Love the Turkish Sage?? My first year growing it in the garden here so no flowers yet!
It’s the only thing in the pics that’s not a self-set, and seems to be tuff as old Bob - struggling for light against faster-growers and surviving the endless streams of chemicals the adjacent farmland is poisoned with. It should grow even better where you are TBH, tho’ your winter temps will go a few degrees lower based on experience of the 'Swolleds (y)
Hollyhocks are out in force, grow like a weed here. Job this week to put up the seedlings from the patio/gravel to move into other parts of the garden!
Quite a few gaps around now where the self seeding annuals (many variety of poppies, nigella/love-in-a-mist and feddleneck) have all finished so it’s looking a bit messy…
We only have a few, but Hel is quite pleased the 8’ 6" one by our gate.
I’ve tried seeding them with no luck but will happily self seed in our driveway, patio and gravel areas 
We used to have a few clumps of hollyhocks but they seem to have disappeared.
I love houseplants but my husbandry record has been meh - usually over/under watering them to death 
I bought this begonia because it had lovely coloured foliage - green leaves with a red underside and silver strakes which literally look like they’ve been painted on.
To my utter astonishment, it’s started sprouting pink flowers 
The tomatoes and chillies are doing great.
We will now go over to NI like we do every year and come back to an emphatically dead garden.
Why do I forget this every year? Optimism I guess.
The wife ordered four on Saturday. Due to be delivered tomorrow I think.
Great minds etc.
Decent haul of raspberries from our small patch just now. We’ve had quite a lot so far & there are more coming. Damp spring followed by much sun I guess. The apples & pears look promising too.
They look more orange under this kitchen lighting. They’re a deeper red in reality
