A happy thread - post what you’ve picked!

I picked two tomatoes. I can't take a photo because we ate the little beauties!

I took my Mum aged 82 and my granddaughter aged 5 to the local sunflower farm and they chose a bunch each. Lovely memories made ?

One of the neighbours at the allotment split their dahlia bulbs early in the season and gave me some. I had no idea what colour they were until they bloomed this week in a corner of my veggie plot ….surrounded by leeks, beetroot and carrots.

Grammaretto

Shinamae if your garden is particularly dry it might be a good idea to grown drought loving plants. I was at the botanic gardens in Cambridge not long ago and there they have embraced the lack of water and extreme heat by avoiding plants which require much water. They have a truly beautiful display.
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/high-temperature-recordings-and-the-impact-of-hot-weather-at-cambridge-university-botanic-garden/

Thank you….?

Casdon

For*Shinamae*. These are all easy to grow perennials, great for cutting and are drought tolerant and hardy.
In order of the photos:
Verbena bonariensis
Alchemilla mollis (holds the rain on the leaves, so pretty even when it’s not flowerings)
Scabious (two colours here)

Thank you…?

My nose !

Sweet peas; perennial & annual.

Hydrangeas coming into their own now, love them!

I’ll be picking up poo when I walk the dog later.
Promise I’ll not post photos though ?

Don't pick many flowers from the garden. Prefer to see them outside. Front garden full of colour at the moment

I picked these two up today from a friend of a friend of a friend.

Not flowers and not picked in the garden, I admit, but they are certainly making us happy, after a year without any cats.

I don’t have much flowering other than courgettes and peas at the moment but for the jubilee street party we were asked to bring a jam jar of garden flowers and this was my offering. At the end of the day I went out to bring mine back in to the house and someone had walked off with it. Happily I had taken a picture.

And here’s my everlasting sweet peas, no effort at all except to tie them in as they are rampant, and chop them back to ground level late autumn,
I also highly recommend achillea, there are lots of different colours and also pretty ferny leaves and good for cutting.

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For*Shinamae*. These are all easy to grow perennials, great for cutting and are drought tolerant and hardy.
In order of the photos:
Verbena bonariensis
Alchemilla mollis (holds the rain on the leaves, so pretty even when it’s not flowerings)
Scabious (two colours here)

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Mine are in the garden too for the butterflies & bees. Unfortunately hardly any this year.

Strawberries Raspberries runner beans parsley chives so far. I don't pick garden flowers just buy from the shop.

I love your flowers for DH's funeral grandMattie. So very special.
My DH died at the end of November so we used a Florist!

Not me but my grandaughter picked and ate these strawberries ?

Shinamae if your garden is particularly dry it might be a good idea to grown drought loving plants. I was at the botanic gardens in Cambridge not long ago and there they have embraced the lack of water and extreme heat by avoiding plants which require much water. They have a truly beautiful display.
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/high-temperature-recordings-and-the-impact-of-hot-weather-at-cambridge-university-botanic-garden/

Thank you Aldom.
I don't pick all the flowers, just a couple from each clump so that I can enjoy them indoors and close up as well as outside.
I have the job of putting fresh flowers on the tables every Saturday at our community cafe and love the changing seasons in the garden.
Today it was everlasting pea, lavender, poppy heads, one or two roses but they are mostly over now, geraniums, (pelargoniums) marigolds, honeysuckle, phlox (as photo), and white campion. I was spoiled for choice.

Dahlias are beautiful right now.

Love flowers but rarely pick them for the house. ?

I don't pick the flowers but I picked these to photograph

I prefer to see flowers growing...I never pick them. I smile when I water all my pots ?

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Flowers for DH funeral a couple of weeks ago, and plums from my little tree about to be picked.