{"id":2972,"date":"2025-11-29T13:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:33:30","slug":"six-on-saturday-29-11-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/six-on-saturday-29-11-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 29-11-25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The end of November, the time of dark and drear.  I&#8217;m enjoying my last weekend in Canada, with crisp (and getting crisper) bright days dominating.  This week, I&#8217;m showing some plant-related scenes from Toronto&#8217;s city streets for my #SixOnSaturday.  First up,  the city authorities decorate the streets for Xmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2745\" height=\"3495\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/xmas-street.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2978\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a few trees still holding onto leaves on a breezy pier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2747\" height=\"3858\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pier.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2976\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s only a little plant-life on show here, and it seems to be coming from a building-top garden, quite near the spire of the church. I love the juxtaposition between old and new buildings in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2658\" height=\"3514\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/church.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2975\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the suburban streets, Japanese acer somehow make it through the harsh environment here. This one is still holding on with its lovely autumn colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2524\" height=\"3353\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/acer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2974\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another piece of planting by the city, set amidst the tall buildings. There&#8217;s so much to see as one wanders through the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2643\" height=\"3574\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/xmas-street-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2979\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, I&#8217;m celebrating so much blue sky. It&#8217;s very different from the typical colours in Scotland in November.  Here&#8217;s some wonderful blue sky, Almost the colour of the St. Andrews flag.  Happy St. Andrews Day tomorrow (30th Nov).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2358\" height=\"3389\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sky.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2977\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s me for this week and for this trip. Next weekend I&#8217;ll be back into my more familiar dark stormy world. have a great week looking at plants and gardens. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. Join in with our #SixOnSaturday thoughts and images. 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 end of November, the time of dark and drear. I&#8217;m enjoying my last weekend in Canada, with crisp (and getting crisper) bright days dominating. This week, I&#8217;m showing some plant-related scenes from Toronto&#8217;s city streets for my #SixOnSaturday. First up, the city authorities decorate the streets for Xmas. There are a few trees still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/six-on-saturday-29-11-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 29-11-25<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","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\/2972","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=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}