Wisteria time

The wisterias on the pergolas that line two sides of the Annecy Garden are coming into flower, they're beginning to look very pretty.

Wisterias in flower on the pergola, with mustard 'Red Frills' flowering in the foreground

A number of other plants are now in flower, mainly annuals that have survived the winter:

Self-sown violas, seed of which survived in the soil from 3 years ago when the beds were last planted with flowers, before being turfed over

Borage, Borago officinalis, there are also many seedlings of this appearing & these should flower through the summer. Not only are the flowers pretty, but also attractive to bees. You can eat the leaves, depends how much you enjoy chomping on bristles

The rocket (Eruca sativa) which we sowed & planted in the autumn is now flowering, we enjoyed a tasty salad of the leaves which are now particularly luxuriant & scarcely damaged by flea-beetles which make innumerable pock marks in spring-sown rocket (& also other brassicas)

The red & green salad bowl lettuces, planted out a month or so ago will soon be ready for harvesting:

The leaves on bloody dock (Rumex sanguineus) are now also looking lovely. They're edible. But really not that nice to eat. Still, maybe if you had them in a bowl of mixed salad leaves you might not be able to taste them, which'd be best.

Rumex sanguineus, looks prettier than it tastes