My cake is low in sugar & eaten for breakfast so no excuse Ann 😋🍰
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My cake is low in sugar & eaten for breakfast so no excuse Ann 😋🍰
You’re welcome 🍰
The flowers of Phygelius remind me of Ken Dodd’s ‘diddy mens’ hats. Some of you may have to google this 😃🎩💕🌿💕 #magentamonday #pinkflowers #bloomscrolling
Ligularia ‘Desdemona’, for me is a must have plant for a shady spot. In early summer it creates a large clump 4-5ft across of enormous dark red leaves, a foot in diameter on red stems. Then late summer these clumps of orange yellow flowers 🌿💛🧡🌿 #SundayYellow #bloomscrolling
Pear & raspberry cake, recipe link below 🍐💕🍐🍰 This one was cooked in the microwave in 10 minutes, hence its pale colour. #Homegrown #homemade #baking #cake #gyo walnutkitchengarden.co.uk?p=2871
It’s a good start to water the garden 💦☔️😊
Thanks Joy, yes they are 🍅
It’s been much more about harvesting & cooking the garden produce this week, but the flowers have perked up after the rain 💦 Roses, carnations, dahlia, penstemon, rudbeckia 🌿❤️🌸💛💕🌿 #sixonsaturday #bloomscrolling
My 7 tomato varieties of 2025 Orange sunshine (one the bees created for me), Brandywine, Green zebra, Sunchocola, Tigerella, Indigo rose & Rosella (my favourite) 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅 #tomatoes #tomato #homegrown
Oh it did 😊😋
We’ve done quite well in the last 24hrs but it’ll take a lot more yet! Feel really sorry for farmers & we’ll all end up paying more for the poor harvest.
Thanks Ann.
It’ll take a while to soak in. Luckily we had more in the night 💦
Phlox paniculata ‘bright eyes’ blooms much later than my other phlox & seems to be blooming longer despite the lack of water. Although we have had a good few downpours in the last 24hrs 🤗💦🌸💦💕🌿 #pinkflowers #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #pinkfriday
My latest back spasm is easing quicker than usual. Could it be connected to my chillies, with their capsaicin compound & its anti-inflammatory properties? They also help to reduce blood pressure, boost metabolism & are packed with antioxidants 🌶️🧡🌶️💜🌶️💛 An all round super-food! #superfood #chillies
It’s rained 💦😊☔️🤗💦 yesterday! Actual raindrops on Rudbeckia ‘Rudy fire’ 🌿🧡🤎🧡🤎🌿 I never thought I’d be so happy to have rain in the middle of a British summer 😂 #raindrops #rudbeckia #bloomscrolling
Pure & simple 🌿🤍🌿 This new begonia was heading for the white garden, but as it’s so dry down there it’s stayed in a pot 🪴 #Begonia #bloomscrolling #whiteflowers
Made to make your mouth water! 🌿🍐💦❤️🌿 #pears #pear #fruit #kitchengarden #Homegrown
Blue flowers, turn into blue beans, against a blue sky 🌿💙💙💙🌿 #TuesdayBlue Climbing bean ‘Blauhilde’ 🌿💙 #kitchengarden #homegrown #growyourown
Clever 💙
How fantastic 🦋
They certainly do Andrea. I’ll bet you do 🌿
Breakfast is served 💕💕💕💕💕 Picking a punnet is now a daily chore (poor me 😋). Happy bank holiday Monday! #MagentaMonday #bankholiday2025 #homegrown #raspberries #summerfruit #growyourown
Rudbeckia Laciniata is one of the few plants that doesn’t seem bothered by the lack of water 💦 Whilst other perennials by it look so sad with their droopy leaves, it’s still as tall (2m) covered in bee friendly yellow flowers 🌿💛🐝🌼🐝💛🌿 #sundayyellow #bloomscrolling
In today's Bank Holiday #SixOnSaturday ... Thunbergia, a Cornflower, a new garden ornament, a fragrant 'Friesia' Rose, a Strawflower & the mango scented 'Tropicana' Rose onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/s... 🌱
Late summer colour. Tubs looking good with fuchsia, geraniums and osteospermum; cosmos and roses; re flowering of an early clematis. Ripening apples in abundance this year 🍎🍏🌱🌹🌸 #SixOnSaturday
We’re going all pretty food photos for this weeks #sixonsaturday Chilli ‘buena mulata’, cucumber flowers, pear ‘Beth’, red chilli, bean flower ‘Blauhilde’ & aubergine flower 🌿💜🌶️💛🍐💜 #kitchengarden
Dessert pear ‘Beth’, utterly delicious! The skin is so thin you’d think it had been peeled & the flavour is heavenly 🍐😍 After posting this photo, I’ll be expecting a visit from a close (pear loving) relative 😁🍐🍐🍐 #pears #kitchengarden #fruit #Homegrown
I’ve grown them for the first time this year. Delicious!
