Sunshine and showers, foggy mornings, warm days and winds. We’ve been having a real mix of weather this week. Out in the garden plants are still flowering, with some putting in a second showing.
First photo goes to this lovely Laurentia which I proudly managed to photo in focus, this has powered through all summer. It is only a half hardy annual, which I would definitely grow again.
My second photo is a lovely ‘smiley’ Cosmos. Smiley because they make me smile rather than any particular variety.
My third photo is of a little cornflower which is still flowering. I do love this blue.
The soft leaved Mahona has more flowers now and the bumblebees are feeding from them.
Fifth photo is of the Hypericum Hidcote (St. John’s Wort) – well I think that’s what it is, it’s one of our inherited plants again, which I don’t know the name of. It had put on a great show until the drought got it and all the flowers seemed to drop overnight. But now it is flowering once more which is lovely to see.
Finally, Cupressus ‘Goldcrest Wilma’ a new plant for me and one I was able to choose to review, although how you can review a live plant quickly, I don’t know😉 I said it was a little damaged by delivery, but that it was perking up and would make a good house plant.
Thank you for joining me for this #SixOnSaturday post. I hope that you enjoyed it. Jim is now our host for this gardening meme and you can find his blog here where you will be able to catch up with links from all the other folks who take part.
Happy gardening
Rosie
Rosie Amber 
How lovely cosmos always puts a smile on my face! That mahonia is very interesting, not something we can grow here. ❤
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Cosmos is just smiley!
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That’s so nice that you still have some colorful flowers. I like the Mahona, it’s such a cheery color.
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Yellow is a good colour especially against the darker leaves.
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I’m astounded by the show my cosmos are still putting on. I had to remove all of the ones I planted in pots – they fared so badly in the heatwave but all the straggly seedlings I stuck in the borders have flourished. A lesson there for next year.
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I am so glad to hear that your Cosmos in the garden are thriving too – hardy little mites!
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So much pleasure and all for a pound or two….
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Cosmos are a smile-inducing plant. Nice to see a cornflower at this time of year too. My soft leaved Mahonia has just started flowering – alas they don’t seem to be fragrant like other varieties, but I much prefer the non-spikey leaves.
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I like the soft leaved version too, less prickly when I am barefoot in the garden! Yes, I was thrilled to see the cornflower still blooming.
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The cosmos is gorgeous, I’ve never heard of laurentia before I’ll have to look that one up, it’s very pretty.
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It was new to me too, it came on the front of a gardening magazine.
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Lovely little annuals, particularly love the colour of the Laurentia.
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Thank you, I was pleased to get a good photo to show it at its best.
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Conifers don’t get mentioned much these days so it’s nice to see one featured. I just struggle to see them used as house plants though, it feels wrong somehow, like polar bears in a zoo.
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I know just what you mean, this came up for review, but it may well end up out in my garden.
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Cosmos is wonderful isn’t it? And it keeps going so late into the year, I’d never be without it, even though I grumble about raising it from seed and potting it on.
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I must introduce some different colours of Cosmos, this one came from Sarah Raven in a ‘red collection’ two years ago. Raising from the collected seed was hit and miss, so I threw out the unused seed scattering it across the flower bed late Spring, and I let nature take over.
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Did you get many plants from direct sowing? I find if I direct sow, the slugs and snails consume every seedling, but equally raising in trays or modules is quite patchy and saved seed either doesn’t germinate at all or gives me muddy colours. It’s one of the few annuals I find I must buy seeds of every year. There’s a lovely orange form but it’s not a Cosmos bipinnatus, it’s a different Cosmos species, and I’ve never yet succeeded in germinating a single plant! I’ve never tried the chocolate one either, have you?
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My scattering of last year’s seed wasn’t exactly direct sowing it was pot luck, but some of them grew. This is the only cosmos I have tried so far.
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Sometimes pot luck is the best way!
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The blue of the cornflower is so special. Just beautiful.
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Thank you, Cornflowers are one of those ‘cottage garden’ types for me, although I suppose it is more a field flower. I haven’t grown them for a few years, but I am glad that I did this year.
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Lovely colourful Six-on-Saturday……..certainly not autumnal colours.
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Odd things are happening in my garden for sure!
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How lovely to have cornflowers so late in the season.
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Thank you, they were a surprise to see.
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Beautiful. I especially like the Mahona. This may sound weird but.. it looks like such a happy flower.
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I agree, yellow is a happy colour.
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Lol. True.
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Lovely blues. I haven’t had a Cornflower flower for ages now, lovely that yours is still going. I used to grow Laurentia in hanging baskets so lovely to see it again.
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Thank you, the Laurentia was new to me this year, but a good long-term flowering plant.
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