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July 27, 2016

My sunflowers mean summer is really here

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We had an influx of green-veined white butterflies this afternoon, presumably there's been a mass emergence somewhere nearby. It was lovely to watch them fluttering around the lavender and honeysuckle - they have a much more jittery flight pattern than small and large whites. I even enjoyed their company when they started to mate and lay their eggs on my kohlrabi! 😀

Today the garden has brought me pesto, plums, beetroot, salad, chillies and an influx of green-veined white butterflies.

The grass might be parched, but the sweet peas are adding some much needed colour to the garden 😊

Might not look like much but this is our first pinkberry crop. They taste better than I hoped - like an extra sweet blueberry with strawberry overtones. Next year I might say goodbye to a couple of fruit bushes that aren't producing much and buy another Blueberry 'Pink Lemonade' like this one 😊

These sunny faces are cheering up the edges of the vegetable beds and keeping the blackfly off my French beans. Win, win!! 😊

First crop of @suttons_seeds_plants dwarf French beans 'Yin Yang' harvested by the kids. Impressive amount considering we only have two rows - and they taste great too #growyourown

Dipping my toes into the cool planting in the rainbow garden designed by Allain Provost in Thames Barrier Park - a reminder of the site's dockland heritage

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