Six on Saturday. Weird and Wonderful.

It ’s Saturday again already . The Lord’s Day has been shine all week , and the work here has been feverishly intensive . There is only a little window of time at the end of March in which I can convince myself that this year will be different . I will keep on top of it all ; I will in conclusion bully all the weed into submission and inseminate and twinge out several thousand germ . But time out must be taken to pick Six on Saturday . So here extend .

Weird Fungus .

I planted my Charlotte white potato yesterday in one of my arouse beds . I had put composition board over it for the wintertime to discourage the chickweed . develop through the composition board I found these strange fungus kingdom , I had to expect them up . They have peculiar heads which depend as if they are don knitted sweater . There were loads of them and I find that they are extremely prized morel mushroom cloud , what a waste , they depend too far gone to eat now . But then patently there are lookee - likee - morel which are poisonous and get vertigo , puking and even death . So I would be too scared to try them . The only garden mushroom-shaped cloud I have been brave enough to eat were puffballs which come up now and then in my woodland garden . They are delicious if eat young , before the maggots get them , sliced and fried with garlic . But I ’ll give these a girl . They do n’t look like food .

Morel Mushrooms?

Morel Mushrooms ?

Insectivorous Plants .

Whilst we are on the eldritch stem . I have a few insectivorous plants which I bought in an wild instant at a Plant Heritage Spring Plant Sale whilst I was waiting for my friend go to the water closet . The pitcher plants have seeded but are not looking their best quite yet , but the butterworts are coming on well .

Morel Mushrooms?

The flower belong toPinguiculiaand the fuzzy leave to aDrosera capensis . As long as you water them with rain water these insectivorous plants are really easy . I say they are a bit cruel but quite fascinating . And weird .

Peonies .

So let ’s move fleetly on to the marvellous . My beautifulPaeonia masculahas prissy plump buds but the exciting affair is the two little seedling which I have found nearby .

Paeonia mascula

I have found that these pinkish peony interbreed with the yellowPaeonia mlokosewitschii , ‘ Molly the Witch ’ and in a late garden I had seedling in shades of little finger yellow and yellowy pink . So now I keep Molly well away from this glum pink one .

Talking about peony seedlings , they do n’t come out the first year after sow because they are busy putting down root . I just come across these two Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree peony seedlings which I had forgotten about , they have been knocking about the garden for a couplet of year and lost their labels . Still , they will be welcome , there ’s no such thing as an ugly peony .

Paeonia mascula

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree peony seedling

Growing from Seed .

I do n’t suppose that I am the only one who gets bear away and consecrate far too many seeds . And then there are all the ace I collected . It ’s all very well sowing them , but then they postulate twinge out . I feel like the old woman who live in a horseshoe and had so many children she did n’t hump what to do . For instance I sow seeds of some of my dahlias . I was surprised the 2nd one , ‘ Mambo ’ produced cum , it is normally only the single ones .

And now I have 100 seedlings . I do n’t really need 100 fresh dahlias but they do n’t number true from seed so how can I throw any aside without realize what the flush seem like ?

And I seem to have about 50 agapanthus seedlings . It is all part of this silly business organization of sowing seed , not because you need young plant life , but because you’re able to . You have the come , you have the compost , you have pots and water . I ca n’t quite remember what Kant ’s Categorical Imperatives are but Chloris ’s first Categorical Imperative is seeds must be collected and sown . I suppose I ’m back to the weird now . So allow ’s find something wonderful .

Narcissus .

Tree peony seedlings

Narcissus keep on coming into flower . Suffolk Plant Heritage has a interior collection of Engleheart Narcissus . So far they have 34 cultivars . The Reverend Engleheart was hold in 1851 and like all the clergy of his eld he had time on his hand and he spent his time breeding narcissus . One of them ‘ Will Scarlet ’ won an RHS 1st Class Certificate in 1897 and three bulb sell for £ 100 . I have just two Engleheart Naricissus but they are so dainty and delicate that I shall probably add to my appeal next year . Maybe I will get ‘ Will Scarlet ’ and these days we do n’t have to ante up £ 100 .

Narcissus‘White Lady ’

Narcissus‘Beersheba ’

Dahlia ‘Night Butterfly’

Even aged than the Engleheart daffodils I have ‘ Mrs Langtry ’ which dates back to before 1838 . The peak look like footling wind generator .

Narcissus‘Mrs . Langtry ’

In a pot , miniatureNarcissus‘Tiny Bubbles ’ is delighting me at the moment , it is the first time I have grown it . It comes from America and it is delightfully pretty and also fragrant .

Dahlia ‘Mambo’

Narcissus ‘ flyspeck bubble ’

Cambridge Botanical Garden .

We went to Cambridge Botanical Garden a few days ago . I was count forward to learn the Jade Vine which blooms in March in the glasshouse but there was no sign of it , perhaps it died . But this amazingPetrea volubismade up for it .

Dahlia ‘Karma Fuschiana’

Petrea volubis

I got quite excited seeing these Passion blossom because when I was in Madeira last November I buy a compass of different Passion fruits in the market and ate them but I saved some seed . So now I have about 20Passifloraseedlings . OK . We are back to the Wyrd now . They wo n’t even be hardy .

But outside amongst all the different bloom trees I found one which is of course hardy and has pass right to the top of my need inclination . It is not a cherry at all , it isStaphyleaholocarpa‘Rosea ’

Dahlia ‘Honka Red’

Staphylea holocarpa‘Rosea ’

But adorable as this staphylea is it is not as beautiful as my magnolias which are fabulous this yr . But they deserve a post of their own and anyway , I ’ve done my six , I continue reckoning this workweek . But yet again I forgot to dress photo all in a dustup at the top of this post like everyone else does . I ’ll sample to think next week but there is no meter today I have more seeds to seed .

Thanks to The Propagatorfor hosting this meme , Six on Saturday . Do have a look , more and more multitude are link in and it is fun to see what people are enjoying each Saturday .

Dahlia ‘Waltzing Mathilda’

47 Responses toSix on Saturday. Weird and Wonderful.

Ah , a fellow over - purchasing - cloud seeder ! I planned on few than last twelvemonth , ended up with probably double!Wise choice to forgo eating that fungus ! Too many people do choke mistaking one for another . I do n’t care mushrooms at all , but if I did I ’d keep to the grocery memory ’s offerings !

I laughed when you say you had too many source . I blend in through my boxful yesterday and gave loads aside … I just have n’t the room anymore in my belittled garden . Your staphy is awing .

I ’d have steered clear of the morel - like mushroom too . If I had your achiever growing from seed , I ’d expect I ’d be in the same fix but perhaps I ’d open an extemporary nursery religious service for friend and neighbors . At the very least , this would chip in to the diversity of industrial plant in my neighborhood . I ’m enamored with the Petrea volubilis and now captive on hunt down it down . The consequence as to where to plant it can hold back until I see it .

How exciting to find those morel ! I love your remark about dahlia from cum and needing to see what they all look like . I ’ve always grown them from tuburs but this year I have half a dozen from seed too but 100 ? – fill the earth with dahlia I say !

Hi Chloris ,

In you post on the 23rd May you ended by mentioning “ if you live in the UK and would care to strain some seeds of the tree peonies I wrote about in my last post please permit me know later in the season when they are right ” .

Narcissus‘White Lady’

I do n’t live in the UK , I dwell on the west coast of Ireland . I would love to have a go at growing the Tree Peonies .

I can station on a stereotype , addressed envelope if that would serve ?

I really enjoy your notice .

Narcissus‘Beersheba’

Stephen Kelly

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