June garden shots

This is a view from the far end of the garden back towards the house. I have the paddock behind me (not ours, sadly!), the greenhouse to my right and the rhubarb and gooseberry patch to my left. If you look carefully you can see I'm being watched by a chicken on a chair! (Clicking on the image will enlarge it - then click on the back button to return to the page). The empty ground on the right will have the remaining dwarf french beans and some courgettes in. There's about as much garden the other side of the hen-house. It has the bit of grass the chickens use (chicken field), a mini flower meadow, a pond, a circular stone patio surrounded by perennials and the herb bed just outside the back door.


This is a chili pepper from a pack of mixed seeds called Chili Shake. Be interesting to see how it turns out.

This is the first truss of my cross-bred tomatoes. I have several trusses on different plants but I think this is the most advanced.

Here's one of my Egremont Russet apples. The step-over trees were bought in the spring of last year. They flowered then but didn't set fruits, so it's exciting this year. There's another - related to a Cox which has also set well.

Little shot of part of the front garden. It's a woodland style of thing, only with a big self seeded poppy in. Well, why not?

Another foxglove. All these are self sown and I get quite a lot of variation. Some years there are lots of the traditional purple one. This year I have a lot of whites.

My favourite Iris.

And last but not at all least, my favourite kiddy-winkles. My grand-daughters who visited today for lunch.