Garden produce

Of course nobody who has read E F Benson's account of life in Tilling can hear the words "garden produce" without laughing, but we are as usual very proud of ours.......never having managed to grow French climbing beans before. The runner beans were a complete dead loss - not a single one of the dwarf seeds came up, a few of the normal ones have come up but not cropped - though there's still time I guess. ......

It seemed a long wait for the daylilies this year, but when they finally appeared in mid-July it was worth it, huge spectacular blooms and only finishing now. Only the ones in the right-hand bed haven't flowered, and I think they will have to be moved again cos it's probably too dark once the buddleia comes up. The bees are very excited about the buddleia, and the borage - we've dug up the phacelia and put in a green manure with lots of clover which hopefully they will like.

The water lily continues to grow more and more leaves, so here is one of the frogs doing an impression of John the Baptist................

The patty-pan squash are now starting to crop along with the courgettes, unfortunately Carrie had cooked them before I had the chance to do their portrait, but they were very nice......