More guest gardens

Cheers to Debby H for sending us some great pictures of her garden again. We’re loving the ornithogalum which has just started to flower. As she said “Hopefully this is the first of several” and we hope so too!
“The golden rod is amazing. It’s about 6 foot tall. The flowers are nearly ready now.” They are looking good. She’s been away in France for a few weeks and is just managing to get on top of the weeding. That’s it what with the weather we’ve been having, rain then sun, sun then rain. The weeds love that sort of weather they really do. “The slugs got all my rudbeckia that I planted out just before we left, the dahlia disappeared too.” Those slugs eh?
“On the other hand, the cosmos are doing well. The flowers seem larger than last year, perhaps it’s all the rain!” The cosmos do look nice, they’re an attractive flower. We’ve only grown the annual version a few years ago and they came up great and then we forgot to sow them the year after. Sadly they didn’t self seed.
“We planted phlox last spring. It didn’t do much last year but it’s starting to flower now.”
All things in garden are sadly not all rosey as the pear tree (above) is not very happy though and there doesn’t look like there’s any fruit coming on it this year sadly. As well as little black eggs on the tree, which she’s sprayed a few times, she also had to treat it for rust. We wonder what is up with the pear? The strawberry patch looks very healthy though!
Thanks again Debby and do keep sending us these updates as the garden is looking great.

A strange strawberry and a tune for a Wednesday

A few months ago we got some seeds (we think they were from Mr Fostergills) and they were a mixed strawberry (red and white). Turns out they are an alpine type strawberry and they are not too bad taste-wise. It was like having a white beetroot a few years ago, it was great but we’ve had some many red beetroots our brains couldn’t compute when it came to a white one!

And found on Bandcamp last night while researching a forthcoming shortwave mix we came across this great stripped down version from outa Darlington from the band Bubamara called Lu Core Meu Dub Version. An excellent tune!