Blooms, Doodle, Pukkin.

Was it only a fortnight ago, we celebrated a new doctorate in monsters?  Seems ages.

Maybe cuz last week, it was all hands on deck saving plants from hellfire temps.  This week, we've a sick old dog, Mr BigNose.  Nothing life threatening but he gets us up several times during the night.

Still the garden grows.  The peas have finally failed.  The pumpkins are charging up the wall & across the lawn.  The water lilies have bloomed & bloomed again.

Then there's the alien life form that originally presented itself as a sunflower.


1.  Medusa.

This featured a few weeks ago when it still looked like a sunflower.  Since then, it's sprouted a headdress.

View from the back.

And a shot with Mlle DoodleFace to show how huge those leaves are!

Medusa's sister (to the right) is taller but hasn't started blooming yet.


2.  Calendula

These were part of an edible flower kit given to me for Christmas.  The kit also included nasturtium, dianthus, viola, corn flower (which featured a few weeks ago) & something else I can't remember that didn't germinate.

I threw the calendula seeds into a shallow grave on a bare patch & left them alone.  Here they are, blazing away, a few bits of verbena petals accenting their hair.


3.  Free petunias.

I've never cared for petunias but when these came as a free gift with a plant order, I dutifully planted them, fought off S&S hooligans, watered them on 35C days.

It was touch & go with the S&S brigade, but now the petunias're blooming their socks off.

Look at that sweet little face.  What's not to like?  No accounting for some people's taste.


4.  Begonia.

When I was a child, I considered begonias to be old lady flowers, like roses & coleus.

Now that I'm an old lady, I think they & all their old lady sisters are quite fine.


5.  Neon glad.

I got no new glads this year, but don't remember this from last year.  You'd think with a face like that, it'd be unforgettable.  I quite like it.

It showed up in the pot of the Black Swan beech in the right of the photo.  The Black Swan was given to me as a birthday pressie a few years ago, arriving at about 6' tall.  It lost 10-12" annually during its first 3 winters but has now settled down, content to be short & wide, like me.


6.  Pukkin.

The Halloween traditionalists were scandalised when I decided to grow white pumpkins this year & only calmed down after assurances that there were the usual orange ones planted as well.

I'm a bit concerned to have 2 of these darlins so close together, but we'll cope.  They're the most beautiful creamy yellow at the moment.  The traditionalists might just come around to my way of thinking about these beauties.

And there's my Six for the week.

Make sure you drop by The Propagator who hosts all us #SixOnSaturday bloggers in his comment section.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope to see you again real soon.