I fifth #SixOnSaturday for August this year. To celebrate what feels like a bonus, in what has been the UK’s hottest summer on record, here are 6 beautiful purple blooms.

One of my favourites is hardy geranium, maybe Roseanne. Even when I (frequently) forget to chop it back mid-season, it scrambles around and delivers flowers above all the used-up foliage.

There are a few sweetie left, they have had a great summer, perhaps because I have remembered to pick, feed, water, repeat.

For the new season, I now have Michaelmas daisies in flower.

And from the old season again, there are a few cornflowers in pots that have come up with a new brush of blooms.

Again, a last flush from some of my lavender plants now that they finally have some water.

To end this week, here’s a hint of autumn, colchicum are coming up, always a bright burst if I manage to clear away some of this summer’s lush growth.

I hope you enjoyed my summery six, I thought we all deserved a burst of colour to end this astonishing summer. 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