Chicory and Cherries

If you want any garden jobs done in these scorching days, they need to be done early or late.

This morning saw me splitting a beautiful perenniel rudbeckia, bought at half price, into 5 lovely pieces. I used an old carving knife to do it. It was 7.30. 

I also pricked out the last of my spring bedding. This includes wallflowers, myosotis, bellis daisies, sweet williams and violas.

 I am having to keep a close eye on the seedtrays in case they frazzle so all covered over with shading.

Then it was off for a delightful swim and our breakfast on the beach.

A quick visit to the garden to water.

Inside the polytunnel .....

I was astonished to find the sweetpea row needing a very good pick. Last time there were 4 flowers.
 

The other thing growing madly are the courgettes .... after a very humble start where we thought we would lose the plants .... to this.

Most of our meals include courgettes.

 Second course includes raspberries, redcurrants, cherries, blackcurrants, blueberries (not all at once) with Greek yoghourt.

 

Other flowers doing well are the dried ones ..... statice and pink pokers. The colour range is great. 

Helichrysum are only just starting.

 

I`ve bunched them up to hang in the garden room.

 

Outside the garden on the piece of ground we are developing, a great swathe of chicory has just begun to flower.

 

It is sky-blue. The first time I ever saw it was on the verges in Austria and Switzerland whilst hitching to the Greek islands in the late 60`s. I had plenty of time to study the flora and fauna in between lifts!!!

Tim tells me it grows in the pastures at the farm but he rarely sees it flower due to the cows grazing.

I think it is beautiful.

One for your wild area Belinda if you haven`t got it already.

 

Plenty of insects around it today. 

In fact plenty of butterflies all told. And here is the first buddliea to greet them.

 

 

 

 

 

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