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.

Pink rocket

Geese not required

Metamorphosis

        First of the year's tadpoles contemplating life as a frog.

Cloth of gold

 

Cucurbita pepo

Courgettes in flower. Waiting for the first fruit to form. Watering copiously and feeding with comfrey brew.

Floral celery

      Last year's celery left to flower and seed attracts many insects.

Brodacea

           Brodacea (and carnations) thriving in the hot weather.

Midsummer black

Midsummer pink

Green shield

                                                                 Palomena prasina

Tayberry

 

A cross between a raspberry and a blackberry, fruits before both.

Open the pod doors

Deploy nets

The allotment cat has only been working part-time and mice have been taking unripe strawberries and storing them at the base of raspberry bushes. Pigeons have a sweet tooth too, so nets and wire frames have been deployed. Still enough left for a human to harvest a kilo to make two jars of jam, with the promise of more to come.

A hoya, again

First of the mohicans

Hot dish

Get yer knobs out!

                    Celeriac seedlings, aka 'knob celery' (?!)

Trachelospermum jasminoides