Gardening
Blimey Charlie , September already . Autumn according to some . Myself , I ’m in disaffirmation . Leaves fall ? Pah . La la la not heed . Still summer in my garden . Time for another Six on Saturday . Six things , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything . A tool , a project , a daunting job , a nifty plant , interesting leaf , anything at all . Why not link in ?
Here are my Six .
1 . Houttuynia ? Who - knows - ya , more alike . I buy a few of these years ago . I could not for the life of me remember what they were called but tell apart a very similar plant in my local garden centre last weekend . I ca n’t be 100 % sure but in the absence of a salutary answer I ’m going with houttuynia . Each twelvemonth they down up , bringing a spot of downcast colour to a shady molding , each year a few more of them . They do n’t get more than 20 cm high and I ’ve never seen them blossom , but I like the variation in leafage colour .
2 . Dwarf record hop – 2nd morsel of the Six on Saturday cherry tree for this plant . It has fully covered a fencing panel since April , that ’s it ’s main Book of Job in life . The flower cone are forming now . I read a few teeny divisions earlier in the twelvemonth . Through a combination of neglectfulness and the trial and tribulation of propagating , I lost all but one of them which I found clinging to life in a corner of the greenhouse . If it survives the winter I will plant it on the fenceline in Border 2 .
3 . genus Rhus typhina , or stags horn sumac . This tree / shrub is actually in my neighbour ’s garden , and therefore what the designers would call “ borrow landscape ” . It is just start out to reverse , this autumn ( belated summer ! ) leaf colour is it ’s only redeem feature in my humble opinion . It eventualy lead quite a vivid red / orange color before dropping it ’s leaf . The bare branches , have a fuzzy covering like a deer ’s antler . Hence the usual name , I ideate . I usually chop back the branches overhanging my fence as it ’s quite a size now and turns that corner into an even more shady surface area . I forgot to do it this year , it ’s got quite unruly .
4 . Osteospurmum volt-ampere unk . I bought this 5 or 6 workweek ago for 50p from the pathos workbench in B&Q. It was a dried up mountain with no flowers . I gave it a trim , fed and water it and now it ’s a good wait plant with some peak . Should be honest next year .
5 . Weigela var unk . This bush is in many respects a poor example of the breed . It is in the front garden , mostly deluge by the neighbouring spirea bush , which has got very enceinte . Like its counterpart in the back garden , this weigela has not been cut back well so it has get very leggy . I mention it now because it is bloom like mad . I ’m sure it bloom earlier in the year , so I ’m storm it ’s going again .
6 . Irrigation system . Over the years I ’ve built up an irrigation system using hozelock parts or compatible systems . It ’s 13 mm pipage for the main H2O delivery then thinner 6 mm tobacco pipe for the drippers . It ’s a scrap of a Heath Robinson arrangement but it works . I am running two timer at the bit , one for the front garden and one for the pots on the patio . The other two taps on this 4 - way manifold are connect to hoses . The green one goes to a hosepipe Scottish reel that I use for the chief garden and the yellow one is connected via a long distance of hosepipe to the glasshouse tap . I have grand plans to set up a more robust manifold system next twelvemonth , with the intent of giving me more retail store and timer , and therefore more controller and reporting . I specially want to put a misting unit in the glasshouse . We shall see .
I ’ll be back next week with another Six .
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