{"id":3166,"date":"2026-03-21T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:11:04","slug":"six-on-saturday-21-3-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/six-on-saturday-21-3-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 21-3-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-c618bdcc-790d-474b-bf2f-9d02bc2a79b5\">Finally we have a spell of a few days of sunshine, and temperature up to 16 degC. Friday 20th was the equinox, what a turning point. Now those of us in the north will have longer days than you in the south. I&#8217;m ready.  And to top that, I&#8217;ve found lots of wonderful spring blooms for my #SixOnSaturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Narcissus are coming into their peak period now. I have several to show off this week.  First, is a slightly gentler version of the full-on basics daffodil, this one with a slightly slimmer trumpet and perhaps a paler yellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2744\" height=\"2456\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/daff1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3168\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The very first tulip of the season has just appeared. A rather nice dark pink. I won&#8217;t have many this year as I was away for a couple of months at the prime planting season in Oct\/Nov, so each bloom will have to be savoured. I like this one so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2606\" height=\"2418\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tulip.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3173\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My next narcissus is another delicate one, this having 4-5 tiny blooms on each stem. I was excited to see the first of these opening in the sunshine on friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2279\" height=\"1640\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/multibloom.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3171\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the main borders I nearly missed this beauty. Every year I marvel at the delicacy of the naked head fritillary, what a strange flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2075\" height=\"1921\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/frittilary.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3170\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another lovely narcissus, this one a much paler lemon, perhaps a little too frilly?  Says limoncello to me somehow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2754\" height=\"1676\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/daffs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3169\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last up, a local garden centre does a &#8216;primrose festival&#8217; every spring.  Is SO hard to come away without a car full. This year I was craving colour, so bought just one. WOW, look at that pink. And yet, also a delicate yellow with a tiny hint of dark red at the very centre.  This will be left to flourish in a pot, and be planted into the border for next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2934\" height=\"3097\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/primrose-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3172\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring really IS here now and needs to be soaked in fully while we have it. This will be a big gardening weekend for me. I hope you enjoyed the colour and promise that has finally arrived in the garden, for my #SixOnSaturday. 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>Finally we have a spell of a few days of sunshine, and temperature up to 16 degC. Friday 20th was the equinox, what a turning point. Now those of us in the north will have longer days than you in the south. I&#8217;m ready. And to top that, I&#8217;ve found lots of wonderful spring blooms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/six-on-saturday-21-3-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 21-3-26<\/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-3166","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\/3166","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=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}