Come and have a quick walk around our garden with me.

Won’t take long – there’s only about 12 square metres of it.

Blackcurrants. Last year had a yield of 6. Not pounds or kilos. 6 blackcurrants. And they were sourer than an irritated hag. This year, loads of flowers has lead to loads of blackcurrants! Yay!

2 hanging baskets each sporting 2 cherry tomatoes with a French marigold for pest control purposes. See the sweet little tomato peeking out? No hundreds and thousands this year. Maybe next year.

Mum grew them from seed. She raised them and hardened them off (*ahem* dreadful term), then I took custody of them once the annoying stage was over.

Hello raspberries! My raspberries are looking fantastic! They are waist high already.

Mum’s aren’t doing so well. She spends too much time growing things from seed and dragging them in and out of the utility room to get them acclimatised to the outdoors.

You should get someone else to do that for you Mum. I do.

My wicker hanging basket that’s flat against a wall type of hanging basket. Can’t remember what the daisy things are called. It’s the dragon-tongue looking one that I love. Lotus Flash, it’s called. Love it.

Alpine strawberries. If you’re not much of a fan of strawberries in their natural state (puts hand in air), then these are the only ones worth eating.

Auntie Rene gave me some patio courgette (zucchini) seeds. I couldn’t shake my feeling that they wouldn’t come up. The weather was so awful that I had to plant them out late, then I ran out of compost and had to rush out for more, so I thought, bugger it, I’ll plant all the seeds – so sure  was I that some would fail.

So I planted 3 in this pot. Ermmmmmm and all 3 in this pot have done very well indeed.

These are my Winter pansies that I planted before Christmas. They were pathetic in the Winter. “Never again!!” I moaned. Now, of course, when I need some room, they’re blooming their brains out. They’re doing it on purpose.

I love Aqualegia

I adore Aqualegia

I wish I had an Aqualegia dress

Chives. Happy in the shade. Odd.

Hi, Aqualegia! (really must deadhead those thangs)

Standard, large, normal tomatoes. Mum and Dad told me they were potbound and that it was Mum’s fault for ‘doing them too early’. I have no idea what that meant, so I tutted and shoved them in a growbag.

My bargain wicker ‘raised’ (not by much) bed.

Bright lights chard in the front row – please note the yellow, pink and red stems

Salad leaves (cut and come again *ahem*) in the middle row.

Ah. Yes. That would be where I put the other 2 of Auntie Rene’s courgette seeds. Yes. They both look very healthy too. There will be much courgette here!

Sweet peas that don’t climb up sticks, but inhabit hanging basket things.

My beautiful, beloved Acer. Can’t eat her, but I like looking at her.

Herbs – parsleys, mint, thyme, oregano, fennel. One casualty already. A moment of silence for the Sage please. How amusing that it is the wise herb that has chosen to die.

I forgot to mention dandelions. I have seven billion of those.

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2 Responses to “Our Garden as of 7th June 2010”

1. MIL aka auntie rene says:

   27 June, 2010 at 5:31 pm

   Have just harvested my first courgette, several others in the next week. Very interested in the sweet peas you are growing,roses this year are superb,
2. Anna says:

   29 June, 2010 at 11:53 am

   I’m watching the courgettes like crazy for signs of flowering – I think there might be a couple of flower buds at the bottom of the plants – time will tell! The sweet peas are growing taller, but no sign of flowers on them yet.