A Hackney garden in summer – part 5

In August the runner beans were ready for harvesting:

and had developed what I didn’t expect: pink beans 

 

 By September the sunflowers were more than 2 metres high:

 

A Hackney garden in summer – part 3

Mornings in our garden in June and July are wonderful.
At the back you can see that the runner beans grew a meter tall and started to flower.

 Runner bean blossoms:

 A few wild flowers blossomed in the ‘meadow’ section of our flower bed: 

 A detail from our staircase garden:

Another wild flower, Borage:

 

Hosta flower:

 

 Star Jasmine:

 And our friendly visitor, the neighbours’ cat Stanley, who comes round every morning

Hackney’s biggest ever wild flower meadow

Yes, this is what the council has planned, and it is right here were I live!

The area that has been dug up is extensive. Chances are it will look lovely. Apparently the fence should come down in July – I am surprised how quickly this meadow is expected to grow.
Will keep you posted!

Update, October 2013:
In the end it took a bit longer than July for the fence to come down, but when the meadow was ready, at the beginning of September it was stunning!

Related articles:

• Plan to revive UK wildflower meadows (bbc.co.uk)
• Olympic park will blossom with more meadows of wild flowers (standard.co.uk)
• ‘Coronation Meadows’ could save wild flowers (telegraph.co.uk)