A late posting this week due to unexpected 48 hour lurgy having struck. Feeling better now but the task of planing out the main crop potatoes does not sound that appealing. I think they can wait another week. I’m hoping to have the energy for planting out the sweet peas, dead heading the daffs and sowing a few annuals. If the thought of gardening is exhausting you too go to The Propagator’s blog for armchair gardening or the inspiration to get out there for real. Here’s my six for the week.
One
The first of the irises have opened. These were divisions from a neighbour’s garden at the old house, brought along in pots when we moved and now in their third summer in this garden. They are putting on a better show than last year so perhaps they truly feel at home now. Just in time for another division?
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Six on Saturday is a good thing to get involved with! Thanks go to Sedums, dahlias and hayfever for sharing their enjoyment of the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens some time back. It went onto the list of places to visit and this week was ticked off. It’s a fantastic place with a series very impressive glass houses. Thanks also go to the Rivendell Garden blog for regularly sharing alpine plants in his sixes. Having spotted armeria maritima last week what chance did I have when I saw three pots of the stuff for sale in the plant shop. Purchase made. The alpine section at the Botanic Gardens is also very much worth a visit. In fact I may have to do a separate write up – I must be feeling better.
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Four
This interesting collection is the result of sowing 45 seeds of euphorbia oblongata last summer. Only four germinated and very late in the season. I had really given up on them but somehow they struggled on so I potted them up to overwinter them in the greenhouse. They have all made very different progress. One fatality. I’m keeping them in the greenhouse for a few more weeks before they go outside but their place in the garden has been lost. They were intended as the underplanting for the Darcy Bussell roses. I’ll scout around for a new corner for them. Looking at them here I am tempted to pinch out the tops.
Five
The first of the lettuce seedlings are ready to be moved on. I will plant some in the greenhouse and some outside. These were sown at the end of February if I remember rightly.
Six
I found this growing on the compost heap and with a gardener’s optimism planted it up. I am hoping it is sweet woodruff. Any thoughts?
Well that’s my lot for this week. Back with a bit more vim next week. Those potatoes must be planted by then.
n20gardener 
I didn’t know Woodruff but after googled I think it looks like it.
Congratulations for your salads, I sowed a second batch last wednesday.
About edamame beans, what is the taste? like broad beans?
Las thing, the armeria : I was watching mine this afternoon and it’s full of flowers! Better year than last year apparently.
Good recovery, take care and see( read) you next Saturday
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I need to get sowing again! Edamame beans are like broad beans, I only know them from Japanese food dishes. I don’t know if they will come with jackets like BBs. We’ll see🙂
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Oh glad you enjoyed RBGE! The alpines are special. I am working in Edinburgh all week. So will be having my packed lunches in there. My HO is 200 metres away.
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Your HO is in a lovely part of Edinburgh. We had cold but sunny weather and had a beautiful time at RBGE. Thank you so much for the recommendation. Enjoy your week there.
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It looks like Sweet Woodruff. I had some from my dad’s garden many years ago and it’s very fond of wandering
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It seems to have wandered from the front garden to the very back of the back garden!! But I like it so it’s not a problem.
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Summer hols this year are in the Edinburgh area, shall pop in to the rbge. Glad you are feeling better.
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I am even later than you are at getting to all of these.
Is that the same Armeria maritima that is native here? Ours might be known by the variety ‘californica’, although I really do not know.
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It’s very popular as a coastal plant here.
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Do you know where it came from? It grows on the cliffs above the beaches here, although I think that what we grew in the garden years ago was a selected garden variety, hence ‘Californica’.
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RHS site says the plant range is Europe to Siberia, Americas, but doesn’t give a place of origin. Definitely viewed as a toughly good for windy coastal sites.
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Well, that does not narrow it down much. It is hard to imagine the same plant that lives here would be happy in Siberia.
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