What are we growing in the garden this year?

Last year we had a bumper crop of runner beans, a few potatoes, carrots and beetroot.  The cabbage and cauliflower growing was a waste of time because it became caterpillar feed.

This year we are trying dwarf beans in the hopes that we will have a crop of beans but not be over-run with them.  We are also trying beetroot again with a variety called Pablo, some multi-coloured carrots which are basically orange, yellow and white and then we have tomatoes, potatoes and strawberry.  We have had strawberries growing for a few years actually but they always get eaten by the slugs and snails so this year we have put them in a hanging basket to see what happens.  Slugs and snails can't climb up thin air can they?

I didn't actually take a photo of the hen house last year to show you what it looks like, I just took photos of the hens.  It has a run which goes underneath the sheltered house.  The beans this year are in the big red tub that used to have the strawberries growing in and the strawberries are in a hanging basket.

A couple of bags of potatoes and the chickens being nosy as always.

We also have flowers in the garden.  I won't show the lavender as that's in another post but here are some of the flowers we have growing too.  First is a scented rose that I've had for years, so long that we bought it with us from our first house to this one as it was in a big planter originally.  Its now planted in the garden properly and gives us a good display every year.

We have a massive shrub/semi-climbing rose from David Austin Roses called Spirit of Freedom.  Its beautiful, the flowers are ginormous and  heavily scented.  The only problem is that the flowers are so heavily that they usually hang down towards the floor and you can only see their beauty when you lift them.  I have a multi-coloured Spirea, it flowers white and pink on the same shrub and then that is Cranesbill Geranium and both are usually covered in bees.

In this last photo, I have two photos of a pink flowering plant that I have no idea what it is or where it came from.  Its not invasive, so I've ruled out it being a weed, when its overcast or dark the flowers close up tightly like they've been rolled up.  Then we have Campanula, which is pretty in masses of clumps but is very invasive so has to be controlled a lot.