Today was our last visit to the garden before a week`s holiday in Greece. I was reluctant to leave, wondering how it will fare. There is so much to harvest and it needs picking regularly. Last week our excess courgettes went to POPPS, which stands for Pett Old People`s Project. The elderly people from the village gather for a meal and various activities such as singing and tai chi. They often make up vegetable packs to be taken home, so from now on our excess will go there on a Tuesday morning.
A few weeks ago I took a bucket full of sweetpeas to a coffee morning in aid of the village hall.
They made £10 towards the funds. Everyone loves sweetpeas.
We harvested the onions but only managed to bring half home. They need to dry out a bit.
I harvested the lavender. It will dry nicely in our garden room, spread out in the sunshine.
Someone has been cobbing. Here is the evidence.
Maybe it will be finished by the time we return from Greece!!!?
The poppy heads are fantastic, even when the petals have blown away. Good for flower arrangers.
The lobelia is very beautiful in this range of colours.
The wild flowers are still going strong.
The bees love the sunflowers.
At last, a beautiful Comma butterfly, sunning itself on a dahlia leaf. The larval fruit plants are nettles and hops both of which are growing at the garden. There have been a lot more butterflies around, thank goodness.
I hope they are visiting the butterfly patch when I am not looking. There`s a lot of trust needed in gardening.
Other jobs done today are .....planting out the last 2 trays of Bellis daisies, cutting sweetpeas, disbudding dahlias, deadheading cornflowers and calendula, and planting the rest of the Romanesque and calabrese.
Forgot to say, we saw a wren in the garden for the first time and we heard the owl in the woods (daytime)
There are also swallows swooping overhead making the most of the many insects.
For great information about local birds and fantastic photos, visit Cliff Dean`s website
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