June! Summer! The warm days have gone and we are having something like April showers. But the days grow lighter and lighter and the garden just explodes with growth at this time of year. There’s so much to see, I don’t know where to turn, slowly I just took a slow breath and contemplated the pond. Therefore here is my #SixOnSaturday for this week, some flowers, all from the pond or near it.

This week, iris have begun to bloom, with a good dozen a=or more all at once. this one is the native flag iris. These just spread and spread, seeming to manage in really quite deep water. we do have to pull out many evert autumn — for now, they look lovely.

This next flower found it’s own way to the pond margins. Water avens is it’s wildflower name. they are the native form of geum and grow in ditches and verges around here. This shot shows a deliate little flower and a sparkly spiky seedhead.

Back for one last time, candelabra primula have had the most wonderful season this year, and still show a few flowers at the very top of the flower stalk.

We were given one little spring of monkey flower for the pond many years ago. Some years the pond margin is bursting with them, this year less so, but they have started. Always a bright and cheerful friend to people, and those runway lights for bees.

I don’t think I ever planted forget-me-not in the pond margin. I think this is a variety that favours boggy ground. It provides a gentle blue to contrast with the bright yellows.

Last for this week, the Japanese iris. What a fabulous mix of colour and form. Almost perfect.

I hope you enjoyed my water six this week. A good 19 years ago we dug a big pond, and have loved it ever since. great for birds to bath, small mammals to drink, and wonderful plants to make their home. What’s not to love?

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