FLOWERS GALORE and CHEEKY BUGS

My garden is small and it  has to be versatile.  I don't want heaps of flowers without the joy of eating my own garden produce; nor do I want loads of vegetables without the beauty and fragrance of flowers for picking or just enjoying in my garden. 

Sometimes we miss things, I think.  When I take a photo and get real close, it is funny what the camera sees that I initially missed.  There is a spider in this hanging basket begonia.  Cheeky little beggar, pinching the bees' pollen. 


I think begonias are lovely in a hanging basket and, of course, they tolerate partial shade. 




One of my favourite things to grow is sweet peas.  This year I have sacrificed a little of the scent of the old-fashioned type by growing a mixture of a more modern kind.  They are still fragrant and so it is a happy compromise.