{"id":3299,"date":"2026-06-13T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:34:23","slug":"six-on-saturday-13-6-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/six-on-saturday-13-6-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 13-6-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-4680afe9-6d82-466b-90fb-afc005733fa3\">June! Supposed to be Summer! We are now having wind, rain, thunder storms and cool weather&#8230;.what we usually get in early May. Yet every week there&#8217;s so much to see, more flowers, lush jungly growth.  The garden is loving all this rain.  This week, to bring cheer against the rain, I bring you pink and red blooms. Here is my #SixOnSaturday for this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting with pink, always a joy to behold in early summer, this is an example of the HUGE poppies that appear every year. Almost dinner plate sized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2980\" height=\"2701\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poppy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3307\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve gone potty with potted dahlia again this year, it is becoming an obsession.  I could not resist some bargain patio-dahlias, and they have already delivered. the first to open, these small pink flowers are looking good on the garden bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2217\" height=\"1759\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dhalia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3303\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dianthus are still coming. Here is a different colour from the one I showed a couple of weeks ago. This one has a small pink centre, then wonderful rich red outer petals.  joyful, and will make great flowers for the vase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2890\" height=\"2191\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dianthus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3304\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pure red, and always on my courtyard summer windowsill, here are the summer geraniums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2428\" height=\"2319\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/geranium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3305\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A newish plant, still in a pot. This is a type of chrysanthemum I think. Wonderful rich colour, and a lovely contrasting yellow centre. The bees and hoverflies like that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2314\" height=\"2240\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chrysanthamum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3302\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To finish&#8230;&#8230;WOW&#8230;..the first lily out this year is a rich red one. I&#8217;m still battling lily beetle, but there are fewer this year so flowers look better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2436\" height=\"1648\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lily.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3306\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope you enjoyed my summery six as much as I enjoyed finding them. Do join in with your own 6 things from a garden. 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>June! Supposed to be Summer! We are now having wind, rain, thunder storms and cool weather&#8230;.what we usually get in early May. Yet every week there&#8217;s so much to see, more flowers, lush jungly growth. The garden is loving all this rain. This week, to bring cheer against the rain, I bring you pink and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/six-on-saturday-13-6-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 13-6-26<\/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-3299","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\/3299","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=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}