It’s SO nice to be home after almost 8 weeks away for work. I’d forgotten I had a garden that would need attending to very soon….that has come as a wet and muddy shock. But hopefully this weekend will offer the odd hour or two. Better than the -4 degC daytime high and blizzard I left behind in Canada on Thursday!

For this week’s #SixOnSaturday, I just ran round the garden before it got dark and collected a bit of garden love. First, what could be more appropriate than a wonderful rose, still trying to bloom in the darkest month.

Evergreen tree heather is looking bright and breezy with it’s lime green foliage.

I love a bit of honesty, don’t we all! Here in it’s plant form, its a wonderful structural addition to the garden in winter.

In the greenhouse, a few of the non-hardy geraniums are still in bloom. I’ll need to go through them all carefully to chop out any rot.

Last, WOW, garden veggies, I’ve missed those. It also looks like my partner, who has been here at home the whole time I was away, didn’t spot them either. Brightly coloured chard will be eaten very soon.

It’s so great to be home and fall immediately back in love with my garden. Now I just have to cope with darkening days for just a couple more weeks. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. Join in with our #SixOnSaturday thoughts and images. 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