Bloomin’ marvelous

August 3rd, 2008

I feel like we’ve totally neglected the garden over the past few months. We moved to Kinghorn earlier this year and had an initial flurry of activity in the garden, in fact on our first day here I created a herb / salad / spinach / beetroot patch right outside the back door, which has now been slightly overtaken by lovely nasturtiums…

…and thought that I would continue with the momentum and tranform the rest of the garden at the same pace. But work took over, as did milomade as well and I’ve hardly been out there since.

Just come back from a lovely day in Kippen with Maris, Sue and wee James and decided to get some herbs to go with the chanterelle mushrooms we picked in the rain today and got distracted with taking pictures of everything. Here are some of the blooms…

I’m not sure what this yellow flower is, but it’s beautiful and it’s growing nicely underneath the holly.

I love globe thistles and didn’t even know we had any until today when I discovered them hiding underneath the buddleia.

We had loads of Crocosmia in our little garden in Aberdour and I loved it and was sad to leave it behind. I was tempted to dig it all up and bring it with me, so I was pleasantly surprised to find some growing down the path at the side of the house. It’s just started flowering and the colours are so bright and amazing.

Not sure what these white flowers are either, but these are just beginning to pop open into bloom and they’re lovely and bright as well.

Some of my lavender that I’ve grown from seed above and below are some images of the Echinacea I planted this year. I have tried to grow these from seed every year and never had any success at all, so when I got the opportunity to get my hands 12 free plants, I jumped at the chance and planted them in an enourmous pot as we were moving house. A squirrel dug about in the pot and stole a few I think, but about 4 have survived and have just started opening up. I’m so pleased.

They don’t look like much now, but in a few weeks they’ll have full petals and look amazing. I can’t wait!

These are the courgettes that got planted out far too late due to the house move and are just now beginning to be productive – tiny little courgettes, that need some more time to fatten up…

- bad timing as we’re about to go away…maybe when we get back from our travels we’ll have some marrows!

This is the first year I’ve successfully grown carrots in pots and they’ve all come out straightish without any forking. They are a variety called ‘Eskimo’ that Sue gave me last year as a joke and I love them…

I also took this lovely photo of our lovely lettuce which is still in a small pot and needs planted out before we go, so that when we get back it’ll be ready to eat, even though it’s damn tasty in it’s ‘baby’ stage too.

We’ve also had some success with our two pear trees – they have only a few fruit each as most of the blossoms were blown away in a gale before they had the chance of being polinated. I can’t wait to eat these…

Not much success on the tomato front as we’ve not had chance to set up the greenhouse yet, so the Cordon Tomatoes have been growing in the back porch and will probably produce 4 little tomatoes on each plant which is disappointing, but they do need heat and light and they have neither. Our tumbling varieties on the other hand which are in hanging baskets outside are doing really well and I think we’ll have a huge crop. Fingers crossed the weather stays good.

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