Spring flows along, going faster and faster…can’t keep up with all the garden happenings. there’s so much to look at, I’ve gone for a colour themed six this week; purples and blues for #SixOnSaturday

First the wonderful bluebell. These are the Spanish, not native, they are thugs, but lovely thugs. here’s an example popped up against a very dry west facing wall.

My favourite species of ground cover plant is on its way. Hardy geranium. This variety has deep purple flowers on tall stems, always starts early. As it has this year.

In the lawn, tiny clusters of viola are showing. Perhaps the are easier to see this year as my partner hurt his back last week, hence there’s been no mowing for a while.

Pulmonaria have been flowering since January, and still going strong, providing nectar for garden bees.

In a pot, lurking in a dry corner, I’ve spotted a rosemary just coming into flower.

Last up this week, perennial cornflower. Somehow these grew to 1/2m high and got themselves into full flower without me noticing. Happened really quickly!

That’s my #SixOnSaturday this week. I hope you have some wonderful sunshine to enjoy gardens and green spaces too. 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