If everyone had a garden, would anyone riot?

On the left is a photo of the veg patch taken about three weeks ago, and to the right is a photo taken today!

Okay, so perhaps that is a bit of a sanctumonious title for a blog post, that actually, has nothing to do with the riots that have been happening in the (surprisingly) sunny UK over the past few days, well, maybe a little bit! I went to bed not knowing if the world would still be here in the morning, wondering, if, like in them movies it would be overrun with Zombies. Thankfully, nothing was amiss upon my wakening, mainly due to the inept people of Plymouth being completely and utterly unable of organising a riot, a shortlived campaign on Facebook (hardly covert) attempting to rally looters and rioters to Poundland (?!) was foiled! Who'd have believed! So, I was able to return home and take some pictures of my frankly, unbelievably blooming marvelous garden! 

On the left, you can clearly see the first of many, many courgettes. I have had to find new ways of eating them due to the sheer amount produced (about 20 is the count so far), including Chocolate and Courgette cake (holla on the comments if you want the recipe!). On the right is a very healthy looking runner bean (I didn't even want to plant them this year!).

The sunflowers! On the left is the benchmaker, being a benchmark! ho ho ho, and on the right is me, there's about three weeks in between shots - look how big they've grown!   Below is a shot of the sunflowers today, they look like they've grown a bit more, and still; no sign of flowers!

I planted a few varieties of sunflower, but only two have come up, the massive ones about, and this little diddy sunflower, which has three flower heads! I'm rather proud (and it makes me happy every time I look at it!). To the right is one of the tiger lillies I bought in St Ives, looking splendid. Although they only seem to flower for a day or two and then disappear again.

On the left we have one of the roses from a rose bush that seems to give nutrition to everything that grows near it! The courgettes that grow right by it are magnificant, but I thought the roses themselves looked pretty today, as do the gladioli, that I bought along with the tiger lillies in St Ives. They were a total bargain in a poundshop! They are leaning over quite a lot though as I don't think I planted them deep enough. Still lesson learned!

More gladioli on the left, this time a red one! There are a few more scattered around the garden that haven't flowered yet, and I'm excited to see what colour they will be! On the right is a nasturtium, hopefully it's the first of many!

Finally, another set of comparison shots! But a few weeks ago the runner beans were looking a bit sad (I planted them a little late, as initially I didn't want any, that is until my Mum insisted that I have some of her seddlings, and I discovered I couldn't let them die), but now they're making up for lost time and going crazy! Looking forward to eating more runner beans, because obviously I didn't have enough of them last year!