Last week I managed a sneaky trip to the English Lakes, and took in the spring joy of the Wordsworth Daffodil Garden, in the village where he lived (though a little busier these days). So here are some sights from that weekend where my Six only appeared on twitter (@julie3dharris).

This week, I’ve been enjoying the unusually settled weather and occasional warm sunshine. A wonderful way to bring on the blossom, so much so that it is now becoming tough to choose which flowers and buds to show off as my #SixonSaturday. It’s become so salient that my spring garden is dominated by yellow and blue, so to keep world events in mind (again), I’ve gone for mostly yellow and blue scenes this week.

First, yellow hazel catkins picked out against the bright blue sky, almost the end of their season, but still glowing.

My garden is always filled with daffodils of all varieties, here are a couple. First, your ‘basic’ as I think of them, big fat trumpets and a solid look.

Now for something much more delicate, a frilly pale lemon centre and almost cream surrounding petals.

Muscari are well into full flower now, and smelling sweet in the warm spring sunshine.

This has been an unusually good year for hellebore. the season started slowly yet there have been more flowers, on stronger, longer, stems. Here elegantly bobbing above a sea of scilla.

Finally, daffs also look fabulous with other flowers, here providing a lovely blue-yellow contrast with pulmonaria.

That’s my #SixonSaturday for this week. Stay safe, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on twitter and via the web from links to the originator of #SixonSaturday, the Propagator himself.

Thank goodness spring is coming. It’s where I’m getting my hope from right now, there seems little else in the world that’s going well. Let’s focus on the flowers, starting with what’s becoming a grim tradition of blue and yellow. First up is an early spring favourite, just out, and not quite fragrant are a few grape hyacinth.

The second fragrant flower of the week is mahonia. I’m never sure about mahonia, a bulky shrub with wide spiky leaves and alarming yellow flesh. In March it smells divine and draws dozens of my neighbour’s honey bees (not evident here on a chilly grey morning).

Another shrub fills the border in an inoffensive way all summer, looking, well, green. At this time of year pieris hosts a mass of tiny white bells on red stalks. Very pretty.

And now down to the ground for early spring joy. Most of last year’s wallflowers got leggy and horrible, but not all. This stunner reminds us that summer will come.

I’ll finish with hellebores that are perfect right now, and seem to be particularly floriferous this year. I love the delicate veins on an almost white flower.

The dark colour of my favourite hellebore is rich and sumptuous, this morning it came with a bonus bumble bee, the first I’ve seen this year.

That’s my #SixonSaturday for this week. Stay safe, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on twitter and via the web from links to the originator of #SixonSaturday, the Propagator himself.

The first Saturday in meteorological spring, the second Saturday of a horrific war in Europe. It seems frivolous to look at and think about the garden. But I did, and it brought some joy. Hope it brings you some too. It’s all about flowers.

First, the yellows of late winter witch hazel, early spring primula and the very first spring daffodil.

Now the late winter blue of iris, and the spring colours of scilla and periwinkle.

That’s my #SixonSaturday for this week. Stay safe, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on twitter and via the web from links to the originator of #SixonSaturday, the Propagator himself.