Six on Saturday – An Oath By a Tap and Autumn Favourites. 13🌸5🌸23

Another mild and lovely week here, with some decidedly cool mornings that necessitated a heater, socks, and jumpers to be used, almost frosty! But fantabulous gardening weather! I have been still busy transplanting my little rooted plants, plus making a border around the back garden of pot marigolds. I enjoy the watering in the new plants in the gently warm sunny days. Plus I have started in earnest to transplant clumps of my couch grass Wintergreen to my front garden, starting the replacement lawn. In previous years, I have concentrated on the grass, on my new side rose garden area and they are now growing nicely.

I have another Australian-ism for you. I had to have a plumber come out to fix one of the garden taps this week. It was my driveway and it had sprung a leek. He fixed this tap which is on one of the outer areas of the garden but nonetheless useful for watering the natives that I plant up the hill.

Once he had straightened and fixed the tap and the ‘lean’ (it was on a lean since we arrived here for over 20 years). I was excited that it was fixed and ‘straightened’ and I said it was in an odd spot, but I liked to water my natives with it, and he replied “Bloody Oath!”. I have not heard this phrase in a while, if at all in real life (maybe I mix in the wrong circles!). I was quite delighted by his response, and I knew you would be delighted with it too! I it is annunciated, so that the words run into each other as though it is one word and almost growled out in response to an exiting thought ! I don’t know exactly what ‘oath’ it referred too, but it was certainly exciting!

My favourite rose-bud pelargoium which is a plumy burgundy colour. Heidesommer rose, the single white rose, is a hardy Kordes rose. It is new to my garden, but I am most impressed by her beautiful scent and strong growth and the little roses bloom in clusters. Queen Adelaide rose. As I have been renovating all of my gardens, in the last 3 years, I have found some seeds that come up miraculously after many years. The green plant here is a Sweet Mignonette plant that has fragrant leaves, I don’t remember when I last planted them, but it was over 10 years ago!

Salvia Waverley, Staff Pelargonium, and new plant acquisition a white version of the Salvia mexicanus plant, that I have been after for a few years.

My favourite Ivy Leafed climbing pelargonium with blush pink flowers, roses flowering this week and my new grass transplant to the front garden!

A treat at this time of year a bright cerise red Nerines pop out of nowhere in the autumn gardenscape. This variety is a very hardy one given to me by a lovely elderly neighbour, it is much hardier than a pink variety I bought. Red roses Fire and Ice and oldie Francis Dubreuil. A lovely ruby coloured hybrid diascia I could not resist from the local hardware store, (it was only $2.50 cheaper than a coffee!) with parsley and lamb’s ear.

Not to be outshone by the roses, the hardy pelargoniums keep on flowering month after month, with their bright happy blooms. Some are in pots and some are growing in the garden in the sheltered garden beds near the house.

Pussycats keeping me company in the garden and a lovely purple calbrichoa in a hanging basket. Autumn foliage on a Chinese elm against the blue sky. The lovely purple Salvia mexicanus that I have reproduced and planted lots of little plants around the garden.

That’s all from me.🌸 See more beautiful Six on Saturday gardens from around the world, on the Six on the Saturday tag, our host is Jim you can find his blog here .
Thanks for visiting. 🌸 Happy Gardening – Sarah 🌸