Ten days into May and the garden is blooming. The sun is out today (Sunday) and, despite a chilly wind, it's very pleasant to be outside. Our succulents have burst forth with blooms; yellow on the left and pink on the right......
... and the Aeonium cutting which I purchased for £1 from a plant sale 2 years ago is loving it too....
Two years on it has babies of it's own...triplets in fact 😀...
We have tiny strawberries in the trough to the left of the fig and the greenhouse is positively bursting with fledgling plants. We have managed to find a Passandra cucumber plant as well as a Lumos yellow pepper. Both performed really well last year and I hope to repeat the success of those. There is lettuce in a tub so that I can pick leaves as and when I need them and we will be growing tomatoes in the greenhouse too; Sunbaby (grown from seed very kindly sent to me by a blog buddy) and Crimson Crush which is a larger tomato for slicing on pizza or sandwiches.
To say I am getting excited is an understatement !
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How is your garden doing?
Thanks so much for popping in. Do stay safe and well wherever you happen to be,
Angie 💗
Our Outdoor Girl tomato plants are doing really well and have flowers on. The strawberries are also in flower, but we don't grow much else now we have a much smaller garden. I've managed to mow the lawn and plant out the geum, aquilegia and verbena I bought from Chatsworth, with our 'friend's' discount, they are reasonable and such beautiful plants. Xx
ReplyDeleteYes, those plants are beautiful aren't they. We have verbena at the front of the house and it helpfully seeds itself all over the place! I have to carefully pull a few up every year from places I don't want them to grow :) xx
DeleteIt's all looking very lovely Angie. Isn't it nice when our plants give us babies ... i.e. free plants. :-)
ReplyDeleteMy garden is looking good at the moment, we are just on the verge of more colour. I have told Alan we need to get this house on the market during August, when the garden will photograph well for the estate agents details.
Oh yes...it's the best time of year to do the photos of the house now, especially on a lovely sunny day and it will give you a record of how it used to look before you moved. We've recreated many a spot after seeing old photos!
DeleteI have more figs, but smaller. And lots of radishes
ReplyDeleteOOh...need to sow radishes! I forgot!
DeleteYour figs are well ahead, even my tomatoes in the greenhouse are slow this year. Very chilly here today, glad I decided against doing a car boot - much too cold for standing around.
ReplyDeleteThe figs quite took me by surprise. Yes....far too cold for a car boot :(
DeleteYour garden is a delight 😊 I have not made plans this year as there will be so much going on this year
ReplyDeleteThank you Kirsten x
DeleteYour garden is coming along so nicely! My winter vegetables are coming to an end and my summer vegetables are still tiny seedlings or still waiting to be planted! But, I picked my first peaches and we are enjoying those. :)
ReplyDeleteYour peaches looked so delicious and they are a fruit we simply can't grow here
DeleteEverything in your garden and greenhouse is coming on wonderfully. It has been very chilly here the last few days and very cold at night which is unusual in the South East by the coast. We don't have a greenhouse but we do have two sheds both with large South facing Windows and I put my seeds and young plants in them and they normally do well. However this year some things have failed miserably and seeds have not germinated. I am going to buy some young established plants from the garden centre, but of a cheat but there we go. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny how some seeds just refuse to germinate. We have struggled with runner beans this year and yet schoolchildren grow them on blotting paper! Young plants are not cheating at all in my view. Our cucumber and peppers are young plantlets, not seeds...
DeleteWe just are starting to plant a few things. Mostly seeds as we could still have frost up until next weekend or even a couple of days later.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is bursting with colour. Figs, yummy.
God bless.
It's suddenly gone jolly cold here too, Jackie :0/
DeleteEverything looks beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you Linda :)
DeleteYour Aeonium is doing really well with three little babies. I also noticed that the word Aeonium contains every vowel. Just a bit of trivia 😊. Everything seems to be growing well in your garden. I hope you have lots of flowers and veg both in the garden and allotment this year Angie. Our rhubarb has done really well this year.
ReplyDeletei read your post about the Howard Drury garden club. I do remember him on television along with Arthur Billit. I was a fairly new gardner then.
I must tell my hubby about the Woodville library at the Black country museum. That would be a lovely day out for us.
Hoping that your symptoms are settling down and you are feeling better. Thinking of you and enjoy the weekend ahead x