Six on Saturday 9th Feb
Every day since Monday the temperature has risen above 6C. There was some rain, but fairly light and mostly at night with just over a centimeter over the week. Very windy last night and today, although it has calmed somewhat as I write this.
This is my first Six on Saturday this year, so here goes with six things though I had to resort to including a house plant as there is not much going on.
1 Snowdrops
I have a few clumps of snowdrops at various stages of development. These are the most advanced and are pretty much open now.
2 Cyclamen
This Cyclamen coum was bought last year and it is doing very well. It almost looks like there are two there.
3 Winter aconite
I bought two pots of Eranthis hyemalis this year, as the ones from last year don't seem to have survived. I haven't seen too many of these around, so maybe they don't grow that well, or perhaps they are out of fashion.
I'm hoping that they survive and form a decent sized drift.
4 Hellebore
I can't say I like the Hellebores much. The white variety is the best in my opinion with flowers that can be seen well from a distance.
This is again a replacement for the one that doesn't appear to have survived from last year. If this one doesn't survive, then that is it, no more!
5 Amaryllis
I got this just before Christmas for indoors and the flowers have opened this week. It is more lovely than I was expecting.
6 Salvia cutting
I relented and decided to overwinter the 'Wendy's wish' again via a cutting. I took this quite late and it took longer than usual for it to root in water. This was potted up last weekend. It had a hitchhiker - a little caterpillar.
That's it for another week, to see more gardens in six bite sized portions head on over to the Propagator blog.
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