Garden

This garden is growing like crazy, largely due to the rain that we have had.   2" in 2 hours, last Thursday.  I revelled in rain on the metal roof of the caravan!  I definitely didn't like the light and sound display, though.  Cringe, cringe!!

Here is a photo of the vegetable garden after the rain.   Note the differences between the first photo and this one, taken only 10 days later.  The corn, at the front, has grown in leaps and bounds and the tomatoes are headed for the sky.

We have all eaten a lot of the lettuce and Richard is planning on putting more in very soon.   We tried baby carrots, for a real treat and surprisingly, baby parsnip is fantastic.    I didn't expect the parsley and thyme seed to be up for another 2 weeks but it has broken the ground!

If anyone can tell me the name of this flower, below, I would be very grateful.  The buds seem to come at the end of the stem, which grows thicker and thicker.  One day it bursts open, displaying tatty looking, unopened flowers. A day later, out they come, 5 or 6 flowers to a stem.

The bud at the end of the stem.

Individual flowers are only tatty for one day before they open.

Almost fully open.

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