High summer

You're right, you have been busy !
The plums look good, are they sweet ?

Those pies of Paulines sound yummy too, i adore blackberry and apples pies and crumbles .... you have the address BJ !!!!!

you have been kept going, and like louise said the pies sound yummy, are you taking orders lol

Busy busy.

Biting chickens - how horrible :o( I couldn't go near them I'm afraid !
I like your cyclamen. Do they come back every year ?

Hywel.
Yes the cyclamen are hardy the one shown would have seeded there from ones in a near by border, there are quite a few growing like that.I have to avoid cutting the grass short when they are dormant otherwise the tubers would be chopped off.

I've always grown them in tubs but they always die. Maybe I'll try some in the ground. I might have better success.

Hywel
you say you grow them in tubs do you buy them in flower in the garden ctrs if so they are not the same although similar in size they are not reliably hardy they are Cyclamen Persicum Hybrid what I am growing in the picture is Cyclamen hederifolium this fully hardy but takes about three years to flower from seed then carrys on year after year you leave them in the same place if possible under the edge of shrubs is idea.there is some seed i can send you if you wish and the P.O can manage not to loose it Louise1 has been waiting nearly 3 weeks for her packaage and we only live 30 miles apart!!

I had some hederifolium but I think they got killed last winter in that terrible cold we had. Thank you. I wouldn't mind some seeds. I'll send my address.

What a lovely and fruitful garden you've got:-)

Thank you Bornagain it all comes at once they used to call it harvest time, although my blackberrys are a cultivated var the harvest of the wild blackberry around me is more than people will be able to pick I have not seen so many for years I sample them from different bushes when I am walking my dog every one tastes different.

Sounds idyllic Bjs:-)