Just couldn't resist a few early morning photos in my garden.
Campanula lactiflora, a little bowed down after Monday night's heavy rain, Geranium 'Rozanne', the beautiful, apple-blossom scented Rose 'Francis E Lester'
, and a shot of the main flower bed (sounds very grand, but in fact is quite small by standards, as my garden is quite narrow), showing the phlomis (almost over), geraniums, lilies, and echinops (about to flower). In the foreground, hanging from a very old double trunked bay tree, is an antler. I found this in a ditch in Scotland, when I was 11. About three years ago I hung it in a tree at the bottom of the garden, but the squirrels took delight in gnawing pieces out of it, so it's now nearer the house.
Returned from the plot yesterday, with so many sweetpeas that I shared them with two friends. Tested another pea pod - this time the peas were just the right size, but I'll have to wait a few days before there are enough plump pods to make it worth while collecting a few. My first courgette had gone rotten (probably due to the heavy rain, as mentioned above), but there are plenty more on the way. The day before, I took up John B's offer of a lettuce off his plot (mine are still fairly small). It was such a large specimen that I shared it with my pal D. Lovely and crunchy (that is, the lettuce not D, although Mike and I do think she is quite 'lovely').
, and a shot of the main flower bed (sounds very grand, but in fact is quite small by standards, as my garden is quite narrow), showing the phlomis (almost over), geraniums, lilies, and echinops (about to flower). In the foreground, hanging from a very old double trunked bay tree, is an antler. I found this in a ditch in Scotland, when I was 11. About three years ago I hung it in a tree at the bottom of the garden, but the squirrels took delight in gnawing pieces out of it, so it's now nearer the house.
Returned from the plot yesterday, with so many sweetpeas that I shared them with two friends. Tested another pea pod - this time the peas were just the right size, but I'll have to wait a few days before there are enough plump pods to make it worth while collecting a few. My first courgette had gone rotten (probably due to the heavy rain, as mentioned above), but there are plenty more on the way. The day before, I took up John B's offer of a lettuce off his plot (mine are still fairly small). It was such a large specimen that I shared it with my pal D. Lovely and crunchy (that is, the lettuce not D, although Mike and I do think she is quite 'lovely').
It looks like a perfect gardening day, so must get out there.
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