THE ONE WHERE I GET ROUND TO PLANTING THE BULBS

Yellow roses from the garden.  Rather droopy I'll admit.  These are the climbing roses on the front of the house (Rosa Golden Showers), which have been flattened rather by the rain and are now leaning all over the terrace.

Exhibit One - the box of bulbs which needs planting.  What have you got in there? please pretend you are interested.  I have Narcissus Tresamble and Tulip Maureen for the mainly white front garden, with some double flowered Mount Tacoma for the urns.  For the knot garden I ordered Tulip Ollioules to replace another pink variety which didn't come back after the first year (China Town).  In the central beds I'm planting Cairo which is a coppery colour.

Here's the trusty bulb planter being put to work.

I'm also adding a few Camassias - white and blue- to see how they go.

In these urns I've planted some crocus Joan of Arc which I saved from last year and some polyanthus that I plant in a spare corner of the garden for the Summer and then pop them back in here until the end of May.  The upturned wire baskets are to hopefully keep the squirrels off.  

Talking of squirrels, someone in the neighbourhood must have a walnut tree, because I found three walnuts in their shells carefully buried in the urns when I replanted them.

In at number four is this trough of buzzy lizzies which have done so well this year even with all that hot weather.  I haven't quite managed to throw these on the compost heap yet.   A job for the weekend perhaps?  I'll be planting Narcissus Sailboat, Muscari and Puschkinia in here.

In spot number five are these Hosta leaves.  I don't know whether I like them or not (Autumn colour or Dead and Dying?  You decide) but they caught my eye when I was photographing the garden.  On further reflection I'd say Dead and Dying. .

I think this picture of fallen leaves in the woodland is more to my taste.

Last but not least, is this frankly rather unusual flower spike on the Yuka.  Bailey junior and I had a jolly good snigger about it.

As a postscript thanks to everyone who made suggestions for the butternut squash.  The roasted chunks were delicious in this salad.   I didn’t grow the chickpeas or yoghurt but everything else was home grown. 

That’s all I have room for this week. All the Six on Saturday posts can be found on Garden Ruminations our new home from home thanks to Jim who is caretaking while the Propagator takes a break.