The warm weather combined with a reasonable amount of rain means that the Annecy Garden is filled with luxuriant plant growth.
In the new beds by the park gates, squashes, sunflowers & tomatoes have been growing particularly vigorously.
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Sunflowers & calendulas in the background, fronted by potatoes, 'Red Leaf Deer Tongue' lettuce & Tagetes 'Linnaeus', with courgette leaves bottom right |
The tomatoes have been growing very well, particularly productive are the 'Jaune Flamme':
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Tomato 'Jaune Flamme', very productive. I'd like to've shown the ripe fruit which are orange in colour, but there are some very assiduous tomato harvesters. Which is good. |
The self sown seedlings of Tomato 'Yellow Currant' are doing very well:
We've also been harvesting the 'Anya' potatoes. This is a lovely variety, a cross between 'Desiree' & 'Pink Fir Apple'. The tubers are pink & are very tasty boiled or incorporated in a potato salad.
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'Anya' potatoes |
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Lorraine digging the 'Anya' potatoes; in the foreground are 'Yellow Currant' tomatoes & yacon. |
In order to prolong their flowering we have been deadheading the calendulas:
In spaces where we have cleared crops or flowers that have gone over, we have sown some quick growing crops such as lettuce:
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Lettuce seedlings, the feathery leaves on the lower right are of Phacelia tanacetifolia seedlings |
We are still getting plenty of flowers:
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Crepis rubra, an annual from Greece; a pink dandelion |
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Salvia blepharophylla 'Painted Lady', the wild species is pollinated by hummingbirds in Mexico. They've yet to make the journey to the Annecy Gardens. |
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Allium tuberosum, garlic chives is widely used in oriental cookery; the flowers are very attractive to pollinators, especially hoverflies |
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Madia elegans, the seeds of this were used for food in precolonial California. Their small size & the effort required to extract them makes one think it wasn't all fun being a native American in the Pacific States in past eras. |
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