Excellent, thanks for that
My pink rescue dahlia is fully at home now, being watered & deadheaded regularly 💕🌿🌸🌿💕 #flowersonfriday #dahlia #dailydahlia #bloomscrolling #pinkfriday #pinkflowers
First time growing chill ‘Biquinho Red’. I handed one to the gardeners mate & just bit into mine, he looked at me in shock. It was a bit hotter than I expected but ok luckily 🥵🌶️ A gorgeous habernero flavour for those that like a milder chilli 🌶️ #kitchengarden #chillies #gyo #homegrown
How can those beautiful, sheer wings lift that furry little body? The bees are still enjoying my tithonia torch, but they are only half the height they normally grow to 🌿🧡🐝 #InsectThursday #bees #bloomscrolling
I finally harvested my first sweet pepper of the year & it was the largest I’ve ever grown! Giant orange tomatoes last week & giant orange peppers this week! 🧡🫑🧡🫑🧡 #kitchengarden #Homegrown #gyo #peppers #orangeveg #growyourown #greenhouse
Well we do have well drained soil, but it’s also acid 😁 just shows 💙
They are beautiful, but do they taste good? I love growing unusual tomatoes, but they have to pass the taste test 🍅😋
This is the first Small Copper photographed in the garden & it’s thanks to the keen eye of the ‘gardeners mate’. I have to admit that when he shouted me over, I said, “oh yes we’ve had them before”, looked closer & said, “back in a sec, just need my phone” 😁🦋 #WildlifeWednesday #butterflies
I don’t think you can get more blue than this salvia for #TuesdayBlue 🌿💙💙💙💙🌿 I grew it from seed about 5 yrs ago. It’s supposed to be tender & I always think it’s died, then suddenly this shocking blue appears & makes me happy 🌿💙😊 #Salvia #bloomscrolling #blueflowers
We are so lucky to live in an area with ponds, making us a destination for migrating geese. Hearing the first honking coming from the sky is a real thrill as they return, although maybe not so at 5am! We love them circling around us as we sit out 💙 #TuesdayBlue #geese #birds #bluesky
You just know how good these tasted after dinner tonight 🌿💕💕💕💕💕🌿 Grow your own… The wonderfully delicious, Raspberry ‘Polka’ 😋 #magentamonday #kitchengarden #growyourown #raspberry #raspberries
We’ve had so many bumblebees in the garden this year 🐝 I’ve tried from the beginning of planting the garden to have food available almost all year. They’re now enjoying the Sedums 🌿💕🐝💕🌿 #MagentaMonday #bees #wildlife
#MacroMonday No apologies for #SmallTortoiseshell spam from me, this perfect beauty was enjoying creeping thistles at Lakeside, #Windermere yesterday. So happy to see a much better year for them locally. @macrohour.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
What a fabulous surprise! I thought the Victoria plum hadn’t produced any fruit this year, but I spied a rotten one on the ground so had a good look & hey presto 😊🌿 The gardeners mate & I have just shared it, the flavour was out of this world 🩷🧡 #kitchengarden #plums
Thanks Joy, sometimes it works & sometimes it doesn’t 😃🌿
Pretty veg & seed head’s mixing it up with the late bloomers 🌿🧡🫑🌺💛🥒 #sixonsaturday #bloomscrolling #kitchengarden
Thank you Joy 💜🌿
I wish you could smell these Dianthus 🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿 I’ve got them in a pot on the patio & it’s incredible how much scent drifts around as we sit there. #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #pinkfriday #pinkflowers #flowers #scentedflowers
Took this last night but run out of time to post in time for #RoseWednesday 🌿💜🌿 A day late, a dollar short 😁 ‘Rhapsody in blue’ having a full on second flush 💜💜💜💜 #bloomscrolling
This Astrantia, I think ‘major rubra’, has never been happy where I put it. So, it now has a new home in the recently revamped hosta bed, & it’s rewarded me with a second flush 🌿🌺🌿 #RightPlantRightPlace #astrantia #bloomscrolling
'Compassion' has begun to bloom again #RoseWednesday 🌱
I’m pleased to report that we have as many ladybirds as ever in the garden, despite the heat 🐞☀️🌿 When I find them on a clean plant like this begonia, I allow them to walk onto my finger & I take them to the aphids 😊🐞 #wildlifewednesday #ladybirds #insects
