A warm dry spell. Garden seems to grow a few cm per day. I’m actually having to water the veg beds. In May! And it is becoming hard to try and share the lovely lushness of my favourite month. So glancing around, it seemed time to start on some colour themes for #SixOnSaturday. It had to be blue.

Mostly because the Spanish bluebells are totally rampant. I do need to try and pull some up, but its hard to do so when they offer so much beautiful blue.

Very soon another huge thug will come to dominate. For now, aquilegia are just coming into their own. What lovely shape, form and colour.

A rather sad shrub, seems to be a bit dead and ugly below the 1m top, but on the top…ceanothus is glowing with blueness. Perhaps I will risk a major prune once the flowering is over.

Vinca (periwinkle) creeps around the dry south facing walls of the house, makes it through all weathers and loves a drought.

A local wildflower, green alkanet (is it related to speedwell?) pushes up to 1m with huge furry green stems and delicate little flower. I guess it keeps the uglier weeds down.

Perennial cornflower has come from nowhere these last few weeks and is now lush and full of flower. Another plant that loves a dry spot.

I hope this weeks six brought some joy and didn’t make you feel blue. My garden is certainly a welcome solace for me at the moment. Stay safe, take care out there, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on various instances of the Fediverse. Join the sixes on Mastodon via #SixOnSaturday, but we need a few more folk to toot on the topic: come join us. 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/. Also on twitter @JamesLStephens. And I’m now mostly on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot