#SixonSaturday Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness… in my garden #gardening

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations. If you can find the time, check out the posts of other participants by following the links in the comments section of Jim’s post – or share your own six.

My six this week focuses the last hurrahs from the fruit and vegetable garden:

One – (Below, left) – After a very slow start it’s been a bumper year for climbing French beans (the variety is ‘Cobra’).

Two – (Below, top right) – It’s been a good year for Bramley apples as well.

Three – (Below, bottom right) – For the first time in years, we actually have fruit on the cordon-trained pears (the varieties are Buerre Hardy and Doyenne Du Comice).

Four – (Below, left) – Surprise late strawberries and lots of runners that are being potted up.

Five – (Below, top right) – Talking of surprises, this ‘Hunter’ butternut squash is the biggest I’ve ever grown.

Six – (Below, bottom right) – The last of the ‘Firenze’ courgettes.

#SixonSaturday And summer’s lease hath all too short a date #gardening

Six on Saturday is a weekly meme originally hosted by The Propagator but now in the tender care of Jim at Garden Ruminations. If you can find the time, check out the posts of other participants by following the links in the comments section of Jim’s post – or share your own six.

Given we’re now in meteorological autumn, my six focuses on faded beauty and the last hurrahs of summer:

One – (Below, left) – A sead head of Allium sphaerocephalon.

Two – (Below, top right) – Sweet peas left to go to seed (or not picked in time)

Three – (Below, bottom right) – A drooping sunflower having given its all.

Four – (Below, left) – The wildflower patch: a few flowers left to the delight of pollinators, but mostly ready to drop seed for next  year.

Five – (Below, top right) – After a very slow start it’s been a bumper year for climbing French beans (the variety is ‘Cobra’).

Six – (Below, bottom right) – Berries starting to form on holly even as we experience a September heatwave.