vAs people have time to look at pretty pictures on the weekends (or will just ignore these posts because they have better things to do during the weekend...can't blame them!) I decided to post some recent pics of the garden as I don't think I share the prettier side often enough.
This is during a time when I
had time and get my artsy pics on. (Click to enlarge pics btw, I kept most of them at medium for easier loading, but they're obviously better when expanded)
Surprise! I left a daikon radish in the ground too long and it flowered!
Unexpectedly pretty purple geranium-like looking flowers to me
The everbearing strawberries have all been in full bloom and looking healthier than before. Many are starting to bear fruit, but it will take a while before they go from this:
... to luscious and red. This one looks like it's got a bonnet on and has fingers to its lips in thought.
Even the mache has cute little flowers, tiny ones that I am sure hoverflies will like.
Some waxy broccoli holding onto a drop of water
Sweet, sweet sugar pea! It's relatively hot, but I suppose for their cool steeple shaped flowers and nitrogen fixing properties even not get a good crop is fine (I started them a bit late too anyways)
Sunny mustard flowers. Look like little butterflies.
The salad burnet, which is doing AMAZINGLY well from the winter into this weather is flowering for me for the first time. Meaning: I need to cut it back hard and as I don't think I will be using this like a mad woman the flowers will probably have to go because it makes the leaves tough (like they sort of are now... probably a good idea to split this baby too. It's big and beautiful!)
My happy columbine! Love these unusual flowers!
Closeup: (each flower bud just prior to blooming looks like an alien space ship or a squid or octopus!
A whole bunch of them together looks like a school of them swimming in an ocean!)
Finally, for this last part I leave you with a hyacinth bean just emerging:
