Sunday, December 11, 2011

Summer bounty...

Having planted an almost exclusively native garden by choice, I encourage wildflowers to colonise my vegetable garden. At present, broad beans, snow peas, lettuce, radishes, carrots, courgettes, strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, chives, parsley and corn are happily co-existing with a medley of poppies, foxgloves, columbines (just past flowering), hollyhocks, marigolds, delphiniums, pansies, love-in-the-mist... I enjoy the impossible profusion - the transformation from winter bare to summer glut!






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6 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 11, 2011 at 3:29 PM

    It's breathtakingly beautiful. I can see the fairies dancing and a goblin or two lurking. :)

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  2. Pukeko GDecember 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM

    A plant plethora .. super time of year and this season has been such a good growing one. Are the chooks getting the strawbs like at our place ?

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  3. Jane RobertsonDecember 14, 2011 at 4:56 AM

    The veggie garden (including the strawbs) is netted off (tho you can't tell on account of all the extraneous growth!). The netting was essential because of the possums who destroyed my veggies in the first year :-(

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  4. dkmDecember 29, 2011 at 4:51 AM

    Love in the mist---impossible profusion---summer glut---all of it a lovely imagining in the midst of our winter---what are courgettes?

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  5. Jane RobertsonDecember 30, 2011 at 3:18 PM

    Courgettes = zucchini

    Do you know zucchini Deb? If not I will take a photo :-)

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  6. dkmDecember 30, 2011 at 3:59 PM

    fancy name for something as ordinary as a zucchini :-)

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