Eggy

                          Passion flower now producing fruit.

Equinox

Turnip mash

Cosmos in blue

Bountiful

Phlowery

Bright & beautiful

Bean here

Pump it up

Cornripe

Bag it, freeze it

Autumnal

Boxing clever

Phlox paniculata

Costoluto

Tomato tree

Nearly there

Autumn gold

Rhubarb impersonator

More

In the box

Bright white

Green backstop

Dwarf kale, not as useful or productive as larger varieties, but a handy green backstop.

Glad all over

Autumn herald

        Nothing quite heralds the arrival of autumn like crocosmia.

Zingers

         Annual rudbeckia now providing great long-lasting flowers.

Plum time

Bake, fry & stew

Ideally, onions need to bake in the hot sun before storage, but this year's harvest will all be consumed within a few weeks anyway.

808 state

                   Echinacea in full bloom on the 8th of the 8th.

Heap good

A couple of pumpkin plants doing very well on last year's compost heap, which suits their insatiable appetite for nutrients.

Fiery red

Chilies not quite as fiery as last year, despite their appearance, possibly due to the soggy start to the month and a lack of sunshine.

French crop

    French beans cropping well, shared between plate and freezer.

Salad box

A foxy selfie

Peabeans

Shredded survivor

The beautiful variegated green leaves of this hosta were shredded by snails a few weeks ago, but not before the plant had garnered enough energy to produce flower spikes.

Verbascum densifloram

Origanum vulgare

Wild Marjoram supposedly prefers limestone and chalky soils, yet it seems perfectly happy on a heavy clay soil and has self-sown in abundance this year.

Pink bliss

Plumtreeooze

      Resin on the plum tree, rich in terpenes, sealing an old injury.

Leek chafer

                           Rose chafer beetle on a leek flower.

Daily pickings

Passiflora edulis

A transplanted passion flower vine, happy in a pot and looking to climb on anything to hand.

Late pea

Some of the pea crop has over matured and dried out, but they're easier to store like that and can be rehydrated in stews, or used as seed for later sowings.

Countdown tomato

     Not long now until the first hit. The leaves alone smell great.

Onions nearly done

Onions are swelling nicely, with regular watering in the final stages before the tops start dying back.

Vanilla whiff

The star jasmine's in bloom and giving off a delicate vanilla perfume every evening. It's in a pot, so outrageously thirsty, but as it's by the back door it can constantly ask for a drink.

Seedy intentions

Celery, if allowed to flower, provides a great source of interest for smaller flying insects. Later, when it sets seed, these can be harvested for the kitchen or left to self seed in the surrounding soil.

Helichrysum italicum

This Helichrysum, or curry plant, is a cutting from the original bush which was looking poorly a few years ago. Both are now doing fine thanks to the last two hot summers.