Six On Saturday – The Return Of Colour 4🌸5🌸24

It has been a long dry summer with a long dryish autumn to follow. But it has been quite nice garden enjoying weather, with weeks of still sunny weather. With cool mornings and evenings. A pleasant by-product of not much rain has been these sunny days, so I might as well enjoy them while they last. I have had to keep the water up to the garden plants. However, now they are benefiting from it, it is reaching their roots and are staying moist for longer. Marking the return of mass-flowering in my garden, now the cooler weather has set in.

This has brought a nice colour to the deciduous tree foliage for autumn and it has not been blown off by the wind (like they sometimes do), win-win! Autumn is start of the autumn colour in plants such as Salvias. I have a collection of dry climate Salvia varieties that enjoy my garden and they tend to start flowering at this time of year enmasse.

Salvia microphylla So Cool Blue is a cloud of purple blue every year! This year I have been re-establishing a couch lawn in the front garden by divisions and I have about 40 little pieces growing away! Mind you, I have had to water them daily but I enjoyed this Zen time appreciating my garden.

Salvia microphylla So Cool Pink, I planted this one this year to be a companion plant to the purple one each year. The Salvia microphyllas are very hardy in my garden and survive in it year after year.

A favourite of mine is this super drought hardy Salvia chamadryoides. Its grey leaves giving an indication of how tough these plants are, in the drier part of the garden. I like to divide this up and plant for its intense blue flowers. they don’t look that spectacular in this photo, but are more striking in real-life.

Glorious pink Nerine I saved from the back of the garden bed last year and planted them in the front of the bed instead. A better decision all round! Here she is glowing in the evening sun. I have a few colours of Nerine this dark pink, a pastel pink and this old vintage Cerise red that comes up in random places, all around the garden. Mainly because I planted them there!

The roses have started their autumn flush. Here we have Hybrid Musk Cornelia,  Iceberg,  Orangerie and China Mutabilis with it’s curious unfurling petal style.

The velvety flowers of Salvia mexicanus,  an autumn treat. Plus the purple flowers of Salvia Christine Yeo, a very tough little customer! She flowers on very little water.

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That’s all from me.

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Happy Gardening – Sarah 🌸

I was also my Birthday this week and my children made this amazing bouquet fashioned out of toilet paper! With some homemade cards.

 

Plus I made a lemon cake with the first lemon from our new garden! 🍋