I really thought this tomato was going to break my existing weight record, set a good few years ago by a ‘brandywine’ at 716g, but it’s 20g short! It was bought as ‘gourmansun’ last year but isn’t, so I’ve named it ‘orange sunshine’ & it’s delicious 🧡🙃🌿 #tomatotuesday #gyo
Evening in the garden, with long reaching shadows 🌿🌸💛💕🧡 I know the dryness is a worry but it’s such a treat being warm enough to sit out later in the day when all the jobs are done. #MagentaMonday #eveninginthegarden #bloomscrolling
Another poor plant saved from certain death at the store. All the plants were a sorry state, bone dry. This lovely Dahlia Dalina Maxi Starburst Pink was the best of the bunch & after a good drink, dead heading & some fresh compost looked much happier 🌿🌸💕🌸🌿 #rescueplant #dahlia #bloomscrolling
First year I’ve grown craspedia globosa, but not the last 💛🌿 This photo makes it look enormous but it’s only about 20mm Hope you enjoy whatever you’re doing on another beautiful day 🌿💛☀️💛🌿 #SundayYellow #yellowflowers #bloomscrolling
How to spice up a mild chicken curry. I had a sensible Buena Mulata chopped up in mine, hot but not too hot💜🌿 The ‘Gardeners mate’ (he’s just been upgraded from ‘under gardener’) had a whole Naga Yellow Blaze in his 🥵💛🔥 I mean, seriously! #chilli #chillies #Homegrown
Thank you 💐
We’re literally trying to escape the pot 🍆💜🌿 #RunawayAubergine #Homegrown #kitchengarden #aubergine #eggplant
We’ve had a really lovely weather week, how super for those holidaying in this country. Everywhere looks so much nicer in the sunshine ☀️ #sixonsaturday #bloomscrolling #flowers
What beautiful colours Graeme 🌸🤍
In today's #SixOnSaturday... Rosa 'Compassion,' a Gatekeeper butterfly enjoying the Mouse Garlic, Fuchsia 'Delta's Sara,' a Scabious with friend, the pinkification of the white Hydangea paniculata 'Vanille Fraise' & Buddleia 'Candy Little Ruby'🌱 onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2025/08/09/s...
I’ve only just realised I wasn’t following you on here Ann 😀 What I’m really passionate about is tomatoes, all the old heirloom varieties that come true from seed. I’d love a poly tunnel to grow masses 🍅🍅🍅
🌱 hi 💛❤️💚 #DailyDahlia #gardening #gardensky #Bloomscrolling
Another day, another dahlia! Here’s Daisy Duke for #dailydahlia have a lovely day al!l 🧡❤️💜 #mygarden #Gardening
This is a Greybird Grasshopper (Schistocerca nitens). It's in the Nymph stage the adult is much larger and will molt until it achieves its final form. In our garden on Colington Island NC (US). OM1 OM 90mm macro + MC20 1/250sec f7.1 no flash #macro #macroadditcts #wildlifephotography
The white garden has suffered in this summers heat. The walnut tree & holly hedge sucking up any moisture 🌳 Even the (tough as old boots) Japanese anemones are much smaller, but just as beautiful 🌿🤍🌿🤍🌿🤍🌿 #flowersonfriday #whiteflowers #whitegarden #bloomscrolling
I think this variegated chilli plant is so beautiful 💜 I saved seed last year from Purple Naga Jolokia (which is not variegated) so it’s either reverted or cross pollinated. Either way, I love it! 🌶️🌶️🌶️ #chilli #chillies #kitchengarden #growyourown
Quiet morning moments 😊🌾 Dierama (Angels fishing rods) are just as beautiful when they’ve gone to seed dancing gently in the breeze 🌾 I’m toying with starting to sell seeds. I’ll let you know what I decide. #flowersonfriday #seeds
🌱Hazy here from wildfires so here's a little brightness🧡💚🌞 #gardening #gardeningfeed #gardensky #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport
A hover-fly falling in love with Cupid's dart yesterday 🌿💙🐝💙🌿 #InsectThursday #insects #mygarden #blueflowers #bloomscrolling #wildlifegarden
Yesterday’s haul 🌿💜🍅🥒🌶️💛🌿 Even if you only grow herbs or chillies on your windowsill, 3 tomato plants in a bag or some beans in a pot, the flavour, satisfaction & pleasure are immense! 😋 #kitchengarden #Homegrown #growyourown
These are five tomato plants in pots against the south facing wall of our house. They are protected from most of the rain thanks to the overhanging roof above and get lots of sun. There’s a striped courgette growing in the pot in the front and a pumpkin in the pot in the back. They get watered daily
