A brief look around the garden.
After my weekend away the first thing I did was to admire the garden. Every time I leave my house the first thing I do when I return is to check the pond. I’m not sure why I’ve developed this habit, or what I expect to see, but it’s always the first thing I do. This time I checked the pond and found far fewer tadpoles than I expected. Before I left for the weekend lots of them had legs, now I’m thinking a whole bunch of them grew more legs and felt brave enough to hop out of the pond and explore. Guess I won’t be seeing a lot of them until next year when they should return to spawn.
Having stood over the pond, I then took a good look around the garden. Suddenly every thing is in bloom. My garden has been blooming for a while, but not like this. Despite the weather, summer is now officially in residence in my garden. In fact the rain seems to have encouraged every thing to grow more. And that includes the food. My latest batch of radishes and lettuce are now ready to eat and there were more strawberries waiting for me.
The garden is looking great now
ReplyDeleteYour garden is trying to escape Loretta :-)
ReplyDeleteMy buddleia had gone mad this year, I should have cut it back - now its much too big, but absolutely covered wth flowers. I'm taking it out altogether when it stops flowering.
ReplyDeletemmmmmmm a tasty looking crop, I notice it includes blackcurrants which are probably a month behind the ones I grew on account of your northerliness of course. I can't remember if I told you that my bush produced enough fruit to make 6 jars of jam, it absolutely loves the rain. Looking at this picture is making me hungry
ReplyDeleteExcellent photos Loretta, your garden is a credit to you and all the work that you put into it, it's lovely!
ReplyDeleteNooooooooooooooo
ReplyDeletewhat a shame, this one is about three years old. I bought it from the B&Q bargain table. It looked dead and the only reason I bough it was that the picture on the pot showed flowers darker and more vibrant than I had ever seen on a Buddleia before
Hello Loretta, just having a peep what your garden looks like. Its like a nature garden with lots of colour, shapes and smells.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you spend a lot of lovely time in it. :-)
yeah i remember you saying. I'm picking my black/ red and white currants a few at a time every day. I'm keeping most of my fruit in the freezer and then, after the blackberry season, I'm going to have a jam making weekend.I bought a big fridge/freezer especially to accommodate my anticipated crop this year. I've already got a bag of spinach, a pot of broad beans, loads of herbs and assorted fruit waiting to be made into jams and pies.Plus a good few bags of potatoes in the store cupboard
ReplyDeletethis could be a painting?
ReplyDeleteeverything is so gorgeous-we have not had rain here in over 2 months and the 100s and high 90s with hot sun have been relentless here-was refreshing to see your green and colorful garden
ReplyDeleteHi........... thanks for stopping by...a natural garden with space for food is exactly what I wanted. All around the edge, just inside the blue fence are small hedgerow plants, I have dog wood, wild rose, holly, hawthorn, rowanberry, blackthorn, hazel, beech and a couple I can't remember right now. Point is they are all native plants and especially kind to our native wild life. It will take a few years for the hedgerow to grow but it will be worth it in the end.
ReplyDeleteOh and the fence is made from old thrown away pallets and the wild life pond is an old bathtub
oh the lack of rain must be awful for you, your poor garden it must take an awful lot of watering.
ReplyDeleteyes I water once a day, to save on the well, we have enjoyed beautiful heirloom tomatoes, and a few peppers, a couple of eggplants. in the spring we did have fresh salads most every day. It is nearing time to let it all go though-this week every day we are getting 105 or 106 degrees-so thinking to bring in all the green tomatoes and call it quits-perhaps try a fall garden if we get rain in september.
ReplyDeletethe hungry wildlife have found my squash and sweet potato plants-hoping for a few fall squash from it
I wish I could share some of my water with you, my garden is looking good but I'm sure it doesn't need ALL that water, we could spare some,
ReplyDeletewhat a gorgeous garden!
ReplyDeletei've never seen this pelargonium here in the states - i want one, LOL
ReplyDeleteyum!
ReplyDeleteI like to think of it as 'small but perfectly formed'' :-)
ReplyDeletegreat photos and your garden is really jammin' now! ; )
ReplyDeleteit is perfect
ReplyDelete:-)) TY
ReplyDeleteThis is my favorite shot...Love bursting through the confines of a blue fence:) Sweet photo!
ReplyDeletewhat a perfect little eden
ReplyDeletea pleasant blend of flowers and veg
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It's so pretty and adorable! I want a frog pond too! I will refrain from outright balling on your page though! lol
ReplyDeleteWtg., rain and Mother Nature!
i just love how all of this splendor just spills out all over the place. :-)
ReplyDeletereally pretty. i want one too! lol :-)
ReplyDeletedelicious! you're doing well on the yield this year! :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat's not to love about your garden?
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely pond feature. We used to have a pond at our moms house. The racoons would eat them.
ReplyDeleteLoretta, I am sure you check the pond first because the creatures there depend on you for their habitat.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it marvelous when all the hard work pays off and you can stand back and admire it!! The fence looks very nice with the green and the flowers. For all the complaining that we do about excessive rain, it is such a necessity for life to thrive.
ReplyDeleteIt's looking good.
ReplyDeleteI love the blue-wash fence and all the flowers spilling through it.
ReplyDeleteLovely.
ReplyDeleteLove love the mix of flowers.
ReplyDeleteGreat for attracting butterflies.
ReplyDeleteI like these, there a big patch of them in the garden here.
ReplyDeleteAnother one I like.
ReplyDeleteCrop-garden looking god too.
ReplyDeleteNice crop :-))
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