Sambucus nigra cultivars “Samyl” and “Samnor” – Ripe elderberries were impossible here until these new Danish cultivars arrived…ripe even in a bad summer!
Otherwise: Aralia cordata (Udo) and Aralia californica berries ready to harvest for trading seed…..
This morning at 7 am
Siberian Nutcrackers are busy again in the garden this morning collecting hazelnuts and flying past with their pouches full to store them in the forest for the winter..
This is about the total yield of my runner beans this cool summer, but the first garlic (Alexandra) looks promising!
Well, I’m flattered that my book was even reviewed in Nigel Chaffey’s veritable Annals of Botany blog, which I’ve followed for some years! Over the moon it should be such a good review, thoughtful and humorous, the best yet?:
http://aobblog.com/2015/09/80-shades-of-plants
Looking down from the bedroom balcony on to a bed I know as “SSHB” (south side house bed, of course!). Here we see Akebia quinata attempting it’s world take over….but my Kiwi (sowed from a shop bought fruit some 15 years ago) refuses to be beaten and just manages to thrust a few leaves above the Akebia. You can also see flowering runner bean…really too late this year after last summer’s bumper crop…and perennial buckwheat…and flowering skirret…and my Amphicarpaea (hog peanut) is under that lot (need to help it a bit more next year…
There’s no better gift than a few onions:
Allium cernuum / Nodding onion / Chicago Onion / Prærieløk
