It was my plan to do a Six on Saturday blog post today. After a couple of warm days that fooled us, and plant life, that Spring was about to arrive, it is snowing today and bitterly cold – a shock to us all.
My little tree peony, survived earlier frosts but now it has a flower-bud, so this morning I lovingly wrapped it up in fleece to protect it from the snow and next couple of frosty nights that have been forecasted.
Not to be deterred by the outside chill, this afternoon I took some photos for my Six. Slightly battered by this morning’s snow, the trough of tete-a-tete give a cheerful two fingers up to the cold and bring light and color to the garden.
These little anemones closed their petals tightly today, but are good to see coming back year after year. Sadly, this is one pot of many I won’t be taking with me when I move. I have friends lined up to take orphan plants, so I know they will go to good homes and be cared for.
Life is full of compromises and my new home does not have a garden – eeeek!!! It does have south facing french doors which open out onto a patio area, hence the need to limit the number of containers I can take with me. All is not lost though because my youngest daughter and husband have just moved into a house about a mile away that has a large overgrown garden. They already have at least half a dozen of my pots full of spring bulbs. I am so lucky that they have granted me the privilege of being allowed to work in their garden, so I will still be able to blog about the re-birth of a much ignored but clearly once loved garden. I diverse and more about the move, once I have a date which fingers crossed will be very soon.
Back to ‘Six on Saturday’. This Sedum is from a broken sprig I literally shoved into the soil during last summer. I love the way raindrops sit on the leaves. I will put a few cuttings in a pot for daughter’s garden.
Walking around the garden this afternoon, not thinking I would find too much for my Six, I was pleasantly surprised and now writing this post I am having to decide what to add and what to ignore. It’s mid-March and I couldn’t bring myself not to include these Wallflowers, it doesn’t have a label but looking back at my old posts, I think this one is ‘winter sorbet’.
My final Six photo is one of the Peony bursting through the soil. I can never ignore these when photographing plants in the garden – I adore the color of the fresh shoots and how they start off looking like little lipsticks and then tiny hands with lots of fingers. Beautiful!
I have always enjoyed reading other ‘Six on Saturday’ blog posts and this is my first contribution there will be more. Thank you The Propagator for hosting this meme and Horti Hugh and ThomasHort for your Six on Saturday posts which spurred me into joining in.