We’re into May, I’m trying to use up all of last year’s frozen fruit and veg in the kitchen as the new season approaches. While I do that, I’m noticing the edibles are really gearing up now, ready for this year’s fruiting and vegging season. This week’s theme reflects my excitement, mostly edibles, in whitish colours, for my #SixonSaturday. I’ll start with the exception that breaks the rule. The very LAST of the narcissi, I often wonder where my Pheasant Eye have disappeared to. Then their striking heads pop up in early May. One of my favourites.

It is very much apple blossom time now, especially the early fruiters. I have 8 trees in the garden, mostly very old, fruiting sequentially (a previous garden custodian really new their stuff). This huge tree fruits at the back end of August, with small red apples that are perhaps a bit too sweet for my taste. The tree looks fabulous this week.

As old as the house…probably….at about 210 years, the old pear tree (30cm diameter trunk) has been covered with blossom this year. Most of it has blown away now, to reveal a host of tiny fruit. Here’s a sample of some oldish blossom with new fruits revealed underneath.

A final blossom for this week has just arrived on a large Saskatoon Berry bush. Whenever I have tasted the dark purple-black berries in August they’ve been rather bitter. Perhaps not quite ready? Who knows, by the time I try again, they have usually become bird-food.

Down to the ground now. I started broad beans in pots in the greenhouse back in February. They got planted out in early April, and now are flowering away for an early bean harvest. The flowers have a complex white-with-purple-black-stripes pattern, worth some close inspection.

As a finale, down in the shady undergrowth it is very much wild garlic time. With some trepidation I introduced these to the garden from a local woodland some years ago. They are rather invasive, but they put up a good fight against the pesky ground-elder that continues to spread across the whole garden, and their flowers are gorgeous, so good luck to them (make a sparky, spicy addition to a spring salad too).

Have a lovely weekend and find time to enjoy the flowers and the edibles. There’s so much to do in the garden just now. That’s my #SixonSaturday for this week. Stay safe, and don’t forget to follow the crowd on twitter and via the web from links to the originator of #SixonSaturday, the Propagator himself.