My friends the birds told me this morning it was time to harvest my conference pears so i did and took some to two of my neighbours who are now up my garden picking plums to make jam as my freezer is almost full and i still have a huge crop of runner beans to see to.
I will do that Marion, when it ever stops raining it's not stopped today, just been looking at your lovely photos, I bet you could feed the hole neighborhood with them pears , your yellow roses are coming on now, are they sunflowers in the background?
Rudbeckias from a pkt of seed, flumpy1. Sorry about the repeat pictures. my laptop was playing up and switched off and i thought the pics were lost so repeated some. I hate food to be wasted so what I cannot eat or preserve in some way I give away. I have to start tackling the apples next.
Five fine days forecast for Bristol so hoping to get started on planting my thousands of bulbs. One of the neighbours is picking the blackberries and fallen apples to make jelly so that is a great help. The scaffolding is going up next tuesday on the roofers are coming on Wednesday. I will start taking in the tender perennials one or two at a time now into the conservatory so they will be all safely housed by the time the frost comes. Eight exhausted tomato plants now out of their pots and i am still bringing in a bowlful of ripe ones every morning. I gave a neighbour my bean picking this morning of 12oz - i have to weigh them to get the yield for Mr. Fothergills trials. The freezer is almost full. Busy time of year. I do have a day out on a garden visit trip on the 14th. it will be super to relax in the coach.
My policy of planting lots of trees and shrubs in my garden to combat city pollution has paid off. I have fresh lichen growing on the stone sundial even though I am barely a mile from the M5 and traffic is nonstop along the dual carriageway to Bristol.
Marion, lovely pictures again, I like your sun dial, we live about a mile away from a busy motorway too, and live on the main road, but it doesn't affect our plants thank goodness, well this morning the sun is shining and my last day Of my holiday, if the lawn is dry later I will give it a trim then relax and enjoy the garden for a change
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My friends the birds told me this morning it was time to harvest my conference pears so i did and took some to two of my neighbours who are now up my garden picking plums to make jam as my freezer is almost full and i still have a huge crop of runner beans to see to.
The garden is still full of colour.
Still lots of lovely colour in the flower garden.
Looking very lovely still Marion
my next door neighbours tree is chock full of pears that they aren't going to do anything with, so next time I see them I'm going to ask them for some
I will do that Marion, when it ever stops raining
it's not stopped today, just been looking at your lovely photos, I bet you could feed the hole neighborhood with them pears 
, your yellow roses are coming on now, are they sunflowers in the background?
Rudbeckias from a pkt of seed, flumpy1. Sorry about the repeat pictures. my laptop was playing up and switched off and i thought the pics were lost so repeated some. I hate food to be wasted so what I cannot eat or preserve in some way I give away. I have to start tackling the apples next.
Five fine days forecast for Bristol so hoping to get started on planting my thousands of bulbs. One of the neighbours is picking the blackberries and fallen apples to make jelly so that is a great help. The scaffolding is going up next tuesday on the roofers are coming on Wednesday. I will start taking in the tender perennials one or two at a time now into the conservatory so they will be all safely housed by the time the frost comes. Eight exhausted tomato plants now out of their pots and i am still bringing in a bowlful of ripe ones every morning. I gave a neighbour my bean picking this morning of 12oz - i have to weigh them to get the yield for Mr. Fothergills trials. The freezer is almost full. Busy time of year. I do have a day out on a garden visit trip on the 14th. it will be super to relax in the coach.
My policy of planting lots of trees and shrubs in my garden to combat city pollution has paid off. I have fresh lichen growing on the stone sundial even though I am barely a mile from the M5 and traffic is nonstop along the dual carriageway to Bristol.
Some of my plants like the polyanthus and pieris think it is spring but the phygelius is flowering at its normal time.
Marion, lovely pictures again, I like your sun dial, we live about a mile away from a busy motorway too, and live on the main road, but it doesn't affect our plants thank goodness, well this morning the sun is shining and my last day Of my holiday, if the lawn is dry later I will give it a trim then relax and enjoy the garden for a change