Last weekend was our village Produce and Flower Show. No cups for me this year, but at least I got a 1st prize for raspberries, a second for a ‘dish of peas’ and a scattering of 3rds. AND I got a 3rd prize in a craft…new hobby is crochet as I’ve been laid up for months after hip surgery. I won for a crochet bag…yippee. And in the mean time my flowers have been busy blooming in celebration. Here they are for my #SixOnSaturday.

At the top of the bill, having flowered for what feels like weeks, these sweetly scented lilies are still stealing the show and attracting oodles of pollinators.

After what feels like months of waiting, dahlias are now doing their thing, mostly in garden pots. First up, the huge dinner-plate sized red and white one that reminds me of raspberry ripple. Always a joy, though some critter is beginning to nibble it.

A new dahlia this year is my next-up, much smaller, but with similarly striking colour and rather delicate pointy leaves, I think this one will offer a lot more flowers and I love it already.

So, far this simple peachy bloom could be my best pom-pom dahlia for years. Its fairly small (tennis ball sized), hard to show in one photo, but is showing a close-to-spherical fush of curved petals.

A final dahlia this week, this is ‘bishop’s children’, dark leaves, the quorms seem to last over winter if dried and stored, and the hover flies love them. This bloom features 3 feasting hovers.

And for something a little different to end on, the warmer days have brought out the agapanthus, looking lovely juxtaposed against my still-flowering herb fennel.

I hope you enjoyed my celebratory mid-summer flowers. And thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! 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