Happy Valentine’s day to all who celebrate. There’s so little growing in the garden yet that it is sometimes hard to summon the love. But something lovely did happen on Friday 13th, and I managed to get out and enjoy it. For the first time in about 25 days we had some sunshine and blue sky. This week’s #SixOnSaturday shows that sunshine streaming onto some lovely sights in my garden.

There are signs of the new season ahead. Here are some tiny lupin shoots, just starting their journey back to life.

Lit by the sun, those magnolia buds that always take forever to open are looking more and more promising….properly furry this weekend.

Back on the ground, I think this will be a rudbeckia or similar, with tall stems and lovely yellow daisy like flowers in mid-summer. It’s on its way.

In the old established border, pieris is flowering hard. The sunlight make details of the tiny flowers much easier to pick out.

Back to the ground for the last time. I think this is either delphinium, or monkshead, or is the latter a wild poisonous variety of the former? In any case, here comes another 2026 plant.

Last, just look at this late winter blue, blue blue sky, with hazelnut catkins blazing away in the sunshine. Here’s the love!

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