Wall to wall sunshine has characterised this week, despite some cold easterly winds everything seems to grow many cm every day. There is now so much to see in the garden that I spot new blooms every time I look. This week, some wonderful spring pink things caught my eye for #SixOnSaturday
Call it a wildflower, or a weed, whichever it is, the form and colour of campion is beautiful.
My garden borders are a haven for aquilegia, which have popped up everywhere. Many are purple, but a few are the more interesting hybrid varieties, like this lovely pink-horned flower.
As regular readers of this bog will know, I’m a huge fan of hardy geranium. This one came from a cutting from a neighbour. Highly drought resistant, very very pink.
Spanish bluebells do magnificently in the dappled shape that a tree-filled garden allows. Some of them are not blue. This year, there’s a good scattering of very pale pink bells.
My almost favourite plant in the garden this week is the candelabra primula. I picked up a single plant from a local seller a few years ago. And I planted it in a VERY wet spot, in a boggy area at the edge of the pond. Now there are 5 little plants, each with its own stem. Wonderful.
In May, in a Scottish garden, the rhododendron cannot be beaten. This one is 3m talk, 3m wide and WOW….how could anything else be my favourite right now?
That’s my #SixOnSaturday this week. I hope you have some wonderful sunshine to enjoy gardens and green spaces too. After all those months of cold and dark, spring comes on SO FAST…give us a few more weeks, please! 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