What's growing?

Flowers, flowers, flowers, here. Buy the veg at waitsores.

My rhubarb is rubbish this year only planting runners this year, lack of space and enthusiasm are the culprit.. funny though my raspberries seem to be doing really well..

I planted a number of Hollyhocks last year This year a lot of Foxgloves seem to be coming up in the pots where the hollyhocks were. The leaves look similar and the flowers grow up the stem in a similar manner. I have no idea how that happened.

I have some Gooseberries nearly ready for picking and some blueberries just ripening so I spent a day getting the small fruit cage over them so I can eat them and stop the birds getting their first.

Last years Swiss chard has just gone to seed and I have sown some more as well as some radishes.
I didn't buy the Gardeners delight bush tomatoes this year as it was so cold early on. Aldi saved the day last week by selling some cherry tomato plants in flower. I potted them on today and put them by the sunny south wall of my house. For some very odd reason I felt very happy just seeing them there.

Last year I had a bumper crop of gooseberries all ready for the picking, but the pigeons got there before me and had every last one. This year the fruit is all caged and I'm having the last laugh!!

My herb garden is glorious, apart from the slugs on the coriander, but the sage is managing to fill the gaps. We have no other harvestables (?) but everything else is going great guns - the benefits of a soggy summer, I suppose! My geums are spectacular!

All the flower borders are looking lovely. Harvesting rhubarb, mange-tout, lettuce, herbs and spinach. Potatoes are looking great and all the brassicas are doing really well. Broad beans won't be far off. Strawberries are late but nearly there as are gooseberries and redcurrants. Lots of fruit on the blueberries which I have to grow in pots of ericaceous compost and there should be plenty of blackberries over the fruit arch. Not sure about the tomatoes as they're very behind. Butternut squash and courgette plants are in and dwarf beans are hopefully going in tomorrow. Onions and garlic looking good.....Phew!

Blackcurrants are ripening nicely and raspberrries are looking good, although my blueberries haven't done very well this year. My broad beans are looking like a little forest, so I'm praying the dreaded black fly doesn't get them. My passiflora has fought a herculean battle with the slugs and snails and appears to be winning.

Weeds. They are growing.

And grass, what with sunshine and rain.

henetha we obviosly have similar gardens.

The Alchemilla (Lady's mantle) and perennial Geranium Macrorrhizum have gone completely mad. Popping up everywhere and threatening a takeover.
They do look pretty and I love the smell of the geranium leaves.
Apart from the chives,thyme and mint all other edibles are late and slow-tomatoes,strawberries and redcurrants.Given up on veg.-too many slugs and snails

DGS peas are in flower. The toms are covered in flower. Bedding plants are not too good this year.

Maniac Be ruthless with the Alchemilla chuck out all seedlings. There is no other choice. I don't know why anyone ever has to buy that plant there must be many gardeners looking for a good home for seedlings. It seeds everywhere and can take over. It is good ground cover though. The old leggier plants do need replacing.

I dread to think what's growing in my garden, as I've been away for the last two weeks.
Agree about the dreaded alchemilla mollis - as a novice gardener nearly twenty years ago, I bought a pot of it at a National Council for the Preservation of Garden Plants do at Blagdon Hall.
As if the bl**dy plant needed anyone to preserve it

jane I agree about Alchemillis but I do love to see the raindrops on the leaves.-gentle drizzle just now.
Another plant that should have a 'health warning' is Ajuga.I haven't got it in this garden. I bought one last week.May live to regret it -but it is a good ground cover and slug-resistant.

I could not grow Alchemilla in my previous garden but it is flourishing here!

Lots of perennials & shrubs in my new herbaceous bed looking good..all planted in November..except for the nigella, poppies, nastutium and calendula that the DGC sprinkled about in the Spring! The philadelphus is looking good and the roses are lovely too.
In the veg patch the sprouting broccoli won't sprout and was covered in caterpillars..now removed to compost!
Potatoes are in flower and spinach is being eaten almost daily as are the lettuce! Beans ready to be planted out and toms & peppers in flower!

Ajuga reptans purpurea, pretty but invasive. I pull it out in handfuls and it creeps back again!

Just had a 'to the death' struggle with a huge Pampas Grass. The remains if now in a large pot so it can't take over the universe again!

I have some lilies on their way. Lily Regale and African Queen. Fantastic perfume. Another favourite of mine is my dark blue Agapanthus It is a fairly low growing variety and does not need supporting.
Lots of peonies and Alstromeria out now. I am waiting for the Day lilies Hemerocallis in a month or so.

We've made a right cock-up with our tomatoes this year and they've been over-watered. Does anyone know if it's too late to buy more plants and put them into pots in the greenhouse? We'd had them in a growbag We're in Scotland, so growth may be a bit behind that south of the border.

Are Alstromeria easy to grow or do they need lots of attention? Never tried to grow them but i think they look great in a border.

I love alstromeria nanaej and you can't kill the damned things. I also love Chinese Lanterns and, in a rash moment, bought 4 and planted them around the garden. I pull them out whenever I spot them but still have a lovely show. This year we have some growing through some tall grasses which I expect will look fabulous but will be the devil to extricate. Can't grow ajuga for love or money

kitty - I'd willingly give you all my ajuga if I lived anywhere near you!

I gave the usual bedding plants a miss this year after last years disaster and bought on of those plastic containers from the Supermarket which you sprinkle all over the pot soil cover water and then wait 6 weeks and I have a lovely selection of mixed flowers in about 8 pots all looking good all for the princely sum of £8.50 so I'm very pleased this year.I bought 3 trays of fushia and some trailing plants for the baskets and they are all coming on a treat so things looking better this year indeed.