A lightening paced, blink and you’ll miss it, here’s-one-I-typed-a-few-days-earlier Six on Saturday (I’m in the Big Smoke as I post this and about to enjoy a Premier Inn breakfast).
1-3. The deliciously fragrant flowers of the Korean Lilac (Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’) have begun to open, the daisies out the front (the offspring of a plant from the former free plant nursery up in North Wales) are blooming away, and the Bluebells at the nearby Hestercombe Gardens were looking rather splendid last Sunday.
4-6. The rather straggly and possibly short-lived perennial Erysimum ‘Apricot Twist’ got chopped back a few days ago. Cuttings have been taken and the flowers are filling the living room with their wonderful scent (which oddly enough is rather orangey). The Daphne x transatlantica ‘Pink Fragrance’ is doing it’s perfumed pink petally thing by the back door, and look who’s returned! Actually, there have been at least three hedgehogs in the garden these past few weeks – and there was a bit of hedgehog courting too!
They were my Six on Saturday, a meme originally started by The Propagator. For more Sixes on Saturday, from all around the world, head over to the blog of the current Six on Saturday host, Jim.
One Man And His Garden Trowel 
The flowers are all beautiful but the star of the show is undoubtedly the hedgehog, it’s fantastic that you’ve got three! What a great picture.
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Thanks – I had to lighten and sharpen it up a bit as it’s rather dark when they arrive.
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This hedgehog is well fed! (As much as my cat…)
You will be able to have babies soon? Pretty Korean Lilac comes every year (I say it again like last year but it’s worth it )
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They do seem to get through the kitten biscuits quite quickly!
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It’s great seeing so much colour in the Sixes now. Hestercombe isn’t very far from me but I haven’t been there for several years, thanks for reminding me about it. Hedgehog photo is obviously the winner but, plant-wise, the daisies come a close second.
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Hestercombe is lovely – although they seem to move the plant shop on a regular basis these days.
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Oh, my husband loves those Premier Inn breakfasts too! Enjoy your visit to the Big Smoke. As usual, your plants are way ahead of mine. None of my lilacs are in bloom yet, your ‘Palabin’ is lovely. I haven’t come across Erysimum ‘Apricot Twist, this is one to note. Yep. Mine are also starting to look rather straggly. Love your wee hedgehog! Three of them? They must love your garden!
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Thanks. We weren’t sure the breakfasts were quite as tasty as they used to be this time – they’re more pricey than they used to be too! It wasn’t until I brought in the cut flowers of ‘Apricot Twist’ that I became aware of the fragrance – it filled the living room. We had three hedgehogs in the garden last night – one scoffing the food and the other two were courting!
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There might be a few more hedgehogs making an appearance before too long. 😂
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Hope you had a lovely breakfast and visit to the city. How lovely to have all those hedgehogs.
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A good time was had, although we got a bit lost on the tube at times.
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Can’t beat a Premier Inn breakfast 🙂 Fabulous selection! I didn’t realise you were near Hestercombe, it is probably my favourite UK garden to visit. I really like that erysimum. I find they are all very short lived and a programme of annual cuttings is necessary to keep them going, but luckily they seem to take very easily. Hope you have a great weekend!
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Thank you. Turns out we were staying a short walk from St Paul’s Cathedral which was handy. Erysimum seem to go quite leggy and woody after a while. I’m not all that good with cuttings (apart from Penstemons) but hopefully some will take – if not I’ll have to buy some more try again. I must do the same with the Bowles Mauve variety too.
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Oh my a hedgehog. Such a more delightful creature than the squirrels and raccoons that frequent my yard.
I can smell the lilac and daphne. Are these fragrant?
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They are. The daphne flowers off and on for many months but the flowers of the Lilac only usually last a few weeks or so.
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Oh, how fun…the way you arranged the photos in threes. We have a similar Dwarf Korean Lilac, and it’s such a joy (and a lovely scent) when it blooms. Enjoy!
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Thank you. Enjoy your Dwarf Korean Lilac too!
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The lilac and daphne must be perfuming your garden at the moment, divine! You are so lucky to have 3 hedgehogs, I’m assuming I only have one, but you never know!
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We thought we had just the one initially. I’m still amazed and grateful that they visit.
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Great to see those hedgehogs in your garden. Apricot twist is a lovely colour.
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Fingers are crossed a couple of the cuttings of the Apricot Twist take (although none did last year!)
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How lucky you are to have three hedgehog visitors. Should hopefully keep those S&S at bay.
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I hope so – although I found a few snails in the mini greenhouse yesterday which doesn’t bode well when the seedlings on the window sill are moved into it.
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They are very sneaky with their hiding places!
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Ooh hedgehogs making whoopie, you must be doing something right in the garden! I have an apricot wallflower like that one, I must see if it survived the dry summer. 🌼
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Fingers crossed yours has survived.
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