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Broad beans in flower

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:54:00 +0000

At last there are flowers on the broad bean plants!

Hoping for a larger crop than I got from the borlotti beans last year, 10 pods is not nearly enough.

Mystery (to me) flower

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:49:00 +0000

The garden next to us has a flowering cherry. Its close to the fence so we get the benefit of admiring it from our window.

I’ve notice recently another plant that seems to be growing up into the flowering cherry.

Its in flower now.

Does anyone know what it is?

UPDATE: the very helpful @josordoni @ailbhetweets and @theamplecook all tell me this is clematis montana, thank you for solving the mystery

A rose, by any other name

Fri, 28 May 2010 07:24:34 +0000

The roses are starting to open in the garden.

There are only a few so far but I’m looking forward to when the bush is covered in blooms in a few weeks.

Lovely isn’t it!

Quince blossom

Wed, 05 May 2010 01:29:00 +0000

The quince tree is in blossom. There seems to be a good amount. But so far the conversion rate of blossom to quinces has not been very spectacular year on year.

Year one: there was a quince, the squirrels stole it.

Year two: there were no quince. I guess that meant the squirrels couldn’t steal them.

Fingers crossed for better luck for this year.

Bay tree in flower

Sat, 01 May 2010 14:14:19 +0000

This morning while it was still sunny I took some pictures of the things springing to life in the garden.

This is my bay tree which has decided to flower.

Not sure if thats a good or a bad thing for a bay tree but it looks quite pretty.