Hello and welcome to this weeks Six on Saturday.
Autumn seems to be gathering pace and the nights are drawing with speed. The garden seems to have ground to a halt a bit this week and for some reason there is not a lot flowering in the garden so I have included a couple of photo’s when I popped into the Royal Botanical Gardens for lunch yesterday.
Thankfully I am now on holiday for a week after a hectic past couple of months so I can start concentrating on the garden more. Projects this week include a general tidy up and putting some trellis up for my climbing rose and a Montana Clematis which variety I won’t know until it flowers for the first time.
Here is my six
1. Knipholia and Rudbekia
As I said I popped into the RBG Edinburgh yesterday. They have a massive herbaceous border there and whilst most of it has flowers of course there are still splashes of colour there. This combination catches the eye to say the least. Rudbekias always seem to add a splash this time year and this year seems to be a good year for them.
2. Colchicum Speciosum
There was some wonderful splashes of Autumn Crocuses there. They may last a short time but they pack a punch. They are a member of a different family than true crocuses which is always slightly confusing.
3. Aeonium Marine L’apostlle
Native to Southern France this is showing off some stunning colours at the moment. All my Aeoniums are performing week but I have noticed thats something has been nibbling a couple of them. Yesterday I found some small snails on my Zwartkop which I dispatched quickly and efficiently..
4. Crassula Sarmenosta
I bought this from Surreal Succulents at the start of the year and it said in the description that it was fast growing and it was not wrong. From one stem the plant has passed my expectations and as you can see I have taken a number of cuttings from it and of course as per most Succulents they are easy to propagate. The leaves are a wonderful cream and green colour with a serrated edge. I will bring this plant into the house over the winter for a splash of colour.
5. New Succulent Coldframe
My collection of succulents has grown massively this year. Unfortunately I have got a small garden and no room at the moment for a greenhouse so I am using cold-frames. I used one cold frame to great effect last year so I have bought 3 more. I will insulate the bottom with polystyrene I have got from work and will use insulate fleece on the top of the plants if need be.
6. Fuchsias Dollar Princess
This Fuchsias has just started flowering. I bought it a few weeks ago in one of those 4 for £12 promotions at my garden centre and this was the last one I bought to make up the 4. I have got to say that perhaps this should have been my first choice as the flowers are so striking. Also reading up on it some websites say that it is supposedly one of the only cold hardy double Fuchsias.
That is my six.
I am off to the garden centre to buy the trellis and start work on the garden.
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Until next week goodbye.
Sedums, Dahlias and Hayfever 
What a pretty carpet of rudbeckias! This garden looks lovely
Otherwise, I never have snails on aeoniums and yet there are! Weird, they don’t like mine (so much the better!)
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It is Fred. I am really lucky to have it on the doorstep of my head office….
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Lovely sedums and beautiful fuchsia! Enjoy your week in the garden. Our local forecast is good, I hope yours is too. Our son is working at Gleneagles at the Solheim Cup competition this week and the weather looks appalling!
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It’s flipping freezing today! Typical first day of any holiday I take….
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Oh dear! I hope it improves.
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Your Aeonium is a delight. I intended buying a couple of new ones this year, but never got around to it. Next year I shall. Strange that the snails are eaten them, I have found holes on my Zwartkop and there are millions of tiny baby snails in the garden this year! I need to go out and put some organic pellets down. I always thought my succulents were safe! Seems not 😦
Enjoy your week off.
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Yea they are tiny little things. Really difficult see. Roll on the colder weather.
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Lovely aeonium. I’m afraid I’ve finally given up with mine as I had nowhere to over winter it and it was damaged by frost even as it sat under the verandah. I’ve replaced it with a rose.
Rudbeckias have been centre stage for a few weeks and they certainly put on a show. What a wonderful collection of succulents you have.
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Oh that is a shame Jane. Sorry to hear about the Aeonium. .
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I’ve never been to Edinburgh but we’re think of spending a few days there next year. I want to visit the Royal Botanical Gardens. Great fuchsia.
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Great shot of the kniphofia and rudbeckia – as you say they work well together. Your succulent cold frame looks good in its own right.
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The succulents look very happy in their new home. I’m not a great Kniphofia fan but the Rudbeckia looks amazing planted en masse
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Goodness, I am sorry to be so behind schedule – like eight days! I may need to skip ahead a week, just to see what I missed yesterday.
Crassula sarmenosta is one I am unfamiliar with. It looks like a succulent version of euonymus.
No pictures of you Clematis montana? I was not aware that there were cultivars of it. I just know it by the straight species name. It is one of the few clematis that does well for us.
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No problem Tony.
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