Persistent rain all day. Looked at these photos of what I call my 'Shabby Cottage Garden' , plants which enjoy growing every-which-way whatever I do. A delight
Thanks Marion they are lovely. Bizzie B, lovely photos I like the purple flowers on the last photo, have you got a big garden too?. The weather at the moment in NW is cold, wet and very rainy, I can see yet more petals from my Jasmine blowing off , I want summer weather back
Lovely heuchera, Bizzie B. Do you have to water your blue hydrangea with sequestrene to keep it blue or do you have a patch of acid soil ? I have several corners in my garden which is mainly Bristol clay and quite alkaline. mostly under trees where I can successfully grow azaleas and rhododendrons as the soil is mildly acidic.
Still we have rain. There is a duckpond in the kitchen patio which i will have to wade through when i stops to pick plums, beans, tomatoes and peppers. The contorted hazel in the slate scree has suddenly shot out loads of straight shoots as it likes a lot of rain so that will be one wet pruning job. Forecast is for drier weather from eleven and a dry day tomorrow before the next batch of wet weather so it will be necessary to take advantage of the clear spells however wet the foliage is.
It stopped raining for a minute or two si now have salad container in fridge full of runner beans, lots of tomatoes and peppers oicked but it started to rain again before I got to the plums. I ate a handful of luscious blackberries which have loved the rain.
A very long awaited week off work and all I get is rain! I'm having an indoors day today but have taken a punt and started off some more dwarf beans, which I've put in the electric propagator to get them started off quickly. I'll give some to my mum and the rest are going on the allotment. I can cloche them if necessary. In the greenhouse, my monster beef tomatoes are taking their time to go red but it's happening at last! My scotch bonnet chillies are all doing very well in there too
tomorrow I shall be planting my potatoes for Christmas at the allotment. Again, I can cloche them if I need to. I am picking up a lean to greenhouse at the weekend for the plot so that'll make things easier for tomatoes next year I'm quite disappointed with my small ones this year so will go back to growing plum tomatoes next year
last weekend I was given a huge bag of plums by another plot holder, so I made lots of cake, gave lots away and am making wine with the rest
Yes, Fruitcake, the plum harvest is huge this year. The rain stopped for a little so i went up to bring in today's harvest from the garden and took some pics.
Oh what a glorious morning after such a dull day yesterday. The sun really is the enticer to get out and get working. The garden no doubt will be very wet still in among the plums and blackberries but the potato harvest should be possible in the raised beds in an hour or two as they drain quickly. The annuals I sowed late in Mr. Fothergill's trials for the Nation of Gardeners project are flowering well now.and the broad beans have flowers on. Summer is still out there.
Blue sky whoopee!!, forecast until evening, still wet at the moment but I'm getting my hair trimmed in an hour so when I come back, I'm going to get stuck in trimming our garden and tidying up where needed ho and plant my chrysanthemums , Marion your harvest looks delicious well done
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The pink flower is a Japanese anemone, flumpy1. It is its season now - late summer and autumn with the Michaelmas daisies.
Persistent rain all day. Looked at these photos of what I call my 'Shabby Cottage Garden' , plants which enjoy growing every-which-way whatever I do. A delight
Thanks Marion they are lovely. Bizzie B, lovely photos I like the purple flowers on the last photo, have you got a big garden too?. The weather at the moment in NW is cold, wet and very rainy, I can see yet more petals from my Jasmine blowing off
, I want summer weather back 
Lovely heuchera, Bizzie B. Do you have to water your blue hydrangea with sequestrene to keep it blue or do you have a patch of acid soil ? I have several corners in my garden which is mainly Bristol clay and quite alkaline. mostly under trees where I can successfully grow azaleas and rhododendrons as the soil is mildly acidic.
Still we have rain. There is a duckpond in the kitchen patio which i will have to wade through when i stops to pick plums, beans, tomatoes and peppers. The contorted hazel in the slate scree has suddenly shot out loads of straight shoots as it likes a lot of rain so that will be one wet pruning job. Forecast is for drier weather from eleven and a dry day tomorrow before the next batch of wet weather so it will be necessary to take advantage of the clear spells however wet the foliage is.
It stopped raining for a minute or two si now have salad container in fridge full of runner beans, lots of tomatoes and peppers oicked but it started to rain again before I got to the plums. I ate a handful of luscious blackberries which have loved the rain.
A very long awaited week off work and all I get is rain! I'm having an indoors day today but have taken a punt and started off some more dwarf beans, which I've put in the electric propagator to get them started off quickly. I'll give some to my mum and the rest are going on the allotment. I can cloche them if necessary. In the greenhouse, my monster beef tomatoes are taking their time to go red but it's happening at last! My scotch bonnet chillies are all doing very well in there too
tomorrow I shall be planting my potatoes for Christmas at the allotment. Again, I can cloche them if I need to. I am picking up a lean to greenhouse at the weekend for the plot so that'll make things easier for tomatoes next year
I'm quite disappointed with my small ones this year so will go back to growing plum tomatoes next year 
last weekend I was given a huge bag of plums by another plot holder, so I made lots of cake, gave lots away and am making wine with the rest
Yes, Fruitcake, the plum harvest is huge this year. The rain stopped for a little so i went up to bring in today's harvest from the garden and took some pics.
Oh what a glorious morning after such a dull day yesterday. The sun really is the enticer to get out and get working. The garden no doubt will be very wet still in among the plums and blackberries but the potato harvest should be possible in the raised beds in an hour or two as they drain quickly. The annuals I sowed late in Mr. Fothergill's trials for the Nation of Gardeners project are flowering well now.and the broad beans have flowers on. Summer is still out there.
Blue sky whoopee!!, forecast until evening, still wet at the moment but I'm getting my hair trimmed in an hour so when I come back, I'm going to get stuck in trimming our garden and tidying up where needed ho and plant my chrysanthemums
, Marion your harvest looks delicious well done 