......it looks very impressive but as herbs go it's not exactly useful.............the golden oregano is looking extremely healthy though and at least can go in the pasta.............nice clump of chervil in the hanging gardens...............and dill in one of the baskets..........
........tiny green tomatoes are now making their appearance, and most exciting of all, tiny yellow squash. courgette flowers also on the way, and the onions have fallen over like they're meant to which my book says means they're ready. i've eaten a few tiny strawberries off the clump in the wild area............and there are a few gooseberries coming too. not sure what's happening in the potato patch................copious healthy-looking foliage but it remains to be seen whether there's anything underneath it..................
............some casualties of course......i thought the canary creeper was too good to be true. a couple of the courgette plants disappeared, fingers crossed for the rest............there has been some heavy rain but mostly it's been hot, dry and sunny which is probably helping. i also took the snails for a walk.................to the playing field. what's very strange is that there were loads living in the day lily, and yet they don't seem to eat it..........a few nibbles, but despite the numbers they hadn't stripped it. i suppose it makes sense not to eat your house but i didn't think they had the intellectual capacity to work that out. anyway.........a bucktful have gone to play cricket and i figure it may take them a little while to walk back.................
............watering this evening, i gave a frog a fright..........so some of the tadpoles did make it, or at least one. the pond is nice and murky so there are plenty of places for them to hide.
............flower-wise it looks a little bit sparse as various things have finished and others aren't out yet. the day lily will be out very soon, but the purple clematis has finished and so has the dicentra. the pyracantha has pretty little white flowers, i didn't think it would flower in its first year............can't see them too well behind good old Johnson's Blue, but that means nice berries in autumn. the organic rose is soldiering on as usual, and a peachy-coloured one has turned up in that clump that i don't recall having seen before..............
.......one of the prettiest effects is, as usual, completely accidental. i must have put some california poppy seeds in beside the orange patio rose.............they've come up and turned out to be a beautiful cream colour and it looks gorgeous. big clumps of borage have arrived too, always nice to have the flowers for our drinks...............i cleared away the aquilegias now they've finished, hoping to create more room for the lemon balm............
......at the front i put down some fenugreek as green manure, hoping to suppress the weeds...............planted another vinca, the purple one, and an epimedium.............the pink rose has stubbornly flowered, so although it must be bone-dry and devoid of nutrients under the tree, it's hanging in there........so is the one bit of paeony that refused to be dug up and moved to the back.........
...........geraniums very slow to flower, a few flowers beginning now but it's not exactly the glorious display i'd hoped for...still, once out they'll go on for ages and then they can come indoors to be made into cuttings for next year............my little alpine plantings look superb and i'm so pleased with how they've turned out. especially the pratias..............they are both covered in beautiful wee blue flowers and spreading between the cracks just as i wanted them to............there are huge clumps of thyme everywhere, i don't think i ever actually planted any but i'm not complaining...............a geranium has established itself under the tree which appears to have migrated from no. 16 as i saw it in their garden............so nice to have generous neighbours............
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