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’.

Daffodil and their cousins are a flower I always look forward too, though the season is short. Here they were in April.

Hot colours emerged in the early June flower borders.

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.

Delightful dahlia are now firmly my late summer love, they did not disappoint in September.

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).

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