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( I mean 10 - 06 … )
Time for this calendar week ’s Six on Saturday . Each week I am showcasing six things die on in my garden . Why not join in ?
1 . Bindweed . Is it noetic to form such a visceral disapproval for a plant ? It comes through from next door ’s garden and I do battle with it every twelvemonth . My weapon of choice is a handfork , I attempt to get the right way under it and dig the whole piece up , following it along until I get it all . One of the more bothersome garden noises is that piffling “ pop ” when a root break and you do it you have n’t got it all . If countenance open , this thug will quickly overpower a typical garden plant , and will finally do for a large shrub too . It is nigh - on indestructible as it re - grows from the midget speck of root . In my acerb experience the only solution is ceaseless vigilence , jab the pesterer up every time I see it poking up out of the soil . Oh , never put it on the compost passel .
2 . Lychnis coronaria . I have both the ashen and magenta varieties . They are a fecund flowerer , happy in teetotal conditions and self - seed prolifically – one source head ( of which there are many ) will raise dozens of seeds . The seeds come true , although apparently it is possible to get a pink / white cross which is quite pretty . Never happened to me . They just need dead - head oftentimes to draw out the flowering which goes on for months . They are hardy but short - last , getting a bite yesteryear - it after two or three years . They can be divided in the leap , discarding the old core and plant out the young growth on the outside . I commonly have so many seedlings in the boundary line I just dig up and discard the former plant .
3 . Hosta , variety unknown . It ’s clear variegated . I wish hostas and have admired the pictures of other ’s much more impressive collections . They inevitably cease up getting munched a bit ( a lot ) by slugs or snail but funnily enough this year this one is untasted . I think it may have been because of the very juiceless weather condition in the first place in the springtime – not tributary precondition for Mr Slug .
4 . Linaria purpurea . I featured this works just a couple of weeks ago in a old Six on Saturday . I was n’t trusted of the variety but it has now flowered . I think it ’s your basic linaria purpurea . I gather it ’s very prolific so will in all likelihood be weeding the matter out for the next constantly .
5 . Hachonechloa macra ‘ aureola ’ . I ’ve want one of these for a while , I picked up one at a plant fair the other calendar week . It ’s quite lowly at the present moment , I guess it was a division of a large plant , but it will surely get bigger as it establishes . I ’ve got it at the edge of a shady mete , it might get annoyingly sprawly over the lawn in future but I can always move it .
6 . Sambucus nigra . The hard winds in the last hebdomad or so have not bet too much mayhem in my garden , but for some rationality the black elder has succumbed . A couple of the stems , all this year ’s growing , have bent and basically snap in the wind . It ’s looking a bit worsened for habiliment as a outcome . In fact , the eternal sleep of the shrub is looking a little drunk .
savour your weekend !
I ’ll be back for another Six next Saturday .
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