June! Supposed to be Summer! We are now having wind, rain, thunder storms and cool weather….what we usually get in early May. Yet every week there’s so much to see, more flowers, lush jungly growth. The garden is loving all this rain. This week, to bring cheer against the rain, I bring you pink and red blooms. Here is my #SixOnSaturday for this week.

Starting with pink, always a joy to behold in early summer, this is an example of the HUGE poppies that appear every year. Almost dinner plate sized.

I’ve gone potty with potted dahlia again this year, it is becoming an obsession. I could not resist some bargain patio-dahlias, and they have already delivered. the first to open, these small pink flowers are looking good on the garden bench.

Dianthus are still coming. Here is a different colour from the one I showed a couple of weeks ago. This one has a small pink centre, then wonderful rich red outer petals. joyful, and will make great flowers for the vase.

Pure red, and always on my courtyard summer windowsill, here are the summer geraniums.

A newish plant, still in a pot. This is a type of chrysanthemum I think. Wonderful rich colour, and a lovely contrasting yellow centre. The bees and hoverflies like that too.

To finish……WOW…..the first lily out this year is a rich red one. I’m still battling lily beetle, but there are fewer this year so flowers look better.

Hope you enjoyed my summery six as much as I enjoyed finding them. Do join in with your own 6 things from a garden. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. I do read them all, keep them coming. And do join in with #SixOnSaturday. 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