It is that time of year when sometimes it’s lovely out, sometimes awful. So being stuck inside after a medical procedure this week hasn’t been too much of a restriction. Before that, I nipped out occasioanlly to take a look, and had a little forage in the greenhouse for this week’s #SixOnSaturday.

First up are the start of the late winter flowers. A few crocus have popped up, but something keeps nipping off the flowers. Is it a naughty blackbird, or even a cheeky little red squirrel? I have no idea. This clump has managed to keep a few flowers.

Even more exciting, a lonely little anemone is the first of her kind to brave the elements this year.

I pruned back some budlija weeks ago, as the really high winds were causing them to rock. This one thinks it’s spring, is budding well, though you can see frost damage on the delicate new leaves.

I very often overlook this plant in summer, and forget that it keeps itself going all through winter. Celmisia looks lovely just now, set against the rough browns of the rest of the winter border.

Into the greenhouse now for a colourful forage. I forgot to plant out a tray of radicchio in autumn, so popped into pots in the greenhouse. They are growing VERY slowly, maybe another month and there will be enough to make a mushroom-radicchio lasagne. I’m looking forward to it already.

To be eaten sooner are a few winter pak choi. I managed a few of these in the greenhouse last winter too. Very pleased with how these are looking.

I hope you enjoyed my wintery picks for #SixOnSaturday this week. The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, its a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. 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/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot