Here’s a selection of garden highlights for Six on Saturday, where bloggers share what’s growing on in their gardens.

Horse chestnut saplings in cute little bonsai pots, sitting in the old cast iron fire basket. I’m not sure these little pots will be suitable homes for them for more than a month or two. The care required to make them into amazing bonsai like the ones shown in this horse chestnut bonsai masterclass might be a bit ambitious for me, but I will try to keep them alive.

The next selection is Gertrude Jekyll rose, which has just started flowering against the side fence.

The wisteria is wonderful, hopefully it has a couple more weeks of flower still to come

The pansies I grew from seeds collected last year are flowering in similar colours to their parents. I’m surprised by how well these have done, and will try to make time to collect seeds to grow pansies again later this year. It’s quite satisfying to reuse the plastic pots that they came in to make new generation of ‘free plants.’

I greatly enjoyed making sweetpea towers last weekend, using willow stems and hoops. The seedlings in the pot on the steps have started to come up, so that little pansy doesn’t look so lonesome anymore. there are now three sweetpea towers around the garden, the one closest to the door is the neatest, and it is topped by a ‘feathervane’ to catch the breeze.

You can make your own feather vane with an old pen, some sticks, wire and string. This one features a goose feather we gathered from Chew Valley last year. It’s lovely when it catches the sunshine.

My final selection is this Turkish sage cutting, taken accidentally from its parent during over enthusiastic weeding. I accidentaly pulled a small clump with roots away, so thought that I might as well plant it, and get some more of this smashing plant. So far, so good, this littlun is perky and hopefully will settle into it’s new home nicely.

I hope you have a good week.

J xx