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Between watering, weeding and feeding the garden demands a lot of attention at this time of the year. However, it’s also the time when you start to see the results of your efforts, especially when it comes to fruit and vegetables.

1. A flower spike on a hosta with a lovely bronze heuchera in the background.
2. I love the markings on this Dalmation Cream foxglove I bought recently and it already looks very much at home.
3. We harvested the first container of new potatoes (the variety is Rocket) and, as has become our custom, steamed them with garden mint, slathered them with butter and ate them in the garden. Not a huge yield but very tasty.

4. The first climbing French beans (the variety is Cobra) have made an appearance.
5. Not to be outdone, one of the courgettes has produced its first fruit, although it’s still small at the moment.
6. To get any raspberries at all this year was a surprise as they’ve been neglected for a couple of years and I didn’t cut down the old canes at the beginning of the year. Therefore these are fruiting on old wood and are hence quite small but tasty none the less. It proves there is still some vigour in them so I’ll be giving them more attention next year. (I can’t believe I’m already thinking about next year!)

Enjoy your garden or outside space this week.

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme hosted by The Propagator. If you’d like to join in you can find more details here. If you can find the time, do check out the posts by other participants.

Being able to use No Mow May as an excuse for not mowing the lawn will soon be a thing of the past. Not many wildflowers in evidence, unless you count thistles, just long grass. However, let’s turn to more positive things…

1. The ‘Chocolate Cherry’ tomatoes have survived the odd cold night in our unheated greenhouse and there are flowers developing on a couple of the plants.
2. The first signs of flowers on the ‘Cobra’ climbing French beans as well.
3. The pigeons have been wreaking havoc on the cherry tree and steadfastly refusing to fly off even when I’m right underneath them shouting expletives. I’m fighting back by placing mesh sleeves over some of the branches which have fruits developing. Pigeons, I will get some cherries this year!

4. What I at first thought were bindweed flowers poking through a rhododendron turned out to be this white rose. No idea what it is as it was already in the garden when we bought the house. We specialise in unknown rose varieties in this garden.
5. Golden marjoram is taking over one corner of what is planned to be a bed dedicated to herbs and Mediterranean plants. A purple sage is taking over the opposite corner. Nettles and other weeds are taking over the rest at the moment.
6. A hosta (I’ve forgotten which variety) whose leaves have been a bit nibbled but has managed to produce a couple of flower stalks.

Enjoy your garden or outside space this week.