Simon's Allotment

 Echium "Blue Bedder" - one of the bee's favourites. Summer stunner: Helenium "Sahin's Early Flowerer...

The most success I've had with planting plug plants in the meadow area of the orchard - and the one most popular with the bees - has bee...

What's been flowering for the bees and butterflies this month: Agastache foenicolium  Agastache foenicolium "Golden Jubilee...

So the solstice has been and gone and I can finally stop living off asparagus and leaf beet. Broad beans, peas, carrots and cabbage all comi...

Plenty of candy this month, here's what's flowering out on the plot: Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Astrantia major Blood Pink (Diant...

Looks like I'll be in for a bumper crop from the top fruit this year: apples, pears, plums and cherries all looking good. I've manag...

Well the equinox is here and I can get on with sowing some seeds. Whether I carry on with this blog is another matter, it seems to have fizz...

No shortage of fresh produce from the plot at this time of year. The peas are over but there's runner and climbing French beans, carrots...

New this year and all grown from seed. Echium plantanigium "Dwarf Blue Bedder" - the cultivated variety of the wild E. vul...

The scabious family is worth a mention of it's own as they're so good for attracting the bees and butterflies. Earlier in the summer...