Summer is here

This is the 'start of summer bonus post'. Everything is growing so quickly that it would be hard to bring you a state of the moment picture. But here are some shots spread across the last couple of weeks.

My favourite plant out there is my fig tree. I had met a guy named Andy, who, with his wife, decided to sell their place, buy a motor home, and live out of it for their retirement. I stopped over to his place during his moving sale. As a gift, he gave me a big bag of frozen figs and broke a branch off his fig tree in the front yard. "Here," he said, "Stick this in the ground." 

"You mean to tell me that it'll grow," I asked. "Sure," he said, "How do you think I got this one?" pointing to his tree. Actually, the main branch he gave me died, but this little tree came from one of the tips of the branch he gave me. I had rooted it in a separate pot. As you can see, it's doing very well now.  

My fig tree a month or so ago

Two weeks ago What a wonder....it's growing, my fig is growing!

Last week

Jeanne has added tomatoes all around the tree.

Another wonder, besides my fig tree. Real passion fruits growing above our deck.  Dianne was here visiting a year ago when I bought the little passion fruit seedling from a shop in Glen Eden.  Things grow fast here!

Dan Miles says that to him, the taste of passion fruit means summer. He likes them best in smoothies. I told him that raspberries are my 'taste of summer.'

Jeanne's beans along the base of the deck,  This picture was taken a week ago.  This morning, the bean tops were above the level of the deck.

Zucchini by the fence. Pretty soon it'll be zucchini by the pound, ah, kilo.

And look at her rhubarb grow.  The stalks are thick and juicy.  Rhubarb crumble, here we come!

Last but not least are Jeanne's geraniums next to the driveway.  -djf