The Beauty of Nature

I saw this tree on my travels last weekend. You don’t see many of these in this country to be honest. So I was impressed with this.

Here are a selection of flowers from around my garden. I have been trying to spend a little more time in it this year. It is a little more rewarding than the plot as it doesn’t require so much weeding. Also, it is more colourful at the moment.

I have had to do a few jobs around the house recently, and popping out into the garden to potter in between has kept me sane.

I also picked some runner beans this weekend, you can see them here with the sweet peas and corn.

Notice also the courgette. One plant has grown significantly, though only has this small fruit on it. The other plant has flowers, but is stunted for some reason?

I’ve been up the plot today to do some weeding and also to pick some fruits of my labours.

As you can see form the pics below, there there are a lot of them coming on this year so I may actually get to eat one.

Well, there’s nothing to show you this week for a number of reasons. The two chief ones are that:

a) I lent my camera to someone for the weekend, so you cant see any pics as I haven’t taken any.
b) All I did today was weeding and that really isn’t worth looking at to be honest.

It’s been sunshine and showers all weekend, so I’ve been dodging them and decided to call it a day now. I’m home and about to go out for something to eat.

Hope your weekend was a good one?

Here are some picks of the hanging baskets as promised to you in this post.

As you can see, the flowers have come on nicely and the geraniums are also building to a good show later in the month.

I will give you more pics as and when they happen.

A quick tour round the plot this weekend – when it was sunny, well, sort of for a while.

There are a selection of pics of the courgette and pumpkin and squash. I’m hoping that some of them will last this year. I have grown them on in pots this year and though it is a little late to plant the last of them out, I didn’t want to put all my plant in at once in case the rain destroyed them like last year.

The first few are of the beans, sweatpea and corn mix that I put together this year as I hoped they would help each other out in our increasingly wacky weather.

This last one is of the onions I planted earlier in the year. They have come along nicely and I may lift a few next week, but they are fine in the soil for the present and wont be harmed by being left there.