Flowers in the garden
With vegetables you get the best of both worlds. Something to eat at the end of the season and, before that, blooms as good as anything you might find in a cultivated garden.
The beans are now brightening up the patio with red flowers on the runners, and a delicate pinky purple on the French. The tomatoes are already starting to open tiny yellow blooms, the bramble is a riot of white petals (and already some green fruit) and the potatoes are budding well, so it won’t be long before they, too, are flowering outside the patio doors.
My favourites, though, remain the beans, which I have found the most interesting and curious veg of all those I am growing, right from the day I looked in the greenhouse one morning to discover that they had gone from nothing to 10cm tall overnight. They have continued their extraordinary rate of growth ever since.
French bean flowers
Runner bean flowers
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