There have been robins courting and blackbirds fighting in the garden this week. As I clear the veg plot for the season, they are all busy helping me with the insects. Despite being very much in clear-up mode, there are still a few surprise blooms having a last go, and some wonderful autumn leaf colour. Here are my #SixOnSaturday.

First a big flush of colour from the Boston Ivy. I do like the way each leaf flushes from green to yellow to red. These won’t last much longer.

A surprise against the house wall. Somehow a lupin has seeded itself between the path and the wall. And somehow it has managed a second flush of blooms. I’m reluctant to pull it out now, even though it blocks the doorway.

Twisty hazel has lost all her fruit now. I never find any, instead the husks of the nuts are hiding in a corner of the garden where the red squirrels drop them after a feast. The new catkins are coming through, even when the leaves have not quite fallen yet.

This year, Japanese Anemone have not been great, but one or two plants have saved themselves for a late season wave, just before the clocks go back this weekend and gardening turns into a morning job.

Roses, roses, what a year they have had. And still a few are trying to bloom. This one has a rich spicy smell and perfect tightly packed petals.

I think my favourite colour in the garden this week are the blueberry bushes. Now bright pink before the leaves fall. A joyful colour, even on a gloomy late-October day.

I hope you enjoyed my autumn colours as much as I have. Need to keep up our spirits as the clocks change and the dark really comes in. And thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, it’s a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot