This week’s six on Sat starts with a noisy bee visiting a cyclamen. There aren’t many bees around at this time of year, but this big bee was notably audible when I was sitting indoors, and it spent several minutes buzzing around and feeding from the flowers. I can hear a bee buzzing outside as I write this blog.

Yay for bees.

One of the best benefits of planting winter flowers is attracting bees into the garden. If the layers of bulbs in these ‘lasagne’ planters grow according to plan there will be a succession of spring flowers over the next six or seven months.

I’m delighted with these planters, and wrote about how ‘we’ made them, with some pointers from lessons learned along the way. I wish we’d done it sooner, and I’m glad we’ve done it now.

Spring bulb ‘lasagne’ recipe and lessons learned – Do The Plan

At quarter to eight this morning the back garden was mostly in shade – and it’ll be mostly shady now until April. So any little pops of colour are really welcome.

I’m pleased with the nasturtium flowers, they grew from seeds I collected from their predecessors and planted back in August.

The flowers that remain in early November are a bit ‘raggedy’ but they’re still colourful. There’s cosmos, pansy, geranium, campanula and daisy still attempting to bloom.

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So that’s my six on Sat.

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And have a lovely week

J xx