Summer Flora and Fauna

[TallTrees]

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April to June

April my Red Mason Bees start to emerge after a long long time in their silk cocoon. I put them out when it's about 14C . They pollinate all the fruit trees, apples pears plums they come and go to their home tubes where they lay an egg with pollen and nectar place a mud plug in between each until they reach the end of the tube and on they go until June. 

This year a dear little bee also used the tubes.  They do a similar thing in July, hoped to see more but one tube very welcome.

I took a photo of the tubes and Spot the odd one out!

 All these bees only do good no harm to any one and they are so special. Our friend the leaf cutter bee moved in and I couldn't be more thrilled.

They pollinate the summer flowers and vegetable flowers.

I have started a new crop of vegetables this year

 Tomatoes Runner beans and cucumber 

 cucumber flower

 Beans just starting to crop now

 Tomato flowers.

Growing these gives me so much joy. Growing these from seeds is so interesting and neighbour's swapping different varieties they have grown too. A new one to me is a Tomato from a neighbour that is a chocolate colour!

 

 

[Breanna]

Such a lot of dedication to your bees @TallTrees. Most people only glimpse the roses missing big circles from their leaves. Only a few get to see where they go 😂

I'm never impressed with the quality of supermarket garlic so I didn't think it would grow very well. Organic Gardening Catalogue do some good bundles in Jan/Feb so I grabbed my garlic, shallot, onion sets, and potatoes from there. 

I did plant some supermarket potatoes in one pot to see how they got on. Definitely not as vigorous as the Charlottes and Pink Fir Apple potatoes I planted but they're green and growing. Time will tell if they come out well. The hot weather last year caused quite a bit of blight on my tubers but thankfully most of them were easily taken care of with the peeler before going into the boiling pot! This year it's been cool so everything is very lush out there in the garden now.

[TallTrees]

Agree @Breanna 

To get good things out you need to put good things in!

Love your garden 😍