{"id":3198,"date":"2026-04-11T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:08:59","slug":"six-on-saturday-11-4-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/six-on-saturday-11-4-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 11-4-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-04dc7fa7-de6b-4a3e-b766-7c462e919fc1\">Quite some weather this week. We started with Storm Dave, which was very wet, very windy, but didn&#8217;t do too much damage.  Then a few more frost nights, then a very disappointing 12 degC in what promised to be a mini-heatwave (apparently it was 25 degC in parts of England).  But I guess that IS why the Scottish spring is so beautiful, it is long, cool and slow.  The blossoms unfold one after another, the spring bulbs fight the wind.  Here&#8217;s some of that flavour for this week&#8217;s  #SixOnSaturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WOW&#8230;.my all time favourite flower of the year. I wish you could hear the bees buzzing round the blossoms on my wonderful Japanese cherry. Magnificent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1349\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cherry-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3201\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the wind and rain, daffodils of various varieties are bobbing along in the sunshine, and giving me plenty of pickings for vases in the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1727\" height=\"1292\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/daffs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3202\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favourite narcissi is Thalia, there is something so pure and beautiful about the pure white flowers with slim, yet sturdy, trumpets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2676\" height=\"2528\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thalia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3205\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the name of this multi-headed little gem, but it has really wonderful scent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2369\" height=\"2366\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/narcissus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3204\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This year I planted mixtures of different tulips in pots. I must say I&#8217;m very pleased with this yellow and red mix, with different structures. When the sun comes out, so to the flowers for a blast of spring warmth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2398\" height=\"2553\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tulips.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3206\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And last this week, by 2nd-best-ever plant in the garden is also in full bloom. A huge magnolia near my legs beds. An ancient form of tree I believe, yet a wonderful icon of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2637\" height=\"1914\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/magnolia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3203\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That was my joy-of-spring best this week. I loved collecting the images and taking a slow stroll round the cool garden. Hope you liked my selection. 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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite some weather this week. We started with Storm Dave, which was very wet, very windy, but didn&#8217;t do too much damage. Then a few more frost nights, then a very disappointing 12 degC in what promised to be a mini-heatwave (apparently it was 25 degC in parts of England). But I guess that IS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/six-on-saturday-11-4-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 11-4-26<\/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-3198","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\/3198","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=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3209,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}