echinacea purpurea | Rosie Amber

We had more welcome rain this week and I was out catching it in my bowls and buckets. Small patches of brown lawns are turning greener. So what’s still growing in my garden this week?

Six photos from my garden — August 27th Six On Saturday

The Cone Flower or Echinacea that I featured a couple of weeks ago is now in full flower with several heads on this one plant.

Cone flowers from my garden — Cone Flowers (Echinacea)

Yesterday I picked the one melon that grew on my plant, it was getting wet on the ground despite trying to raise it off the soil. I didn’t want it rotting. I shall leave it in the sun to fully ripen. Not sure of the variety, it may be a cantaloupe.

Melon from my garden — Melon (Cantaloupe – I think)

I have a second variety of cucumber growing in the greenhouse. this one has a prickly skin, but I’m unsure of the name.

Cucumber from my garden — Prickly cucumber

The Hydrangea bought back in April is continuing to flower. It is still in its pot. I need advice on when I should plant it out. Now that we’ve had some rain, or leave it until Spring?

I have successfully grown several Agapanthus from seeds given to me by a relative. These will be over-wintered inside and planted out next year.

Last photo goes to the final flower from my Velvet Queen (red) sunflower. Despite the drought they have flowered well.

Thank you for joining me for this #SixOnSaturday post. I hope that you enjoyed it. If you would like to know more about this hashtag, read founder Mr Propagator’s post here also find him on Twitter here.

Happy gardening

Rosie

Links:

The post for all your links if you are joining in with the meme.
My Secret Garden has some lovely sunflowers.
One Man And His Garden has a selection of photos from gardens around Cornwall.
Lots of colour in Fred’s French garden despite the lack of rain.
30 Days Wilding is trying cactus for the dryer summers.
Hortus shares a few photos from her holiday.
Tony grows Cannas, pretty leaved and flowered plants.
Pesky pests on Noelle’s pear tree.
Off the hedge gardening has a super fan flower.
Granny captured the bees on her flowers.

We are well into our second heatwave experience of the summer with the drought continuing. For other parts of the world these summer temperatures are normal as is the lack of rain, but England is usually cooler and wetter. I can tell you that there is often a cool damp spell in the first week of August, but not this year. What is still surviving in the garden?

First photo is of a hot pink Gladioli, sister to the purple one included in last week’s post. However, it needs admiring quickly as the dry made it fade before it was fully out.

Own photo of Pink Gladioli — Pink Gladioli

Next pink specimen is of this Echinacea Purpurea (cone flower), this was a brought on from a parent plant purchased last year and separated to be nurtured to full growth. The parent plant has yet to show signs of flowering while this one has several buds.

Own photo of my Echinea flower — Echinacea purpurea Flower

Third photo is of what I hope is evidence of leaf cutter bees. Some of my roses have had small circles and semi-circles cut from their leaves. I have been stalking the plants to spot the bees but haven’t seen any. I hope the holes are not from weevils instead!🤔

Own photo of a rose leaf. — Maybe ‘munched’ by a leaf cutter bee

Fourth photo is of my King Edward potato harvest. I had just 10 potato seeds, these are the produce of 6 of them as the other 3 I planted in a felt grow bag and I harvested them earlier. Not a bad haul from a few plants. The dry was pulling the soil away from the tops and exposing the top ones to the light making them green.

Own photo of my King Edward potatoes — King Edward Potatoes

Fifth photo is of my onions. I pulled these so that I didn’t have so much watering to do. There are a mix of sizes in white or red. They may have grown a bit larger if we had had a wetter season.

Own photo of my onions. — Mixed Variety Of Onions

Last photo goes to the multi-headed hydra which is one of my sunflowers. It has now grown far above the fence. It has a huge stem which I prop up against the wind.