It’s nearly the end of the year. Before looking forward to the new season, I want to review a few highlights of the year, so here are 6×6 from every other month!
Back in February, the season began to kick off nicely. Some wonderful flowers, including a tree (spot the tiny red flower next to the hazel catkin) and a ‘wildflower’.
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Daffodil and their cousins are a flower I always look forward too, though the season is short. Here they were in April.
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Hot colours emerged in the early June flower borders.
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From August, I always love a veg show, and won prizes for a few of my entries this year. Here are my favourite 6 from show week.
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Delightful dahlia are now firmly my late summer love, they did not disappoint in September.
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For my last set of highlights, there will still loads of flowers blooming, well into a warmish October. It felt wonderful at the time (though feels a lifetime ago at the very dark end of the year).
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That’s it for this week, and for 2023. I hope the new year, when it comes, heralds a refreshing waft of garden scent and a vivid swathe of colour.
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 the former birdsite, for those who must: @JamesLStephens. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot