June! Still supposed to be Summer! We are still having wind, rain, thunder storms and cool weather….but it’s set to warm up next week. This week, again, to bring us all summer joy, I have chosen the most summery pink and redlooms. Here is my #SixOnSaturday for this week.

Red again, and yet more shades of dianthus. First a really dark one. Yet look closely and the stamens are a pale whitish colour, lovely details.

Second another form of dianthus, these ones have a delicate stripe of white along the very edge of each petal, really showing off the frilliness of the flower. Plus a clear white centre. These flowers are so pretty and make great cut flowers. I’m so glad a bought that one packet of seeds 3 years ago!

Bright, beautiful and a little plumper than in some years (maybe all the May rain?), here are red hot pokers.

The next flower I spotted this week is a stunning flower, but so fiddly that I don’t think it’s a plant I would choose to grow. It is barely hardy enough for the location, but somehow comes back year after year to present its unlikely, complicated and intricate flowers. It is, of course, fuchsia .

Into the pinks now. This is a tiny ground-hugging hardy geranium. Sometimes overlooked but with huge numbers of flowers, each one almost perfect, with tiny stripes of darker pink along the petal length.

To finish….what could be more wonderful in early summer than a peony. WOW.

I hope you enjoyed this week’s SIX. I enjoyed collecting them. Maybe in the coming week it will even be warm enough to dine in the garden. We shall see.

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