I’m sitting in the dark on a Friday evening preparing my #SixOnSaturday. Storm Éowyn has cut our power, and it looks like we might loose a laburnum tree from the garden, which is currently sitting at an unpleasantly jaunty angle at the west end of the garden. It could be worse. We still have the roof on! Just nearby there have been gust of over 100mph recorded, wow. Luckily, I collect my six yesterday, so here they are. I’m going to post this early, while I still have a data signal.

First up, it was hard to record the storm by camera. Here, you can see adjust sweeping over the pond and flattening last years grasses, which were standing high.

In a quiet, sheltered corner, aconites have just appeared, sitting amidst the shoots of daffodil and other spring bulbs.

Nearby, a clump of cyclamen looks lovely, but yet again, it has no flowers. Anyone have any idea why?

Some lovely furry shoots of something are coming up in the border. Not sure what this is, possibly the hardy perennial cornflower.

This evergreen has grown waist high from a tiny cutting I was given in north west Scotland many years ago. We call it a New Zealand Holly. I’m not sure what else it is called.

Last, but very much not least. I posted a blue crocus bud next week. It wasn’t — it was a lovely iris, here it is now in full flower.

I hope you enjoyed my stormy #SixOnSaturday. 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