SixOnSaturday- new shoots in the second weekend of January

 After a week of hard frosts and mists, when I looked out this morning, at least the frost had gone and I thought it might have warmed up a bit. However, stepping outside, it was clear it was still cold, and the brick path laying will have to wait a bit longer yet if it's not to be endurance test. 

So what did I choose for my six? I started with one of the succulents I have left outside, it's good to see what survives and this one looks as though it might do so. It's in a small trough, and this morning still had some snow on it which looked rather picturesque:

I walked to my allotment yesterday as my exercise, it's about 2 miles away, and it's possible to walk back via Lawn, making it a nice round trip. I was pleased to see there were still sprouts, cavalo nero and swiss chard to pick, and the garlic has begun to grow since I last visited:

It's good to see things growing even in the depth of winter, well I'm sure it didn't grow last week, but during warm spells before then.

I think people posted photos of clumps of snowdrops before Christmas, well it has taken until this week for one flower to properly appear, there are lots of others just emerging.

And cyclamen coum are looking wonderful, there are big clumps of various different shades of them from almost white to deepest pink, all with slightly different leaf patterning.

I do like piles of bricks, and making brick paths, and last weekend someone backing onto the other side of the alleyway at the bottom of their garden, knocked down the wall at the end of their garden. The wall had originally formed the boundary around The Croft, a large house where Levi Lapper Morse lived. I am indebted Frances Bevan who wrote a piece about LL Morse on her blog where she reveals that Morse St in the town centre was named after him, and Winifred St named after his wife. Knowing the history of the bricks, I was keen to have some, the guy knocking down the wall said they were mostly broken and I could help myself to any I wanted. As you can see, I've got a good haul!!

Lastly the magnolia flower buds are really bulking up, can't wait to see the flowers. Sadly the stellata still hasn't really settled in and doesn't seem to have any flower buds.

OK so that's my six, I'm off now to see what The Propagator who started this wonderful journey of looking for six things related to gardens and gardening has chosen for his six. He's always so inventive, not sure what I think about the knee pads, I'd have liked to see what the jeans look like when he takes them off.