I didn’t manage a six last week as we were having a few days away in Northumberland, near Hadrian’s Wall. A fabulous spot, often windswept and chilly, even in summer. This time we sweltered in humid air and 26 degC. And similar things (not quite as warm) have been happening at home. Lots of warm humid days, allowing us to sit out in the garden with 20 degC even at 8pm. Makes for some unusual outdoor dining, and a pleasant outdoor evening, before we head in to watch the daily highlights of the world’s best sporting event — Tour de France of course. Anyway, to keep us cool in all the excitement (also just happening to be close to the team colours of the current yellow-jersey), here are 6 lovely white blooms for this week’s #SixOnSaturday.
My first this week is cosmos. Perhaps my seeds were old, somehow this year I’ve managed to raise very few plants. This white one looks lovely in the evening.
Nearby, I’ve got some tatties in tubs (as the veg bed is too full). I think these are Shetland black, yet oddly, they have a white flower.
Some of you will know that I love dahlias. They have been slow to start this year. A new one for me is a big plant, delivering lots of white flowers. Hover flies seem to love them too.
In the last couple of years I have grown a few wild carrot from seed. They turn into a a huge annual plant, with side-plate sized flowers. Wonderful.
My garden is host to other native wildflowers. This is a tall daisy of some sort, very pretty.
The final flowers this week are another self-seeded wildflower. Feverfew smell a bit like camomile, with larger flowers that apparently make a soothing tea. they are also very pretty, flowering feeling in swathes of delicate colour.
I hope you liked my high summer white #SixOnSaturday. Some wonderful warmth in Fife now this summer (though I feel very lucky we are so far north, I can’t take real heat). 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