Spring continues, May rushes on, I’ve never understood how these longer days seem to go faster. For #SixOnSaturday this week I present my first colour theme of the year, from whites to very pale pink.

On the old walls of the house, I grow an almost white clematis Montana, this has just come into bloom.

Suddenly white edibles are in flower. The first are strawberries. Last year the flowers were few and the harvest poor. It’s looking a lot more promising this year.

As the first pink rhododendron from a couple of weeks ago fades, the white one takes its place. This is often buzzing with insect life, but the early morning photo didn’t reveal much wildlife.

In a very sheltered warm corner of the garden, with high stone walls to the north and east, and wonderful clematis with huge white flowers is blooming away. I’ll have to cut it back after flowering as it tends to strangle the plum tree it grows next to.

Broad beans were encouraged to an early start in the greenhouse, went out about 3 weeks ago: now the first flowers have come. This is one of my usual varieties, with flowers shaded from white through pink to black, later I’m trying one that apparently has all-black flowers, we shall see how that looks in a few weeks time.

Last, here’s one of the very last tulips in bloom. this one hides behind a big shrub, so mostly shaded. It has kept its pointy-petalled form for a few weeks now. What a delightful combination of form and colour.

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, it seems such a gallop into May, everything is growing, including the weeds. I have lots of little plants to pull out of the greenhouse and into the veg beds, what a whirl of activity. Its starting to get hard to choose now, but here are some lovely colours and some edibles for the new month. Here is #SixOnSaturday.

It is wild garlic time around here. This year I’m trying a new recipe to ferment wild garlic as a spicy healthy condiment. 2 kg went into a pair of 600 ml pots with 2% salt….and we shall see how it does after a week or two. Here is some of it before it got harvested.

Some lovely wild violet have popped up in the lawn this year, many more than usual, making a wonderful purple carpet amidst our untidy moss-n-grass lawn.

A white favourite of mine to end the narcissus season. I have tried pheasant eye all over the garden, but it comes back year after year in just one shady spot, soon to be covered by hosts leaves. Dry shade must be it’s favourite summer habitat.

Some of my blueberry bushes look a little tired, but others are now bursting with tiny perfect flowers, giving us lots of promise for July and August.

We are a good few weeks behind most of the Uk for this one……bluebells have just started to flower. Sadly, my garden does not host the native type. Instead I have a garden full of Spanish bluebells. Not so delicate but bursting with wonderful blue colour that we rarely see at other times of year.

And finally, here we go with the apple orchard. It’s apple blossom time. I always love this time of year.

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