Thanksgiving for some, a crazy shopping weekend for others, and for the rest of us, just another dark dreary end-of-autumn weekend. So I went out to find some garden joy, and thus here are my #SixOnSaturday.

I thought I’d start with an autumn favourite. A few stems of sedum have defied the wind and rain and are still standing proud, though this weekends frosts could well be the end for them.

I love the texture of the spiky, yet soft, foliage and stems of borage. There are still a few shy blooms creeping into flower too.

Bang! The very last of the cotinus leaves are bursting with joy.

A little more demure, a lovely coloured geranium is doing its best to keep entertaining us.

Autumn is a great time too for noticing that hardy fuschia CAN make it through the Scottish seasons….often these plants die to the ground in winter but can sprout back from the roots to give lovely colour now.

And last, I managed a flip round the garden before the frost hit, to collect some flowers and herbs for an autumn vase of loveliness. I am particularly enjoying the look of the parsley flowers here.

There goes my surprisingly colourful #SixOnSaturday for this week. Join the sixes on Mastodon or other instances in the Fediverse via #SixOnSaturday, 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 on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot

There was no six for me last week, as on family care duty. but I’m home this week, wandering through a totally sodden garden, but with a lot going on still, as there’s been little frost. iInoticed this week that rats had tunnelled into the greenhouse to eat recently planted tulips..I have no idea how many they’ve dug up…AHHH, rural life! Anyway, all I’ve managed this week is a selection of bits and pieces of what’s going on in the garden. Here are my #SixOnSaturday.

A lovely beech hedge lights up the short autumn days now. There are many many beech around here, so a local walk, even in fog and mist, is rewarding, and will be for a few more weeks.

On the flowering front, a tiny little hardy geranium is still trying to do its thing.

Back in the garden boundary, ivy is providing some sustenance for any insects still remaining.

One or two shrubs are forming a flower here and there. Pruning a hebe, and having no frosts yet, seems to result in blooms.

Seed heads can provide structure and beauty, like a swathe of clematis seed heads.

Last, but not least, a few roses are cheering up the dark dreich days.

There goes my surprisingly colourful #SixOnSaturday for this week. Join the sixes on Mastodon or other instances in the Fediverse via #SixOnSaturday, 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 on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot

Now we’re in November, I have to remember to go searching for garden joy. It has been tough this week as we’ve had yet more rain as a consequence of this year’s third named storm. But there was a little respite, with a couple of hours of sunshine, on Friday, so here we go for #SixOnSaturday.

First up is some proper seasonal foliage. the old cherry tree has somehow hung onto a few leaves despite weeks of gale force easterlies. The colour is great against a little blue sky.

In the main border, I’ve had not time to clear yet, but did notice a bit of colour coming from michaelmas daisies going well beyond their usual season.

In the warm and sunny corner next to the greenhouse there are a couple of holders on too. First, a few sweetpeas….in November!??

….and second, a more seasonal nod comes from the last of the nasturtiums.

Elsewhere, there are a few early birds on the winter-flowering front. This one is lovely, the first of the wall flowers has opened. The mixture of delicate shades i na single flowerhead is very appealing.

And last, some really strong seasonal colour has held on via the cotinus shrub this week. WOW, those reds really pop as the light ebbs away into November.

There goes my surprisingly colourful #SixOnSaturday for this week. Join the sixes on Mastodon or other instances in the Fediverse via #SixOnSaturday, 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 on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot