Note: Many of you have found me as @julie3dharris on Twitter. I’m not willing to be their product now, so you’ll find me more and more on Mastodon @julie3dharris@mastondon.scot

Quite a week, coldest weather for 10 years, coupled with my continuing elbow tendon injury means there has been no gardening at all. Again. But it has been very pretty. Here’s my icy and (more recently) snowy #SixOnSaturday.

The frost came first, -8 deg C of it (with a daytime high for -4 for 3 days!). I suspect there won’t be much left of the snap-dragon once the thaw comes laster this weekend.

It would be nice to think that the pansies might recover, but I’m not convinced they will either. The tiny fingers of frost on them are fascinating.

Camellia buds, I hope, won’t be damaged and will weather the weather without too many cares.

Then the snow came overnight Thur/Fri, a good 10cm of it. I’m hoping my mediterranean herbs will come through: there’s a rosemary hiding under here.

A couple of the roses have come off better, these little pink ones cheering up a rather monochromatic courtyard.

Last this week, here’s our favourite ‘highway-robin’ (its a hold-up with a demand for food every time I walk down the garden path). She/he was so hungry on Friday morning that they were willing to briefly land on my hand to get to the birdseed.

I hope you enjoyed my freezing #SixonSaturday. Stay safe, take care out there, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on Mastodon. We are starting to get the sixes going on Mastodon (other instances in the Fediverse are available), but we need a few more folk to toot on the topic: come join us. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. Also on twitter @JamesLStephens. And I’m now mostly on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot.