The fruit has been growing for ages, it seems, but the tomatoes are finally starting to ripen.

Looks like being our first good crop for quite a few years after rain spoilt previous crops.

It's seeming to take forever, but soon we could be there. The smallest of our four sunflowers has now overtaken the other three and is now some 10ft tall, adding three or four inches every day. Flowers are slowly developing so I'm hoping they'll be out soon.

I'm not sure anyone can beat @llamakevin 's magnificent field of sunflowers. Our tallest one continues to grow, but no sign of a flower yet . . .

However, the tomatoes are really coming on: lots of flowers and fruit forming.

We could be tomato-ed out in a few weeks.

I just wish I could slow time down at this point of the year. From April to June everything seems to grow so fast. The poppies have come and gone in a blink and our wild rose has almost finished flowering.

Now the flowers on the bushes are developing into flowers. The raspberries look good . . .

. . . and so do the blackcurrants . . .

As you can see, I'm a practical gardener and love plants that provide produce. The runner beans are starting to flower, although still have a way to grow up the wall, and the tomatoes are too.

So while it will be wonderful to eat the beans and tomatoes, and make jams and puddings, I don't want the summer to pass by too fast.

I do enjoy flowers though and think the colour of these (haven't a clue what they are ) is stunning . . .

I go away for three days and look what happens . . .

Were these the beans that Jack swapped for the cow?

These are the first sunflowers I've grown successfully so I'm quite pleased. The fun of the @twunflowercomp is watching the sunflowers grow . . . and grow . . . and grow . . . and grow . . . 

Can't wait for the flowers!