{"id":856,"date":"2022-02-12T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=856"},"modified":"2022-02-12T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T08:11:28","slug":"six-on-saturday-12-2-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2022\/02\/12\/six-on-saturday-12-2-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 12-2-22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we approach mid-February, there are hints of new life everywhere. Not least in the fact that, as of this week, the sun has started to rise before 8am. I’ll celebrate that with a sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the coming of the light, invites me to start looking for some colours-of-love for this almost-Valentine #SixonSaturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first this week is all about love, the love of the tiny little iris that do their thing at this time of year. here’s a close-up of my current favourite, heart-lifting on even the grim days. How could anyone not love this stunning beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We’ll head to red now for a bit of seasonal wildlife. The robins are red-breasted, cute and sing so sweetly. In my garden there are 5 currently attempting to literally tear each other’s heart’s out to bag the best territory between the bird feeder and the pond. Here’s one of the little innocents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve tried hard to find pinks and reds amidst the newly emerging greens and here are a couple of veggy reds. This doesn’t look like a veg….in fact it’s a root, oca (also called New Zealand yam), I plant I’ve grown for a few years. These are a form of oxalis, producing fresh green leaves all summer (tangy in a salad), then one the foliage had died, the roots are dug for eating in winter. They taste like a lemony Jerusalem artichoke and are a luscious pink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having gone through the rain, wind, dark and (finally) hard frost is radicchio, a wonderfully hardy salad veg. This variety get redder as they get more frosted and taste grate wilted into a meat lasagne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An even deeper red is displayed by my favourite hellibore, still not quite flowering, sitting in a shady windy corner. I’m a little suspicious that some critter is nibbling the new flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ll end this week with the only appropriate flower for Valentine’s Day. This year, bush roses have never stopped flowering. I love that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s my #SixonSaturday this week. Stay safe and don’t forget to follow the crowd on twitter and via the web from links to the originator of #SixonSaturday, the Propagator<\/a> himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As we approach mid-February, there are hints of new life everywhere. Not least in the fact that, as of this week, the sun has started to rise before 8am. I’ll celebrate that with a sunrise. And the coming of the light, invites me to start looking for some colours-of-love for this almost-Valentine #SixonSaturday. My first … Continue reading Six on Saturday 12-2-22<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","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\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}