Garden Midsummer 2014

There are two albums. The first is for flowers and shrubs. The second is for vegetables. Where I know the common or local names for plants I've put them.

Flowers and Shrubs Album

Type of borage ?

Borage

Verbena

Nemesia

Fuscia

Origeron profusion

Rue flowers

Lavender

Mullein (verebascum) - little or no caterpillar damage this year for the first time

Sweet William - bought in as plants and great value

Rock rose - cistus ?

Viper's bugloss

Purple toad flax - springs up everywhere, loved by bees and hover flies

Lavaterea - springs up everywhere

White toad flax

Bergamot - grown from seed - two years old.

A succulent

Curry plants - from cuttings

Lavatera again

And with Red Admiral

Sorbus - grown from seed

Hypericum perforatum - St John's wort

Sage - from seed

Lamb's ear - Stachys byzantina native to Turkey, Armenia, and Iran - self-seeded, loves the brick walls and v. drought tolerant

Berberis

Privet blossom - the evergreen one

That hymalayan plant - has self-seeded and spreads very easily

European Holly

My wild oats - brought in by Wood Pigeon

Bocking Comfrey from Kings Seed (excellent seedspeople!!)

A big nightshade that comes back each year

Self-seededLove-in-the-mist

Dug out so much root of this stuff - Acunthus - but have let it come back

Lovely delicate fuscia

White geranium

Ped Geranium

Shade and chalk loving plant but slow to grow

Another delicate white Geranium

Our big ground cover geranium that is very hardy, comes back well after clipping and flowers again

Centauri Montana - or Perennial Cornflower - from mountain zones in Southern Europe.

Everlasting sweetpea

Hostas in pots

Self-seeded from Geranium from last year's planting

Emergent Self-seeded from Geranium from last year's planting

Lots appeared on the bank last year

Bronze fennel

Cherry pie plant ?

Hebe

Pink oxalis

Aquilegia - flowers are long gone but this one has nice coloured foliage

Succulent from limestone cliffs at Autoire in the Lot, France

Pond plant blosson

Mignonette - loves pure chalk

Dunno

Dunno

Martin and Jennifer's plant - as I know it

Martin and Jennifer's plant - as I know it

From local nursery

Mark's plant - an iris?

Senecio

Marsh mallow - sown from seed and lives on year after year

Native flag - sometimes called beff plant becasue of the foliage's strong smell

Lady's bedstraw - from seed

A type of water-repellent euphoribia? - came with garden

Marjoram - braodcast seed

Karen and John's lilac - a miniature

Groundcover

Late wisteria blossom

Butterfly hydrangea?

Butterfly hydrangea?

Butterfly hydrangea?

Poppy

Poppy

Vegetable Album

Red lettuce

Webb's lettuce

Sweet potato from BBQ Sale - 'kumara' in Maori

Runner bean blossom

Black fly finally arrived on the artichokes in late June - very late

Potatoes - first, seconds and maincrop - Pentalnd Javelin, Charlotte and King Ted

Late broad beans - Witkiim Mahor or Masterpiece Longpod - from Kings Seed

Self-seeded potatoes from last year storming away.

Eric's cliffside greenhouse restored - or should that be 'rebuilt' - using original glass and bitso of wrecked yacht and skip finds.

Squash patch - Cha Cha, a summer squash and my favourite, Golden Hubbard - big, orange, great intense flavour and flesh and keep until March. Vastly superior to bloody pumpkins.

The bean curve. First planting was patched up with car-boot plants. Purple French climbers had particularly bad geremination.

Vine from cutting. Grows about an inch a year on the chalk bank.

Fig from cutting. In pure chalk.

Trying the grafted tomoato plants around these days. Four quid a pop but they do come early and fruit heavy.

Second sowing of dwarf Frenchies after first lot failed to show.

Beets for The Principal.

Leek plants coming on. Second sowing done due to poor germination.

Ridge cucumber - the burpless one - take a while to get going outside but prolific when they do.

An outdoor tomato that supposed to do well against blight

Flowers of Palla Rossa chicory gone to seed. Pretty though.

Zuke flower.

Sunburst 'custard pie' summer squash. Absolutely delicious.

Turkish brown fig.

Rusty garlic from Isle of Wight seed and early autumn planting.

Japanese autumn onion sets got big this year.

Lone apple on the rees growing on chalk.

Wild strawberries

Only frenchie from first sowing to make it this year.