Happy #flowersonfriday We’ve had the most beautiful sunny week, unfortunately I’ve been sharing my week with COVID! Feeling brighter today thank goodness, & the Nerine bulbs are flowering 🌿💕🙂💙☀️ #pinkfriday #pinkflowers #bloomscrolling

Yet more yummy cucumbers on the way 💛🥒🌼💛 I really must post our cucumber cake recipe! Blue sky this morning after rain all day yesterday 💦☀️ I hope you can enjoy your Sunday 🌿 #SundayYellow #yellowflowers #cucumber #gyo #bloomscrolling #kitchengarden

🌱Autumn beauties from Dave 🍁

Look what I found hiding yesterday as I started to tidy up the strawberry trough’s 🍓 A lot of things in the garden are having a second spurt now the rain has finally come. This has been the driest summer that I can remember! 💦💦💦 #SurpriseStrawberry #Homegrown #gyo #strawberries

🌱 Good morning🌞 #gardening #gardensky #bloomscrolling

I'm feeling overwhelmed 😆🌱 I have a few batches of oven dried tomatoes going and sauce on the stove! #vegetablegarden #garden

In today's #SixOnSaturday... a Begonia, a Rose, Oxalis, Toadflax, a Treble-bar moth (I think) & a Strawflower 🌱 onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/s...

This week, the Dahlias & Geraniums continue flowering, the blue Catananche are having a 2nd flush & the Cyclamens have returned 💙🌸💕🌿 #SixOnSaturday #bloomscrolling #autumnflowers

Bit of a clash going on! ❤️🩷 I love all colours mixed together but not sure about these two 🤔 Thought rather than moving one I’d add some yellow rudbeckia in with them. Any thoughts? #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling #clashingcolours #pinkfriday #pinkflowers

Always read the plant label! I didn’t realise that these orange begonias were trailing 🤣 Still, I placed a saucer across a big pot & popped the little pot on top & I’m quite pleased 🌿😀🧡❤️🧡❤️ #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #begonias #orangeflowers

Go little ladybird 🐞 no not onto the petal but right up the stalk to eat those yummy black-fly aphids on my dahlias 🌿🌸💕🐞 #insectthursday #wildlife #bloomscrollong #ladybird #dahlia

Dahlias, food for our eyes, food for the bees 🐝🐝🐝💕 We all love a dahlia! 🩷🐝🌸🐝💕 #savethebees #bees #Dahlia #dahlialove #pinkflowers

I normally direct sow my climbing beans on May Day, but this year I didn’t get the beans into the ground until 16th June! I started growing them in granny’s old dolly tub. They really are the easiest crop to grow, as well as peas! 🌿🫛💚 #beans #Homegrown #food #growyourown

A beautiful Comma butterfly, having a drink of raspberry juice off the leaf 🌿🦋🧡🌿💕 #wildlifewednesday #butterfly

The tomato harvest is seriously slowing now 🙁🍅 Tomatoes are the first food I ever grew - a long time ago! And still my favourite 🍅🍅🍅🌿 I will miss eating them every day, but look forward to the tomato sauce in the freezer through winter 😋 #tomatotuesday #tomatoes #Homegrown

Not sure there’s enough time left for this little aubergine/eggplant to mature & sadly I have to pick the beautiful flowers off to keep the energy going into the fruits. Look pretty though against the blue sky 🌿💙🌸🍆🌿 #growyourown #homegrown #aubergine #Eggplant

The sedums are colouring up nicely 💕 They fill a space in the border for most of the summer with their green, broccoli lookalike heads, finally opening to shades of pink in autumn. A very easy plant indeed! 💚💕💚 #magentamonday #bloomscrolling #pinkflowers #sedum

The plentiful blue skies in between the many showers makes them easier to live with, as we need them so badly! 💦☀️💙 The garden is looking much healthier as a result 🌿 Happy #YellowSunday 🌿💛🌿🌼🌿💛🌿 #yellowflowers #bloomscrolling

You can’t buy beetroot like this in the supermarket 💕🤍🧡 ‘Chioggia’ & ‘Burpees golden’ - delicious 😋 #growyourown #kitchengarden #homegrown #beetroot

These Sugarsnap peas are exactly what they say on the box! They are so sweet & no need for all that podding palaver, the hardest thing is getting them to the kitchen 😄🫛🫛🫛 #KutchenGarden #peas #Homegrown #growyourown

I’m quite pleased with how colourful this corner still looks. So many flowers came & went very quickly with the dryness, but the rain is helping to prolong these later flowers 🌿💕💛🌺🌿 #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling #pinkfriday #pinkflowers

Apple variety ‘Christmas pippin’ ripening nicely in the September sunshine. Only bred in 2010, this apple is delicious like a cox with lovely thin skin & of course, looks beautiful too🍎🍏🍎 #apples #Homegrown #growyourown #fruit

Asters in the sunshine 🌿💜☀️💜🌿 #TuesdayBlue #bloomscrolling

Blue sky this morning after lots of glorious rain most of yesterday 💦🙂💙☀️ Hover-fly on my begonias 💕🐝 for #MagentaMonday Did anyone see the blood moon last night? 🌒 #bloomscrolling #pinkflowers

Solidago canadensis or golden rods, being bent right over with the heavy rain 🌿💛💦💦💛🌿 Not a gardening day but great for the plants 💦💛🌿 #SundayYellow #yellowflowers #rain

Some lovely blue skies & sunshine mixed in with showers this week. Better for the garden 🪴 I wish you all a lovely weekend #sixonsaturday #bloomscrolling

Second flush of Jasmine 🌿🤍🌿 scenting the garden again. It does turn into a ‘very’ large plant reaching 9m if allowed, so it takes some trimming, but the perfume is so worth it 🤍🤍🤍 #FlowersOnFriday #whiteflowers #whitegarden

