Still no rain. It has been several weeks now. Scotland’s lush green is turning dry and dusty. We must get some soon! In the meantime, spring flowers are enjoying the sunshine. Here are some of this week’s including a couple of edibles for #SixOnSaturday.

Sweet woodruff is an unassuming little plant, yet provides great ground cover and delicate white flowers in shady corners.

In the veg bed, some of my broad beans are very much in full flower. We should get an early crop this year.

Another edible, just finishing its flower show is blueberry. I have been irrigating these a little as the plants do not like a dry soil.

My favourite spring bulb (after diffs, and of course tulip…..) is the allium. They love my garden, and have self-seeded all over the borders.

Phlox does well in a tall border — borders are very tall this year. I fear when we do get rain they will be smashed, but for now, they look fabulous.

Last night I spotted a blue-tit making it way around all the red-hot pokers. I don’t know if it is sampling nectar or taking insects. Didn’t catch a good photo, but here is the strange yet wonderful flower.

That’s my #SixOnSaturday this week. I hope you have some wonderful sunshine to enjoy gardens and green spaces too. But when will it rain? 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