Six On Saturday: Lagging behind

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I’m not sure what I have been doing of late but clearly it is not gardening! The borders have gone wild. Self-seeders abound and there is still much to be cut back. I am not alone. Off The Edge Gardening is having a similar experience which has prompted this week’s confessions. Tidying up after Summer has to be done but in the meantime here are six from the garden this week.

One

The pity bench at the local Supermarket called to me. The echinacea was substantially reduced in price and all it needed was dead heading. Home it came and here it is ready to flower again.

Two

The Japanese anemones are enjoying their time. This group of ‘Honorine Joubert’ are happy enough but I have two other plants that have been in the garden for many years now and they do not shine. This is the year to accept that they are in the wrong place and get them relocated somewhere else.

Three

If geranium ‘Ann Folkard’ flowered earlier in the year I did not notice it. Here it is now, gamely making the best of of dryish, shady location.

Four

This mallow is a pretty flower but I made the mistake of putting the seed heads on the compost. Now I have a sprinkling of it in all corners of the garden.

Five

An unknown fuchsia that looked a gonna after the winter. I cut it to the ground and it has regrown happily.

Six

Another compost bin self-seeder. Astrantia major. This one is in the raspberry patch. I’ll move it soon. I think I am also going to have move the raspberries when the new beds are laid out. The measurements do not quite allow them to stay in place while work carries on around them.

Our host Jim, invites you to share his garden and all the links to SOS posts from around the world. Somehow I will try to fit a few hours in the garden this weekend. I hope you can too. Enjoy.

14 thoughts on “Six On Saturday: Lagging behind”

  1. Weeding is becoming madness at the moment it’s growing so much! You’re right. Every week I go back to the places where I passed the week before… Heat and humidity work well ( for weeds…)
    Your unknown fuchsia is really very pretty. Does it give you a large bush?

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  2. I am not a naturally tidy person but I am beginning to itch a little. I’ve got plants ready to go in but they will have to wait. I’ve just been out and collected some seed and dead-headed those I can reach and I feel much better about it all. Lovely fuchsia and the echinacea looks very interesting. Enjoy your week, its going to be a good one!

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  3. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the garden at this time of year. I’m often tempted just to pull things out, to clear a little bit of breathing space in the borders.

    The flowers of your Anemone ‘Honorine Joubert’ look absolutely pristine. The fuchsia is gorgeous too – I found one in the ground only this morning that I had cut back after winter, and thought it had died, but there it was – one little flower and a few leaves – it deserves another chance, especially after seeing yours.

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  5. Everything always seems overwhelming at this time of year. I have been pulling out some annuals even though there were still a few flowers left, but it just looked so untidy, and I am not a neat freak. My G. Anne Thomson which is related to yours I think, has been flowering for months! She’s as bad as Rozanne for wandering. I moved my only white Japanese anemone this year to the woodland border and only just seeing a few buds (it’s a small one – Wild Swan) and ‘Honorine Joubert’ is rather a beauty. I like the white ones more than my pale pink.

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  7. What mallow is that? The anemone is still rad. I remember it from last year. That cultivars seems to be the most popular. I should see if ours is blooming. It does not perform well here, and ours is not such a bright white. I believe that it should be lightly blushed, but it just looks faded.

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