Out now

The hot weather's suited the echinacea well, but now the flowers are out, the sun's gone in.

Lettuce thin

Might be no need to thin out these lettuce seedlings if the slugs and snails get there first but the dry weather's kept their numbers down.

Tassel no hassle

The tassels are emerging from the end of the sweetcorn cobs as they begin to fatten up, aided by regular watering.

Traffic light toms

                         From green, through yellow, to red.

Underipe

A few underipe tomatoes, harvested early to ripen on the kitchen windowsill. Borlotti and french beans delicious and plentiful.

Toadflax

                                Linaria aka toadflax

Matthias de l'Obel

                                       Matthias de l'Obel

Glad all over

No fly zone

Promoted as being popular with insects, like last year nothing's flown near them.

Making a meal of it

Anethum graveolens

Timely

             Making an appearance at the same time as last year.

Running away

Pump it up

            A pumpkin starting its thirsty way towards maturity.

Mid bean

Brachyscome iberidifolia

Ixia

              Ixia, aka corn lily, struggling in the overgrowth.

Sunburst

From hundreds of seeds sown, many lost to mice, seedlings slugged, the first to make it through.

Centaurea cyanus

Helichrysum italicum

                                        Aka curry plant.

Runners up

The runner beans have reached the top of their supports and the first pods have set. A small amount of blackfly haven't been a problem.

Plenty

Legumes

         The last of the pea crop and the first of the broad beans.

Long bloom

 

Germination's tricky with these annual phlox, but the ones that have made it have started their long flowering season.

Fleshy drupe

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

Quick flash

A long time coming, over in a flash and a bit blousey, but lilies are always worth it, especially the evening scented varieties.

Swell pods

                          Main crop of peas ready to harvest.

For the bees

                      Leeks left to flower are beloved by bees.