THE NIGHTS ARE DRAWING IN

The world is getting too jungly?

We have veg and a few fruit - yellow courgettes, french beans, newish spuds from the ones that sprouted in the kitchen and I buried, Cavolo nero, kale, a slug ridden cauliflower plus some juicy plums and nearly ripe pears and damsons.

P been today and strimmed the flower meadow. Then I started to mow it but too damp and claggy so only did two thirds before I put my foot in a boggy bit over my shoe. Sylvia's lonely little oak tree actually has acorns.

R has been tidying away and the heaps by the wall are getting big. She is cutting back yet more of the alchemilla now it is over. The blackcurrants have had all wood older than two years removed.

Now Sunday and rain forecast tonight - which I learned about after I had watered the pots and veg! At least got most of the lawns mown - the sit-on only blocked up three times. Old plants cleared from the banking by the kitchen and R was in the pond again hoicking out plants. 

Some flowers -

One shrub we were given when we moved in was this hypericum and it sows itself all across the garden appearing suddenly from within existing shrubs. Its yellow flowers and glossy fruit have their own charm but I wish it was a little to less "wild".

The Magnolia grandiflora has been listening to R's threats to cut it down by flowering - a bit. It usually does so in August.

Elsewhere we have one calendula and the anthemis doing well.

And so to fruit, pears - one an interesting shape and plums, one being consumed by a butterfly - well it has found a hole made by a wasp and is sipping the sweet juices.

Enough - the white rosebay is in full seed - glorious -