{"id":2984,"date":"2025-12-06T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2025-12-06T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T09:56:40","slug":"six-on-saturday-6-12-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/six-on-saturday-6-12-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 6-12-25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s SO nice to be home after almost 8 weeks away for work. I&#8217;d forgotten I had a garden that would need attending to very soon&#8230;.that has come as a wet and muddy shock. But hopefully this weekend will offer the odd hour or two. Better than the -4 degC daytime high and blizzard I left behind in Canada on Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this week&#8217;s #SixOnSaturday, I just ran round the garden before it got dark and collected a bit of garden love.  First, what could be more appropriate than a wonderful rose, still trying to bloom in the darkest month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1902\" height=\"1421\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/rose.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2990\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evergreen tree heather is looking bright and breezy with it&#8217;s lime green foliage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2802\" height=\"3606\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tree-heather.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2991\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love a bit of honesty, don&#8217;t we all!  Here in it&#8217;s plant form, its a wonderful structural addition to the garden in winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1940\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/honesty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2989\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the greenhouse, a few of the non-hardy geraniums are still in bloom. I&#8217;ll need to go through them all carefully to chop out any rot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2508\" height=\"2376\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/geranium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2987\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last, WOW, garden veggies, I&#8217;ve missed those.  It also looks like my partner, who has been here at home the whole time I was away, didn&#8217;t spot them either.   Brightly coloured chard will be eaten very soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2723\" height=\"2622\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/chard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2986\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s so great to be home and fall immediately back in love with my garden.  Now I just have to cope with darkening days for just a couple more weeks.  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>It&#8217;s SO nice to be home after almost 8 weeks away for work. I&#8217;d forgotten I had a garden that would need attending to very soon&#8230;.that has come as a wet and muddy shock. But hopefully this weekend will offer the odd hour or two. Better than the -4 degC daytime high and blizzard I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/six-on-saturday-6-12-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 6-12-25<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","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\/2984","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=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}