Take a last mouth watering look at the final 7 ‘Beth’ pears of 2025 🍐 My consolation is all the pear cake that’s now in my freezer 😋🍰 #pears #kitchengarden #growyourown #homegrown #homemade

I wish I could identify all the different species of bumblebee that visit the garden 🌿🌺🐝 They are as ever enjoying the sedums or Hylotelephium if you’ve managed to get your tongue around their newish name 😁 #InsectThursday #savethebees #bees

Just listening to how food stuffs affect your mood & mental health. Is this surprising? If I put rubbish fuel in my car, it would jump & spurt & not go properly. Same with food & your body. Shame we’ve moved away from a society that scratch cooks as the ‘norm’! 🥲🥒🍅 #cooking

Two little friends in the garden yesterday 🦋🐞 I accidentally nearly drowned the ladybird, but managed to rescue it in time 😊🐞🐞🐞 #wildlifewednesday #insects #mygarden #butterfly #ladybird

The September look of Michaelmas daisy ‘Patricia Ballard’ in amongst Persicaria & the dark leaves of Physocarpus. And it’s noticeably cooler in a morning 😬🌿💕🍂🌺 #BloomScrolling #Flowers #september

What would you make with this trug full? 🫑🍅🥒🌶️🧅 In our house it only means one thing….. Curry!!! 🍛 #curry #Homegrown #scratchcooking #kitchengarden #homemade #cooking #vegcurry #growyourown Recipe: walnutkitchengarden.co.uk?p=3745

The flowers of Phygelius remind me of Ken Dodd’s ‘diddy mens’ hats. Some of you may have to google this 😃🎩💕🌿💕 #magentamonday #pinkflowers #bloomscrolling

Ligularia ‘Desdemona’, for me is a must have plant for a shady spot. In early summer it creates a large clump 4-5ft across of enormous dark red leaves, a foot in diameter on red stems. Then late summer these clumps of orange yellow flowers 🌿💛🧡🌿 #SundayYellow #bloomscrolling

Pear & raspberry cake, recipe link below 🍐💕🍐🍰 This one was cooked in the microwave in 10 minutes, hence its pale colour. #Homegrown #homemade #baking #cake #gyo walnutkitchengarden.co.uk?p=2871

It’s been much more about harvesting & cooking the garden produce this week, but the flowers have perked up after the rain 💦 Roses, carnations, dahlia, penstemon, rudbeckia 🌿❤️🌸💛💕🌿 #sixonsaturday #bloomscrolling

My 7 tomato varieties of 2025 Orange sunshine (one the bees created for me), Brandywine, Green zebra, Sunchocola, Tigerella, Indigo rose & Rosella (my favourite) 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅 #tomatoes #tomato #homegrown

Phlox paniculata ‘bright eyes’ blooms much later than my other phlox & seems to be blooming longer despite the lack of water. Although we have had a good few downpours in the last 24hrs 🤗💦🌸💦💕🌿 #pinkflowers #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #pinkfriday

My latest back spasm is easing quicker than usual. Could it be connected to my chillies, with their capsaicin compound & its anti-inflammatory properties? They also help to reduce blood pressure, boost metabolism & are packed with antioxidants 🌶️🧡🌶️💜🌶️💛 An all round super-food! #superfood #chillies

It’s rained 💦😊☔️🤗💦 yesterday! Actual raindrops on Rudbeckia ‘Rudy fire’ 🌿🧡🤎🧡🤎🌿 I never thought I’d be so happy to have rain in the middle of a British summer 😂 #raindrops #rudbeckia #bloomscrolling

Pure & simple 🌿🤍🌿 This new begonia was heading for the white garden, but as it’s so dry down there it’s stayed in a pot 🪴 #Begonia #bloomscrolling #whiteflowers

Made to make your mouth water! 🌿🍐💦❤️🌿 #pears #pear #fruit #kitchengarden #Homegrown

Blue flowers, turn into blue beans, against a blue sky 🌿💙💙💙🌿 #TuesdayBlue Climbing bean ‘Blauhilde’ 🌿💙 #kitchengarden #homegrown #growyourown

Breakfast is served 💕💕💕💕💕 Picking a punnet is now a daily chore (poor me 😋). Happy bank holiday Monday! #MagentaMonday #bankholiday2025 #homegrown #raspberries #summerfruit #growyourown

Rudbeckia Laciniata is one of the few plants that doesn’t seem bothered by the lack of water 💦 Whilst other perennials by it look so sad with their droopy leaves, it’s still as tall (2m) covered in bee friendly yellow flowers 🌿💛🐝🌼🐝💛🌿 #sundayyellow #bloomscrolling

In today's Bank Holiday #SixOnSaturday ... Thunbergia, a Cornflower, a new garden ornament, a fragrant 'Friesia' Rose, a Strawflower & the mango scented 'Tropicana' Rose onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/s... 🌱

Late summer colour. Tubs looking good with fuchsia, geraniums and osteospermum; cosmos and roses; re flowering of an early clematis. Ripening apples in abundance this year 🍎🍏🌱🌹🌸 #SixOnSaturday

We’re going all pretty food photos for this weeks #sixonsaturday Chilli ‘buena mulata’, cucumber flowers, pear ‘Beth’, red chilli, bean flower ‘Blauhilde’ & aubergine flower 🌿💜🌶️💛🍐💜 #kitchengarden

Dessert pear ‘Beth’, utterly delicious! The skin is so thin you’d think it had been peeled & the flavour is heavenly 🍐😍 After posting this photo, I’ll be expecting a visit from a close (pear loving) relative 😁🍐🍐🍐 #pears #kitchengarden #fruit #Homegrown