Spring continues with the last weekend in April really hotting up. It’s been 17 DegC outside on Friday and will be sunny all weekend. This is a short look at some lovely colours as we’re busy with friends this weekend. So here is #SixOnSaturday.

Late springs see azalea flowering. I love the simplicity of a white bloom.

In a boggier area, hosts and beginning to come into leaf, looking fresh green and pristine at this early stage.

The tulips have lasted well this year, though I suspect a warm spell this weekend will see them bow out for the year.

Hopefully, there won’t be too many more frosts — if not the gunners will continue to grow and grow. it has just started it’s comeback for the year.

The last of the doffs are hanging on, but are now going a little curly at the edges. It has been a great season for them.

Last this week, the bridal veil is in its gentle fluffy flowering, a delicate and beautiful sweep of tiny flowers.

I hoped you enjoyed sharing my spring #SixOnSaturday. Do join in with your own 6 things from a garden. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. I do read them all, keep them coming. And do join in with #SixOnSaturday. 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

Spring continues with April being the most colourful month in my Scottish garden. Here is a riot of colour for the week’s #SixOnSaturday.

My favourite blossom of the slightly later season must be amelanchier. Not as full blown as the cherries, but set against a lovely red-brown set of stems. It wafts in the gentlest of breezes, yet holds it blossom for a good long time.

After years of trying to get tulips to naturalise in the garden, they are finally doing it. We’ve had a few warm wet winter lately, maybe that’s what they need. I love this bold rich red against the fresh growth coming on the border perennials.

At the pond’s edge, spring marches on, with marsh marigold enjoying its couple of weeks in the sunshine.

Another almost-as-favourite blossom is pear, this is a very old tree trained up against the 200 year old house wall. I’ve always wondered if the tree is as old as the house. I suspect it is.

Everyone has been marvelling at the huge and numerous blooms on camellia this year. Including nearby, such as my neighbours garden. Yet just a few yards down the hill, my camellias just have not been up to much this year. Each bloom is rather lonely, set in a flush of green leaves. they are so beautiful despite (or because of) their scarcity.

To finish this week, my garden must have been well designed 100 years or so ago. I host a succession of different rhododendrons, that flower in succession, giving us huge splashes of colours for weeks on end. this one is the first. Wow!

I hope you have enjoyed the wild and crazy form and colour that the Scottish spring brings. That’s all for this week’s #SixOnSaturday. Do join in with you won 6 things from a garden. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. I do read them all, keep them coming. And do join in with #SixOnSaturday. 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

Quite some weather this week. We started with Storm Dave, which was very wet, very windy, but didn’t do too much damage. Then a few more frost nights, then a very disappointing 12 degC in what promised to be a mini-heatwave (apparently it was 25 degC in parts of England). But I guess that IS why the Scottish spring is so beautiful, it is long, cool and slow. The blossoms unfold one after another, the spring bulbs fight the wind. Here’s some of that flavour for this week’s #SixOnSaturday

WOW….my all time favourite flower of the year. I wish you could hear the bees buzzing round the blossoms on my wonderful Japanese cherry. Magnificent!

Despite the wind and rain, daffodils of various varieties are bobbing along in the sunshine, and giving me plenty of pickings for vases in the house.

One of my favourite narcissi is Thalia, there is something so pure and beautiful about the pure white flowers with slim, yet sturdy, trumpets.

I don’t know the name of this multi-headed little gem, but it has really wonderful scent.

This year I planted mixtures of different tulips in pots. I must say I’m very pleased with this yellow and red mix, with different structures. When the sun comes out, so to the flowers for a blast of spring warmth.

And last this week, by 2nd-best-ever plant in the garden is also in full bloom. A huge magnolia near my legs beds. An ancient form of tree I believe, yet a wonderful icon of the season.

That was my joy-of-spring best this week. I loved collecting the images and taking a slow stroll round the cool garden. Hope you liked my selection. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. I do read them all, keep them coming. And do join in with #SixOnSaturday. 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

Happy Easter to all who celebrate. I’m celebrating that it’s moon-shot week. I was 5 years old the last time people got anywhere near the moon. This time I have more than false memories. We’ve been geeking out with TV coverage in our house, but there has been a little time to hang out in the early spring garden. This week I have some wonder colour and some promising edibles to show you for #SixOnSaturday

I was very please I brought tomatoes back into the house last week. We have had a couple of firsts. I’ve been moving them out for a warm greenhouse treat on sunny days (at least those days when I’m in from work early enough to get them tucked back into the house). Tomatoes are doing well. Here’s one, still enjoying an indoor windowsill.

In pots in the garden, I’m now a fan of tulips like this one, with pointed and slightly twisted petals. They seem to bear wind and rain better than the goblet-shaped ones.

It is blossom time. I’m going to have a slow walk through the garden Saturday morning, as we have ‘named storm Dave’ bearing down on us overnight. I hope we’ll still ave blossom like this left after it has pushed us through into Easter Sunday.

There’s been action finally in the veg bed. I grew some red oak choi, and some mizuna, in little pots in the greenhouse. I hope there are plenty of hungry birds around now, because I just put this lot out into the garden. Those birds will be needed to take care of the slugs.

Forsythia, so old fashioned, almost gaudy, I’m never sure……on a cold sunny day though, the colour blends nicely with daffodils and lifts the spirits.

To end this week, what would be more fitting than magnolia stellata to represent humankind’s re-emergence into the universe beyond earth.

Spring really IS here now, and some of you will have a long weekend to enjoy it. Hope you don’t get blasted by storm Dave. I hope you enjoyed the colour and promise that has finally arrived in the garden, for my #SixOnSaturday. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. I do read them all, keep them coming. And do join in with #SixOnSaturday. 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