{"id":3133,"date":"2026-02-28T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:56:33","slug":"six-on-saturday-28-2-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/six-on-saturday-28-2-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 28-2-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-42123383-1d2c-4c4b-ba52-f2a15794c90d\">Wow, how things can change in a day. On Friday this week it was sunny and I sat in a sheltered spot by the pond with a cup of tea, listening to the birds and watching frogs gather in the pond.  It does feel like spring is on its way. This week&#8217;s #SixOnSaturday has some springy things beginning to appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-c552c3e2-52e1-4789-9099-200aed969608\">The viburnum has almost come to the end of it&#8217;s season.  Now on sunny mornings it is covered in honey bees. Here&#8217;s one having a feast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2332\" height=\"1552\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/viburnum_bee.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3140\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Down low in the borders, spring flowers are just starting. This is one of the very first Scilla to pop up its little head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1645\" height=\"1261\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/scilla.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3139\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My various pink, white and whitish-pink hellebores have just woken up, but are holding their heads rather low still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1746\" height=\"1872\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hellebore1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3136\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The bees really were forming a queue this morning, as soon as the sun hit the tubs of crocus bulbs, and the flowers opened, in went bees to collect all the wonderful nectar and pollen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2916\" height=\"2466\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/crocus_bee.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3135\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring iris have just started to appear too. These do best for me in pots, somehow they must rot away or get eaten in the open ground. I love the rich purple colour that this one is displaying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3153\" height=\"2291\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/iris.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3138\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, will this be the last time you see my favourite winter flowering plant this year?  Perhaps.  The dark pink hellebore looked absolutely magnificent in the sunshine on Friday morning. A wonderful sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2765\" height=\"2746\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hellebore2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3137\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That turned out to be a very colourful and hopeful array of blooms with which to end February. Bring on Spring, I&#8217;m so ready for it this year.  And so are the bees it seems.<\/p>\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>Wow, how things can change in a day. On Friday this week it was sunny and I sat in a sheltered spot by the pond with a cup of tea, listening to the birds and watching frogs gather in the pond. It does feel like spring is on its way. This week&#8217;s #SixOnSaturday has some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/six-on-saturday-28-2-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 28-2-26<\/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-3133","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\/3133","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=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}