The light returns! We’ve had some cold crips clear days. There is now light(ish) when I wake around 7-ish, and the sun is going down just before 5pm. It feels wonderful to see the light days coming back. I think my plants agree. This week’s #SixOnSaturday suggests how garden plants are responding too.

My first offering shows a detail of a viburnum in full flower. This week I noticed bees feeding from it’s tiny blooms for the first time this year.

There is some growing action in one of the main flower borders. A furry poppy that will have hand-sized large pink blooms is pushing forward. If we have some hard frosts these leaves will be gone. But for now, things look promising.

The greenhouse shelters my little lemon tree during winter. There’s a tasty looking lemon almost ready to pick, and lots of little ones.

I’m hoping for species tulips soon. The foliage is well on its way, no sign of flowers yet. if there’s heavy rain, I may need to bring these bulbs into the greenhouse as any flower buds will rot if there’s too much wet.

Some brave chard have managed to overwinter. The pink stems on this one are a real gem. If sunny afternoons continue, the big stone garden wall will warm these beds and the plants will bolt. I may try a new recipe I’ve found for chard kimchi. If I harvest leaves now, there could be another flush for the dinner table before the flowers buds come in a month or so.

Last this week, there has been enough sunshine at the front of a sheltered border, near the house, for crocus to emerge. I can almost bring myself to think of ‘early spring’ when I see these (but it might be FAR too soon to speak of spring).

I hope you enjoyed a ‘late winter’ (??) #SixOnSaturday. 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