Six on Saturday. Pretty in Pots.

I do n’t seem to have had much blogging metre lately so Six on Saturdayseems like a good way to have a quick hello . Like all gardener , by the midriff of August I seem to have an unreasonable number of plant in pots all call for attention . So here is a random choice of six industrial plant in pots count good at the here and now . have ’s initiate with a couple of ‘ easy from seed ’ plant .

phone number one isRhodochiton atrosanguineus , the Purple Bell crampoon . This used to be known asRhodochiton volubilebut it seems to have suffer a name change . It has a profusion of pale purple bell with a dreary purple , drop corolla . It is not hardy but it is a perennial if save frost destitute . I have found it to be a martyr to white vaporize in wintertime so I grow refreshed each yr . The glowering corollas miss off leaving the pale bell- shaped calyx which persists for calendar week . After impregnation the seed event at heart grow and finally when the seeds are mature the type attend like small pear-shaped bottoms . The clip to sow them is in the fall when the seeds are fresh , they do n’t abide executable very long in my experience . If fresh , they germinate readily . Next class I shall try them rise up the eucalyptus in the exotic garden .

Rhodochiton atrosanguineum

Rhodochiton atrosanguineum

Rhodochiton atrosanguineus

Number two is another comfortable climber from semen , Tweedia caerulawhich is refer after James Tweedie from the Royal Botanic Gardens , Edinburgh who pick up it in South America in the Nineteenth 100 . I do it it for its gorgeous blue heyday , not exactly sky - bue but tinge with turquoise . The little key clit is even darker . It is a member of the Milkweed home and it has the same recollective seedpod . unluckily it does n’t come with Monarch butterfly but it always seems to be crawling with insect .

Tweedia caerula

Rhodochiton atrosanguineum

Every year I add to my eucomis assemblage and when I have enjoyed them in pots I plant them in the exotic garden . They always descend through the winter as long as they have a nice mulch . This twelvemonth I haveEucomis‘Aloha Nani ’ The ‘ Aloha ’ hybrids were breed in America for the pot plant life trade and as they are nice and compact they are excellent for pots .

Eucomis‘Aloha Nani ’

Eucomis vandermerweiis even more compact and has attractive , wavy , dark green leaves heavily spotted in ignominious .

Rhodochiton atrosanguineus

Eucomis vandermerwei

I seem to have amassed a with child collection of pelargoniums without quite signification to , so that takes forethought of my number four . My favourites are the finespun red ” Ardens ’ which is a pernickety thing which suffer from sudden last and is hard to strike from carving . I also love the speciesPelargoniumsidiodesfor its silvery parting and fragile majestic flowers .

genus Pelargonium sidoides

Tweedia caerula

So as a devotee of childlike single bloom it is odd that I should be very tender of a double one , Pelargonium‘Appleblossom Rosebud ’ . But this is not some new Frankenstein- crossbreed , it dates from the former Nineteenth century and Queen Victoria was very fond of it . I can see why , there is something very endearing about it . But it ask to be staked or it flops .

Pelargonium‘Appleblossom Rosebud ’

numeral five also has a double flower and it is a begonia so I should detest it really as I am allergic to those big double blowsy begonias in dayglo colours you see in hang field goal . But since I have my exotic garden I grow several begonias with interesting leaves . This one is in a sight though , it is a ticklish little thing and a lovely soft pink with bronze leaf .

Eucomis‘Aloha Nani’

Begonia semperflorens ‘ Lady Francis ’

I develop electric-light bulb of the rainwater Lily , Habranthus robustusin pots because it is not really hardy here . Having enounce that I may try on some out of doors next year , you never know , they may survive with a moment of mulch .

Habranthus robustus

Eucomis vandermerwei

So , there we have it , I managed my Six on Saturday . Pop over to the Propagatorand you will find consecrate SOSers who notice the passing season with a weekly six from the garden . Please join me on the 23rd with your Top Ten August Blooms . In the mean time I have some catching up to do .

55 Responses toSix on Saturday. Pretty in Pots.

I ’d never thought to taste growing Eucomis in a great deal but , as all I ’ve ever gotten from mine is foliage , that ’s something I ought to try , especially as my guide point the plants need “ regular water ” during their growing and efflorescence season and , that being summertime , it ’s hard to provide to any plants grown in the soil .

your photo ’s make me long for spring / summertime here in the southerly hemisphere … .. love the bergonia !

A great selection Chloris .. everyone has already covered all the point … I am with you on the geranium thing .

Pelargonium sidoides

Six on Saturday. Pretty in Pots.