This nameless red rose that came with the house, has never looked so good 🌿❤️🌿🌹🌿❤️🌿 It obviously likes it hot & dry ☀️☀️☀️ #RoseWednesday #roses #BloomScrolling #secondflush
Cheers 🍐🍎🍏
It’s so true Ann. We pretend that we’re in charge 🤣
Me too 💜🧡💜🧡💜
Today’s favourite rose - Sir Clough - as close to a favourite favourite as I have #roses #myroses #gardening #mygarden
I’m not surprised Alison, he’s gorgeous! 💕😍
Last week’s garden diary. Feeling grateful 🙏 #gardenblog #blog walnutkitchengarden.co.uk?p=4909
Verbena bonariensis pops up all over the garden, sometimes I move her & sometimes I let her be 💜🌿 This time she decided to rock up next to Tithinia ‘torch’ 🧡🌿 #TuesdayBlue #verbena #bloomscrolling
I was a bit concerned about the fruit growing on the wall with the storm, but luckily it didn’t come to much here 🍏🍎🍐 I hope none of you had any damage. We’re currently eating apple ‘Discovery’, which tastes as good as it looks! 🍎🍎 #kitchengarden #Homegrown #apples #pears
The begonias I saved from last year have taken a while, but got there eventually! 🌿💕💕💕 #MagentaMonday Off to a new garden nursery today with a friend. If I don’t get drowned or blown away, hopefully I’ll share it with you tomorrow 🌿 #bloomscrolling
Thanks Daphne, that’s very kind.The flavour is obviously the most important thing but I love all the colours too.
‘Buena Mulata Are my favourites, the hottest are for the under gardener 🌶️
Anyone else got giant rhubarb this year? Please can we also take note of my exceedingly tidy greenhouse. Tidiest it’s been in years! 😇🌿 #kitchengarden #rhubarb #Homegrown
I love it when the chillies start to change colour, it really brings the greenhouse to life 🌿🌶️💛🌶️💜🌶️🌿 ‘Biquinho red’ ‘Naga Yellow Blaze’ ‘Naga Smooky Rainbow’ ‘Buena Mulata’ The others are hybrids of ‘Purple dream’ & ‘Jolokia’ #SevenOnSunday #chillies #greenhouse #chilli
Bit drizzly this morning but a perfect gardening day yesterday. Happy #SundayYellow 🌿💛🌼💛🌿 #YellowFlowers #YellowSunday #rudbeckia #bloomscrolling
No need, we have acid soil here. The village is full of magnolias & camellias. Blueberry heaven 🫐🫐🫐
I’ve been extremely happy with Polka 😋
After a decent amount of rain this week the garden is looking much fresher. Let’s hope the late flowers last a bit longer than the others this season 🌿💜🧡💕💛💜🌿 #sixonsaturday #bloom #bloomscrolling #flowers
I feel a baking day coming on 🌿❤️🫐❤️🫐❤️🌿 I’m imagining a lemon tart filled with these, but as I have no oven at the moment it’s going to have to be air-fryer or microwave. Suggestions? #baking #homegrown #homemade #kitchengarden
Crops for impatient gardens in between the slower crops 👍 hope you enjoyed your salad 🥗
How fantastic, we’ve only ever had one in the garden years ago 😕
Welcome to August! Considering that Crocosmia are native to southern & eastern Africa, for some reason they always make me think of South America 🌿🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡🌿 #FlowerOnFriday #bloomscrolling #crocosmia #orangeflowers #flowers
He upgraded from garden apprentice when I broke my back last year 🤣
The tomatoes have settled into a steady flow at the moment 🍅🌿 The under gardener is happily pickling his mini cucumbers 🥒 #tomatoes #Cucumber #homegrown #kitchengarden #growyourown #growyourownfood #harvest
Dead heading does make a big difference to prolonging flowering, unfortunately I’m not always that good at it! This year though my sister-in-law has been encouraging me to deadhead more, especially this Coreopsis plant. The bees are very grateful to her 🌿💛🐝 #InsectThursday #family #bees #deadheading
12 months ago today, I fell & broke my back. Luckily it was the best kind of break (apparently) & I made a full recovery. It did however make me realise how in a split second your life can be turned upside down! Make the most of everyday, you never know what’s around the corner…. #thankful
And this is what homegrown courgette & blueberry cake looks like 🍰🥒🫐 I make cake specifically for breakfast, low in sugar & with nuts for protein. Makes me want to get out of bed. This is a link to my cherry & courgette cake recipe walnutkitchengarden.co.uk?p=2549 #recipe #cake #scratchcooking
Funnily enough, mine are almost blooming. It’s been a funny year!