I’ve had a tour round the garden this morning, looking for lovely colours and textures, before the first ‘named storm’ of the season rolls in tomorrow. Here are my colourful #SixOnSaturday. First, some proper colour from neurones, which have burst through the remains of other foliage to show off.

Some of the decaying foliage looks wonderful, especially with some raindrops on it. The last of the hosts have just flopped, soon to be contributing to my garden compost.

The chives are having a go at their last (I assume?) burst of flowering before dying back for the winter. Wonderful colour and texture in close-up.

I have a diminutive little shrub, that isn’t noticed for most of the year. It does look lovely in autumn, again with rain drops accentuating its glossy rich red coat. Is it a photonia? I’m not sure.

A cool wet summer with low light levels has not done much for my sunflowers. This one is finally trying to have a go. I’ve never seen one deliver such little petals.

This is the time of year for the sedum to come into its own. I have a few of these. Some of the long heavy stems will soon be gracing a vase of flowers for the living room. Wow, what fabulous colour.

I hope you enjoyed my autumn colours as much as I have. We shall see what is left after storm Ashley has blown through tomorrow. 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, it’s 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