Aucuba Japonica

Looking a bit droopy after -5C last night

Broad Beans sprouting

Variety=Red Epicure
Sown: 15 Oct 2012

About 1/3 of my Physalis (Cape Gooseberry) crop

Cyclamen Coum

Cuckoo Pint

Japanese Anemone

Bee and Hollyhock

Monkshood

Alpine Strawberries

The seed packet says plants produce a mix of red and white fruit

Japanese Anemone

budding

Tayberry leaves eaten

Beaverlodge 6808 Slicer Tomato,Organic

Also nearly ready

Tomato 'Red Alert" nearly ready

--
Steve

Fuchsia

The Echium Bed

At the rear, the "Snow Tower" and similar from careful indoor sowing
this year. Nearer the camera are E pininana x wildprettii self-seeded
plants that may grow into purple flowered giants next summer

Lilium Regale

Just started blooming

Ashmeads Kernel

One of the few fruit that set this year

Gooseberries

Will be ready soon

Wallflower seedlings...

...less than a week old

Tomato 'Red Alert' setting fruit

First Courgette of the season forming

Note slug damage to some of the stems

First ever Hollyhock!

Seed sown about 3 years ago

Creeping Thyme

Gaillardia Arizona Sun

A dwarf Gailardia

Echium Russicum

This is a medium sized hardy perennial Echium with red flowers. Grown
from seed - about 3 years old now.

First ripe Tayberry of the season

Echium vulgare Dwarf Hybrids

Dianthus Deltoides 'Flashing Light'

Sea Kale (Crambe Maritima)

In full flower. This plant wasn't forced this year.

Lily Beetles!

On my lilies :-( And making more of the same by the look of it!

Alpine Strawberry plants

New growth and blossom

Blossom on the Ashmead's Kernel

Lilium Regale

Broad Beans - Red Epicure

The plants in the foreground were sown in the Spring. The taller ones
were from last Autumn
--
Steve

Shallot plant

Aucuba Japonica

...showing fresh growth

Broad Beans and ladybird

This ladybird is in position ready to scoop up the black fly that will
probably infest the Broad Beans soon. Hooray!

Blueberries in flower

Ground level tulip

First season for these tulips. Didn't reallise the flowers would be so
low down. More used to long-necked tulips

Hail storm

Echium 'Snow Tower'

seedling

Echium Pininana

Seedling

Courgette 'Tuscany'

Seedling is less than 2 weeks old!

Blueberry

... in flower.

Lungwort

Broad Bean

.. plants in flower.

Sea Kale

Unblanched. I'm giving this one a year off.

Tayberry plant shoots

Spirea

Variegated Sorrel

Puschkinia

Variegated Hydrangea

Wallflower