SoS 9/7/22
Where has this last week gone!
I don’t know about you, but mine’s been spent caring for my canine garden-companion who had surgery for bladder stones this week. Being a Jack Russell, keeping him quietly resting requires total concentration. I’m nothing if not a gaol-warden now and trust me, the prescribed opioids etc have not worked at keeping him sedentary. Sigh!
Grabbing pics has been literally on the run and they’re rather an odd bunch of images which I confess I’ve cheated with and added two that are on my wishlist of future purchases, should I ever win the lottery.
But to start at the beginning. This is my first ever potting up of what? Are they Aeoniums? I don’t know anything about them. They were given to me in this pot and I’m potting them on into terracotta. How do I look after them?
This is our Viburnum Plicatum F. Tomentosum ‘Mariesii which is having a short hiccup, flowering in the middle of winter but I dare say it’s as hopeful as I am that spring is coming.
My most favourite rose of all time, the vibrantly robust Madame Alfred Carriere. We pruned it this hard last year and it flourished so I’ve done the same this year. I want to move it as it shadows my veggie garden too much. Terrified of moving it but we have just under 8 weeks till spring so must do it any minute!
I love terracotta pots in a garden, especially when they age and become heavily covered in mosses and lichens. This pot is a year old and is beginning to oblige. It’s got a clematis planted in it which is a transplant. More on that if it lives to tell the story.
This is the first of my ring-in pics. An Arras greenhouse/summer house for sale this week at one of our most upmarket and favourite garden accoutrement shops – the Jardin Room at Oatlands, Tasmania. I love the summerhouse 11/10!!! At approximately $A8000+, I’m waiting to win the lottery or else will ask a welder my husband has much respect for, how much he would charge to make one similar.
And finally, I have this little pot on my wish list as well. There are so many metal and wire floral sculptures that Aimee Pradel creates that I love. I’m tempted by her auriculas but something about a pot of bright yellow-trumpeted daffs on the kitchen bench all year round, really appeals. I have an eye on her stunning wreaths as well. Crikey, I need to win the lottery!
That’s it from me for today. As usual, Jon The Propagator hosts Six on Saturday and please pop over to this link to have your weekly international horticultural tour.
Cheers!
That is a gorgeous greenhouse…the second one this week (the other one was on Jon’s post).
Yes, I saw the one Jon featured. It’s pure lust! I admit it!
Your plants at the top are Echevera, a family of succulents but they are not frost hardy so have to be brought inside for the winter here, but spend the summer outside. My Viburnum plicatum Maresii flowers at strange times too, usually in the sutumn just before losing its leaves.
Tough as old boots here, Pauline. Thank you for identifying it. They sit on my friend’s deck and down the steps into the garden (a garden to die for) in hail, frost, wind, rain and blazing summer sun! Hope they do as well for me. The viburnum flower is just pure hope for me…
very pretty metal flower in its terracotta pot. $A8000! it’s expensive ! I made the conversion into euros and here we have somewhat identical greenhouses/summerhouses at half the price…
I think Arras garden furniture might come from France, Fred. Not sure. Yes, the price has sent part of my hair white which is why we will ask our local welder what he thinks.
That greenhouse would look stunning in any garden. I wonder how they get the table and chairs to grow??
Haha! Isn’t it sweet? One can get it fitted with shelves as per a normal glasshouse if one wants, but I see a version of this one, more summerhouse, up in our orchard, partly shielded by the willow in summer. I get quite overcome with the vision…
Dreams are wonderful things, aren’t they?
Your pots are lovely, as is your wish list. I’d love to know how you get a clematis to survive in a pot!
Thanks, Jayne. Clematis can survive in pots as long as the tub is a deep one. This one is deep – up to my thigh. And it may be that the clematis (which is being transferred from the city to the coastal garden) may not survive. My experience with various clematis (I have 11) is that they’re pretty robust. Some downright thuggish.