It’s the last Saturday in October. We change our clocks tonight too, so we will get a little longer daylight in the mornings for just a short time. Plus, I shall have an extra hour in bed tomorrow morning!🛏
What is flowering inside and out in my house and garden this week?
I was disappointed with the Busy Lizzies this year, they didn’t enjoy the heat, some bolted, some died; it wasn’t their best show. So I took some cuttings a few weeks ago which I hope to keep going as stock for next summer’s pots. These have taken off and are showing me what they could have been like in a moderate English summer.
Here is an update on my Poinsettias which I showed you a few weeks ago as they began their 12/12 dark and light training to turn the leaves red. This is the progress after about 6 weeks.
Third photo is of my spiky leaved Mahonia which is now coming into flower.
Next photo shows my Christmas Flowering Cactus which looks ready to flower even though we have about 7 weeks until the festive weekend.
The fifth photo is from the Japanese Anemone which I recently bought. It is just going over, but hopefully by next year it will have settled in.
Final photo is of a yellow Shasta Daisy, also a recent purchase.
I’m hoping to get to the Longstock water gardens for a belated visit this afternoon. If I’m lucky I might get a few useful photos for next week’s post.
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 
I like the Christmas cactus. I have several of them. They have a tendency to bloom early so they are more like Thanksgiving cactus.
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Yes, that would fit better, they will certainly be out for November.
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When I lived in the UK, I had such a pretty Christmas Cactus at my desk at work. Sadly I had to leave it behind when I moved back to the US. Yours is gorgeous. We don’t change our clocks here in Arizona, and it’s nice not to have to go through that change twice a year.
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Is that just an Arizona choice? Or did I read that the US were no longer changing any clocks?
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It’s interesting following the progress of the Poinsettia. I’d no idea the red leaves were achieved this way until reading it in your blog a few weeks ago. The fragrance from the Mahonia will be lovely.
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It is an interesting plant life. I want to try growing one of the Poinsettia with different coloured leaves next.
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I do love Christmas cacti and we have a few here as well, but they flower out of season as well. Lovely plants and I look forward to your next pics.
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Thank you Olga.
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Oh your busy lizzies are lovely now that they are happy! What a strange summer we had. And your Poinsettia is coming along really nicely! Good for you! We have had so much rain lately, that I have not been out in my garden much at all. Thankfully, though, there are still things growing! 🙂
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After the dry summer, I’m all for rain.
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Lovely selection, Rosie. I had no luck with bizzie lizzies either. The poinsettia is looking great though.
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Oh good to know it wasn’t just me.
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Your Christmas Flowering Cactus could of course be a Thanksgiving Cactus! Mine is in bud too. The Thanksgiving cactus has pointy edges; the Christmas cactus has smooth, round edges.
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I didn’t know there were different ones, do you mean the flower is pointy or the leaves?
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The leaves. Easter cactus have rounder ones 😊
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I usually put my cactus in a dark spot at the beginning of November to get those Christmas blooms.
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Good idea.
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Your Busy Lizzies are on top form now, and lovely to have such a late show as a bonus.
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I hope that I can keep them going all winter inside.
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That poinsettia is a beautiful, deep red. You have clearly given it the right treatment. .
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Thank you, a few more weeks for more of the leaves to go red.
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Enjoy your visit to the Water Gardens and I hope you find some interesting things to share with us. The Japanese Anemone looks wonderfully ruffled – so pretty.
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Thank you.
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I’m impressed with your poinsettia progress, it’s looking really good. Lovely pic of the anemone, too.
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Thanks, as long as I remember to put them in the dark and get them out again it is an easy process.
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How interesting.. I did not know that about poinsettias.
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I’ve been doing this each year now with some cuttings and the parent plant – it was a Covid lockdown project.
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I’m so impressed.. I’ve never been able to keep mine alive.
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Give it natural light and regular water, the tend to dry out over Christmas so often.
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Well done with your poinsettia, its looking really good. My white Christmas cactus is now covered in buds so will be flowering in a couple of weeks, but my pink one always flowers later.
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I only learned today of the different varieties: Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter ones which may explain why some flower at different times.
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