Tuesday, 16 July 2013

My garden this week –

The cosmos that I planted from seed have started booming




I am eating blueberries, strawberries and raspberries for pudding nearly every day the taste so sweet.






















The tomatoes have flowered and now the fruit are starting to grow, let’s hope that with this gorgeous sunshine they will ripen so I can eat them soon with my nasturtiums in a sandwich with cream cheese.
The lavender and roses smell wonderful and are attracting bees and butterflies.


It really is such a lovely place to sit, edit photographs, read a book, or generally potter and relax. Although I have plans which involve a sledge hammer, some bricks, stones and wood.
 It is however too hot for that today, I’ll just sit back and enjoy.

Posted by at

20 comments:

  1. Mammasaurus16 July 2013 at 22:20

    Such lovely sunny photos and I'm completely envious of you being able to eat so much home grown fruit!
    Bees are buzzing round my lavender too at the moment - great time of the year.
    Now I am intrigued as to your sledgehammer plans!

    Thanks for linking up x

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Unknown18 July 2013 at 21:27

      thank you, tis rather lucky for me they taste so yummy but the slugs and snails don't like them. glad to join the link it is great to see what others are up to and enjoy other gardens

      Delete
  2. Unknown18 July 2013 at 00:05

    Lovely pictures, Cosmos are such pretty little flowers, they always look so cheery to me. It's fabulous to eat your own produce isn't it, it just always seems to taste so much better

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Unknown18 July 2013 at 21:29

      thank you,i agree cosmos always make me smile

      Delete
  3. Mammasaurus18 July 2013 at 00:05

    PS. I hope you don't mind but I've added you in to the new linky that runs today as you joined in later last week and I fear most of the people reading might have missed you out x

    ReplyDelete
  4. Lil Muse Lily18 July 2013 at 00:24

    such loveliness. those tomatoes will be the best you will ever eat. ours were

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Unknown18 July 2013 at 21:31

      thank you, hope so and if they don't ripen i'll make green tomato jam which is yummy too.

      Delete
  5. Shell Louise18 July 2013 at 08:01

    It's so rewarding to see flowers on plants you've grown from seed. I'm eagerly awaiting flowers on some poppies I grew from seed earlier this year :)
    I'm very jealous of all your fruit. We have a blueberry bush but it won't fruit till the second year so hopefully next year will be the year!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Unknown18 July 2013 at 21:34

      thank you, it's such a feeling of achievement when they grow isn't it. I'm sure your poppies will be beautiful such a bright flower that brings so many different thoughts to mind. you'll love the blueberries, well worth the wait, I've had mine about 4 years they are so tasty and easy to look after i'm going to get another bush. good luck

      Delete
  6. Helen18 July 2013 at 13:16

    i really love the pale pink colour of that roses its so very pretty, this is the first year i havent grown tomatoes im very jealous

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Unknown18 July 2013 at 21:37

      it is beautiful and smells lovely, it was a wedding gift from my best friends parents so it is all the more special. I must admit I brought a little plant, none of my tomato seeds grew well enough.

      Delete
  7. Jean18 July 2013 at 14:19

    Very envious of your berries! We've been growing strawberries at school and the crops have been amazing this year.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Unknown18 July 2013 at 21:40

      raspberries are really easy although maybe a little prickly for little people. have they enjoyed eating the fruit?

      Delete
  8. Unknown18 July 2013 at 16:23

    How lovely there is so much you can eat!!! Really envious of those tomatoes and strawberries :)

    www.podcastdove.com - I've trotted over from here!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Unknown19 July 2013 at 19:43

      Thank you, I am lucky. Loseley Park looks and sounds amazing

      Delete
  9. Anonymous18 July 2013 at 20:30

    The cosmos really are pretty things, lovely to grow from seed and see them develop. Also look forward to seeing your tomatoes get bigger!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Unknown19 July 2013 at 19:44

      Thank you, hoping they turn red, other wise it will be green jam

      Delete
  10. Emma@christmascupboard19 July 2013 at 12:23

    I love cosmos, so pretty. I love lavender too...I keep promising myself some x

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Unknown19 July 2013 at 19:46

      I love the deep blue/purple of this one it is so vivid as well as smelling lovely, I have a couple that are more lilac/grey and although they smell great they're not so bright in the garden. Cosmos alway

      Delete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)