First of the month - August

 the day - and the month - started off sunny, so we briefly went to the allotment and came back with a box of goodies - potatoes, rhubarb, a few raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries and even blackberries,

 tomatoes (probably the first of a glut)



french and runner beans

 a handful of peas

 courgettes (definitely well into a glut of these)








Back home for lunch - and the rain came down soaking everything and making the flowers look most bedraggled

 It may only be the first day of August but with blackberries ripening and Michaelmas daisies flowering Autumn seems only just round the corner

Surprise finds at the allotment

 Look what I found at the allotment today! I have some flowers growing among the fruit trees but no poppies - and certainly there aren't supposed to be flowers in the cabbage patch! 

It probably proves I haven't weeded as well as I should have.

It isn't really in the way though so I'll leave it to flower, then try to collect some seed.

And here's another surprise I found in the plastic greenhouse.

We thought all the grape buds there had been frosted in spring but chopping back the leaves today I found a couple of bunches still growing. Hopefully now with less competition from greenery, they'll swell and ripen

August in the Garden - flowers

Although we've had more rain recently, the garden still feels dry and tired.

lavender borders

Platycodon bud ready to open

It feels like the world's waiting for a late summer flush of flowers. For now though there are a few hidden here and there.

Rudbeckia

Scented pink rose

Curious combo of roses and rhubarb

Sweet peas

annual poppy

wild flower seed mix

candytuft

black hollyhocks

corn marigolds