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View fullsize Beautiful Gaura still going strong. Such a delicate flower and a good drought tolerant plant for these crazy dry times 🥵
View fullsize Dahlia 💗. Looking at the ring of yellow, pollen-heavy anthers on this one you can see why open centred varieties are so great for pollinators like bees. Sure the highly bred varieties look amazing, but as a general rule if you can’t see the a
View fullsize Seas of asters and magical sunshine today at Brockwell Park’s incredible walled garden. Laurie slept enough for me to get on with things and it was wonderful to be there 😊
View fullsize Harvesting pears today. They are so satisfyingly heavy and smoothe, and I love the way they hang down like Christmas baubles. Our tree was so laden many of the branches are touching the ground.
View fullsize Cook your tomato vines! A discovery for me but they have an amazing tomato smell when you cut them and that flavour infuses in if you throw them in when you cook tomatoes. Today’s lunch- roast garden tomato orzo. Delicious and from #thegreenr
View fullsize Cabbages finally planted out ready for spring and winter. Loving every minute of these last days of sunshine with warmth in the soil 🌞 I wish I had planted more brassicas. A few more weeks and the beds will be empty of tomatoes and courgettes and
View fullsize So pleased with this little Lewisia cotyledon. A gift from my dad which I will treasure. They’re a plant I’ve never really thought much about before but the flowers are amazing and these have been going all summer!
View fullsize Stopped at #ovalfarmersmarket this morning and couldn’t resist fresh oyster mushrooms from @icmushrooms . Cut this morning 😊 I can’t wait till dinner time!! #icmushrooms #freshmushrooms #itsautumn
View fullsize Beautiful Cosmos ‘Rubenza’ starts deep Carmine and slowly fades to a pink. Stunning 💗
View fullsize First day back to volunteering at a very windy Brockwell Park today. I can’t tell you how good it felt to be there again with NO GARDENING GLOVES ON! Other pregnant mums miss booze or salami or opinionated cheese but I missed the soil under my
View fullsize Cucumber flowers. I’m loving them-so bright and cheerful BUT can anyone help me with why I only have males? I’ve been wanting to hand pollinate but there are no females. Just 2 so far that both formed cucumbers early on but no more. Any s
View fullsize More #tomatotuesday just because... 🙄
View fullsize #tomatotuesday 🥳 I’m so happy! I’ve had 5 hours sleep but it’s my first morning back to proper gardening after the birth of little Laurie 3 weeks ago and I’m celebrating by stealing all the tomatoes before Arthur gets home f
View fullsize I love September.. the veg garden is turning into more and more of a jungle as everything grows into everything else. Here are tomatoes, Cobaea scandens and runner beans all mingling where their supports meet. Enjoy the weekend everyone!
View fullsize Hollyhock perfection
View fullsize This week’s flowers. Instead of cutting the amazing purple flowers off Cobaea scandens, I wait and take what’s left when the petals fall-they still look great. Also Cosmos ‘double click cranberry’ which I like in a vase but
View fullsize “Garden-akopita” is my new favourite garden recipe. Traditional spanakopita just uses spinach but I much prefer it with anything green I have in the garden. Kale or spring greens for texture, chard, rocket or mizuna for flavour and then
View fullsize Dahlia ‘Cafe au Lait’ looking beautiful. In our shady garden the dahlias arrive fashionably late but are so deeply glamorous it’s definitely still worth having them at the party 🍾🥂🍸 #dahlialove
View fullsize A brief snapshot of family chaos, Laurie’s second week of life, Arty washing up 👍🏼 and...FIRST CUCUMBER OF THE YEAR! Better late than never and still plenty of time for lots more!
View fullsize Pressing flowers!! 🌸. My last chance to capture the flowers from the garden at their best. 3 years ago I pressed hundreds of flowers and used them for our wedding decorations (I’ll find photos to follow), melted onto candles and on all the pl