1675\" src=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pieris.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2015\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you enjoyed my celebration of spring 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>The promise of spring, and a goodbye to some winter stalwarts, this is what my #SixOnSaturday is all about this week. Along with a white-grey-green theme. First up, it is the last chance to enjoy snowdrops. After some years, my garden has a lovely spread, and even in the shady corners they are beginning to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/six-on-saturday-9-3-24\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 9-3-24<\/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-2009","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\/2009","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=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}