Dear All
Just in the nick of time, here are a few flower photos from our garden to celebrate the ongoing Flower Festival. Tomorrow, Sunday, the Lynnside Community Garden will join many other flower-related activists for an afternoon at the stunningly beautiful Ardmaddy Castle gardens.
Stunning red-orange-purple Osteospermum daisies. Our gardener, Graham, has planted several varieties of them, ranging from pure white to deep red via pale yellow and bright orange.
Above, a kale flower with a honeybee; below, the flower of a pumpkin. We'll see how big it will get.
This photo of a deep red sunflower was taken "blind", the camera being held above the flower facing straight into the sky. The ladybird was an unexpected bonus.
The lovely veggie patch with real marigolds and a couple of bright red poppies glimpsed through a gap in the wooden fence along Dalintart Lane.
Your blogger had this fabulous salad for a late lunch/early tea today.
The recipe? With pleasure:
Take a good handful of tender cut-and-grow-again lettuce leaves. add a few rocket leaves, pluck the petals off a couple of marigold heads, chop in a few small carrots, a couple of organic tomatoes, perhaps half an avocado, and LOTS of fresh herbs – chives, sage, marjoram or oregano, parsley. Sprinkle on some crushed sea salt and about a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar and add a generous squirt of extra virgin olive oil. Toss the lot gently but thoroughly and garnish with as many nasturtium blossoms as there are people to share this bounty with. Bon appétit!
No meal is quite complete without a pretty nosegay. This one consists of two sprigs of purple and one sprig of red sweet pea blossoms plus a sprig of flowering spearmint. Ah, the fragrance is exquisite!
