and now even more ready to eat. does this not just look like something you'd see in the Sunday supplements.............Nigella eat your heart out............

still life with veg............

Is this not beautiful. A squash!..............and beetroot, courgettes and rhubarb all ready to eat............

Love-in-a-mist "Miss Jekyll"

Ipomea "Kiss Me Quick"...................!!

other pride and joy.................biggest ever sunflower!

our pride and joy......................amazing squash!

Godetia

the other day lily....................think this may have come from Mum's, no idea what kind it is and i think this is its first year flowering. beautiful double flowers...............worth the wait!

Phlox in flower

Random Harvest

Haven't really got our act together since we came back from holiday so out today for a bit of minor tidying.......................pulling up obsolete bolted lettuce, chard and rocket and planting more salad, picking beans and peas, cutting down some wilted borage etc. everything very lush................first blueberries now ripening so no need to go all the way down the garden to graze...............first tomatoes appearing too but still green. courgettes cropping steadily, runner beans ditto.............haven't looked at the potatoes yet to see what they're up to. PSB planted for next winter and delphimium seeds harvested...................

strawberries ripening...............

the veggie bed, note artichoke (very tasty) and courgette flowers................

giant teasel flowering - sort of....................

parsley, geraniums and busy lizzie "Pastel Shades" - just looks like the old-fashioned pink one that everybody used to have to me....................

our gooseberry crop. aren't they lovely? - tasted nice too. not bad for only its second year............

patio planters. almost all the nasturtiums this year are volunteers, which makes for nice surprises as of course there's no way to know what variety they are............contrasting nicely with the Mystery Herb in the next pot. patio clematis "Arabella" just visible in the blue pot to the left, looking so happy that we're hoping she might flower....................

And from the front garden.................

marigolds "Gay Ladies" - yes, really - from the Botanics shop..............

the roasted rose

glad to see it flowering this year............i think it may have been a climbing variety called "Compassion" but not sure............runner beans in the background............

morning glory "Heavenly Blue" - certainly is...................surviving outside so far on the warm wall. its little mate "Kiss Me Quick" is climbing away in a pot next door, no sign of flowers yet but i'm hoping it will feel inspired by this one's example............