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Six on Saturday is a weekly meme hosted by The Propagator. If you’d like to join in you can find more details here. If you can find the time, do check out the posts by other participants.

Watering, weeding and feeding has continued to be the order of the day. It’s difficult to believe the Summer Solstice is nearly upon us at which point my husband will be able to say – as he does every year – ‘The nights are drawing in…’

Here are this week’s six:

1. The first crop of French beans and courgettes. Small but tasty.
2. Not long acquired, Salvia Nemerosa New Dimension Blue is already flowering despite being nibbled by something that’s been able to make its way over a bark mulch.
3. You know it’s hot when even a buddleia is drooping.

4. It may be common and a bit of a thug but the Hypericum still makes a lovely show.
5. More unknown variety of roses – a deep pink…
6. And a lovely pale pink

Enjoy your garden or outside space this week.

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme hosted by The Propagator. If you’d like to join in you can find more details here. If you can find the time, do check out the posts by other participants.

Between watering, weeding and feeding the garden demands a lot of attention at this time of the year. However, it’s also the time when you start to see the results of your efforts, especially when it comes to fruit and vegetables.

1. A flower spike on a hosta with a lovely bronze heuchera in the background.
2. I love the markings on this Dalmation Cream foxglove I bought recently and it already looks very much at home.
3. We harvested the first container of new potatoes (the variety is Rocket) and, as has become our custom, steamed them with garden mint, slathered them with butter and ate them in the garden. Not a huge yield but very tasty.

4. The first climbing French beans (the variety is Cobra) have made an appearance.
5. Not to be outdone, one of the courgettes has produced its first fruit, although it’s still small at the moment.
6. To get any raspberries at all this year was a surprise as they’ve been neglected for a couple of years and I didn’t cut down the old canes at the beginning of the year. Therefore these are fruiting on old wood and are hence quite small but tasty none the less. It proves there is still some vigour in them so I’ll be giving them more attention next year. (I can’t believe I’m already thinking about next year!)

Enjoy your garden or outside space this week.