{"id":3108,"date":"2026-02-14T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:54:44","slug":"six-on-saturday-14-2-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/six-on-saturday-14-2-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 14-2-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s day to all who celebrate.  There&#8217;s so little growing in the garden yet that it is sometimes hard to summon the love.  But something lovely did happen on Friday 13th, and I managed to get out and enjoy it. For the first time in about 25 days we had some sunshine and blue sky.  This week&#8217;s #SixOnSaturday shows that sunshine streaming onto some lovely sights in my garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are signs of the new season ahead. Here are some tiny lupin shoots, just starting their journey back to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1460\" height=\"951\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lupin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3112\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lit by the sun, those magnolia buds that always take forever to open are looking more and more promising&#8230;.properly furry this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2475\" height=\"1699\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/magnolia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3113\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the ground, I think this will be a rudbeckia or similar, with tall stems and lovely yellow daisy like flowers in mid-summer.  It&#8217;s on its way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3440\" height=\"1944\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rudbeckia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3116\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the old established border, pieris is flowering hard. The sunlight make details of the tiny  flowers much easier to pick out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2684\" height=\"2338\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pieris.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3115\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the ground for the last time. I think this is either delphinium, or monkshead, or is the latter a wild poisonous variety of the former?  In any case, here comes another 2026 plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1093\" height=\"883\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/monkshood.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3114\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last, just look at this late winter blue, blue blue sky, with hazelnut catkins blazing away in the sunshine. Here&#8217;s the love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2502\" height=\"2420\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hazel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3111\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. I do read them all, keep them coming. And do join in with #SixOnSaturday. 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>Happy Valentine&#8217;s day to all who celebrate. There&#8217;s so little growing in the garden yet that it is sometimes hard to summon the love. But something lovely did happen on Friday 13th, and I managed to get out and enjoy it. For the first time in about 25 days we had some sunshine and blue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/six-on-saturday-14-2-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 14-2-26<\/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-3108","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\/3108","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=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}