The cold finally arrived out of nowhere. 5 days with daytime highs of 3-5 deg C, and at night -3 or -4 deg C. We were lucky not to get the snow that hit further south. All of the lush growth has collapsed, but it seems fitting as we’re VERY close to winter now. Here’s some of the recent garden sites, and a couple of comforting edibles.

First, wow, squish went the nasturtiums, who had been growing well over knee high, all around the garden.

Perhaps that wasn’t surprising as there was a really decent grass frost over all these recent nights. Its is beautiful to see it clinging to grass and moss.

There was some fairly major collapse in the main borders too, 1.5m tall persicaria are coming down. Time for the compost heap.

I was a little sad to see the last roses flopping after the frost, they have been so beautiful and so long lasting this year.

Yet a late crop of broccoli have escaped those pesky caterpillars and appear to be growing on.

These cold days have also provided an opportunity for finally giving up on the greenhouse chillies. The crop has been very poor after a dull summer, but at least there are a few and colours are pretty.

I hope you enjoyed this week’s frosty #SixOnSaturday. 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