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.