May, Our Garden

So May has arrived and not much better weatherwise, still enjoying the drought with all our buckets and vessels outside to catch the rain!!
In the interlude today, when a teeny bit or brightness shone I went down the garden to take a few pics of what is happening. Our man in the potting shed will be out and about from now till October, I know that for a fact because I am his BOSS.
Here are a few photos of my mans gardening prowess.

 The salad crops are coming on lovely we have already eaten a crop of mixed salad leaves.

Peas just started growing

Tomato plants

Lettuce

Beans

These Aquilegia we bought from town for about a pound, plus two pots of outdoor lillies at a bargain price of £2, cheaper than at the garden centre.

Aquilegia

Pieris forest flame

Euphorbia

 A lot of the vegetables are not going out for one simple reason and that is we are being raided by Squirrels who eat and destroy everything tender they come across. Today they raided the tubs with carrot plants in, took the netting off and trampled the pot and ate all the seedling, pests!

However the ordinary plants such as the Aquilegia, roses, and shrubs are being left alone, obviously not on the squirrels diet.
The border is coming along well without any help as it is planted with perennials, the best sort of planting and cost effective as they come up year after year.

My mom bought me this apple tree for mothers day

Isnt this lovely, In April it was no more than a stick with bare roots that we purchased for £6 from Asda, I tell you no bargain escapes my eye. So when mum gave me some money for Mothers Day, she thinks all mothers should have a present/ who am I to complain. I had fancied one of these trees and there were three left.
Now look at it the 2nd of May and has its own Blossom.So i rand her to say how lovely it was, she was so pleased.
Obviously my man in the garden is looking after it with tender loving care, just like he looks after me.
So thats it, our gardening year has begun, gardeners world is on on a friday evening, we have the malvern show to look forward too on tv, hampton court flower show, Chelsea. Then there are are the National Garden Scheme gardens to look forward to visiting.OOh so much to enjoy in the coming months.