Well that's what it looks like.............while we were away everything has gone completely mad. It was only a couple of weeks but in that time the antirrhinums have finished, the crocosmia are out and all the salads have bolted. We had just started eating the raspberries before we went away so we missed most of them, but we did not miss our fantastic crop of blackcurrants, gooseberries and rhubarb, now all being turned into cordials and delicious fruit fool. The pak choi is most impressive - two varieties in the packet, a pale one which has all bolted and a purpley one which hasn't and is much more chunky. The spinach is just delicious, nothing could be further from that bitter dark green glop you get frozen in the supermarket........so tender it doesn't need cooking at all..........
The potatoes have also gone mad and taken over the veg plot so we've lifted them.........not a huge crop but not bad............this year the cucurbits have done really badly thanks to a cold and wet may just as they were getting going, but the squash plant actually has little squashes developing, not sure how big they'll get or even what kind they are................
We missed the ranunculus too, they were just opening when we left and had finished when we got back, I'm sure they were very pretty but it would have been nice to see them.................gladioli just about to flower, shirley poppies everywhere as usual, nasturtiums putting on a good show including some very pretty peach ones. delphinium putting up a new flower spike, and scent-wise at the moment we have lavender, jasmine, roses, and great wafts of honeysuckle, just gorgeous................
have planted out the musk mallow and potted on the himalayan honeysuckle that we got free..............put in more spinach and salad, my cos lettuce from Hill House have settled and are growing away but more salad never goes amiss...........
Hopping about in the undergrowth are teeny wee frogs..............