Monthly Archives: August 2021

Six on Saturday – 28th August 2021

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There is a real feel of autumn in the air. So first this week in the garden is a lovely spider web – there were lots this morning.

  • Spider web

In the wildflower meadow, the late summer – autumn flowers are out – first devil’s bit scabious. I love the colour of this flower.

  • Devil’s bit scabious

Also in the meadow is knapweed. A great pollinator plant.

  • Common knapweed

Autumn of course brings fruit. We don’t have much this year (cold, May with frost) and the brambly apples have got scab – for the first time ever.

  • Scabby apple

Autumn also bring seeds heads – poppies being one of my favourite.

  • Poppy seed heads

Thankfully there is still some colour – here from snapdragons.

  • Snapdragon

Thank you to The Propagator for hosting Six on Saturday.

Six on Saturday – 21 August 2021

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The weather here has turned autumnal, but sunny weather is to return next week or so the weather men tell us.

A quick Six on Saturday this week. First soapwort which has got somewhat battered by the thunder showers.

  • Soapwort

Next are runner beans – they are not thriving this year. I think it may be mainly the weather (often quite cold) that is not suiting them.

  • Runner beans

Onions are also disappointing. The one hot week of weather we had sent a lot to seed early and they never got very big.

  • Onions drying

Cucumbers on the other hand are doing pretty good.

  • Cucumbers

While the wasps have some reason taken a fancy to the raspberries.

  • Wasps on raspberries

I was going to show you my caterpillar munched Brussel sprout plants but instead a carder bee picture to finish in a positive note!

  • Carder bee