The region where I live has been stuck under a ceiling of cold grey cloud for about a week now. It is hard to be bothered to go out and look at the garden. I always forget that the February run up to spring is very much wintery. I did get out, though it was hard to find much inspiration. Some of this week’s #SixOnSaturday are from my little trips out, others from the house and the greenhouse.

I will start in the warm. I sowed chilli seeds, as I always do, in January. They have been resting cosy on a warm windowsill above a radiator since then. Some have done very well. This is a dish of cayenne seedlings, growing away nicely now. Helps me think of the heat to come.

Into the greenhouse, I’ve had some success this year with osteospermum cuttings. Here is (admittedly) by best one, growing away nicely, even though it is currently only 3 degC in the greenhouse. I will be pinching out those flower buds to promote stronger growth.

Braving the outdoors, a few hellebore have found their way into ground just below a twisty hazel tree. Here are the flowers peeping through the hazel branches. I like the combination of pale lime-green against the brown twistiness.

A surprise was in store in a south-facing corner, almost under a garden shrub. The shelter and dryness must have promoted a few euphorbia into flower. I’m beginning to see a green theme emerging this week that I hadn’t planned!

Some green here too, but I also liked the mix of yellows, browns and reds (perhaps the stress of winter cold) in this little clump of saxifrage urbium.

I cannot get around the garden without feeling, yet again, the joy of snowdrops. One shady east-facing border has naturalised to a full-on carpet of flowers. I’ll be heading for a nearby visit to a ‘snowdrop garden’, at Cambo, Fife, next week. Hope to see many many thousands more of these there.

I hope you enjoyed yet another ‘late winter’ (??) #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