How does your garden grow?

What a beautiful rose, I need to get out and dead head mine and do some serious work out there, I've got some huge lavender flowers too.

The other things that are huge are the raspberries, enormous great things half the size of my thumb! When I pick them I can wear one on each finger nail. I've got quite a few black currants too, which is good for bushes that only went in last year and were small. I gave my DiL a blackcurrant to taste a couple of days ago, she didn't know what it was and her face turned inside out when she tried it, so I gave her a raspberry to take the taste away.

Thank you - it’s my favourite. Many of the blooms are coming off and leaving bare patches, but new buds will burst forth shortly clothing the shrub in pink. 

Your raspberries sound delicious. I don’t grow them but the last raspberries I bought in the supermarket came from Portugal. We don’t get Scottish raspberries anymore, such a shame, and there aren’t enough Irish raspberry growers to supply the shops. It is really concerning how growers have been affected. 

The redcurrants are ripening and I have some wild strawberries which planted themselves in the border a few years ago. I have moved it to a more suitable location and it is supplying me with a few delicious berries.

Your DiL’s face sounds a picture and I can understand her expression, not being keen on them myself. I was wondering what whitecurrants taste like as I don’t recall having eaten them. I might try growing those next year.

The whitecurrants, between your description and Cinnabar’s, sound promising. I might try raspberries too. It’s difficult to do everything I want to do because sometimes my interest in the garden drifts to other places and energy is lacking. 

Your daughter is very helpful. Thank you. 

Your description of the taste is excellent, not an easy task, and they sound nice. 

ArchaeC said:

Do whitecurrants taste similar to red currants? 

She says no, redcurrants are a bit more bitter, white are more sweet and that explode in your mouth and it's really nice. So I think TheCatWoman  is a right, they aren't distinctive like other flavours. 

She just fetched me one, and it was tart, with a mild berry after taste. I was fetched a second, bitten in half, it was sweeter at least. She's gone out to procure more, at least she has actually come in for coat and crocs.

Raspberries are easy to grow, they just need a good feed and off they go. I'm not sure what whitecurrants taste like either, I think I've had them, so probably not that memorable.

I found a lettuce growing in some old compost that had been put in a wheelbarrow so I will transplant that along with the tomato I found amongst the geraniums

Your daughter is getting her vitamin C with all those berries! She sounds like my mum used to be eating that tart fruit. Mum used to love raw gooseberries and used to suck lemons. I’m with your daughter on the strawberries and redcurrants.

Do whitecurrants taste similar to red currants? 

We have white, red and black currants (they grow well here apparently), and gooseberries, all of which my daughter eats even if slightly under ripe. 

Sometimes I try get some to make jam, and then find she's taken the bowl. She doesn't like them as jam, too sweet!

She is also often found squirreling away some wild strawberries whenever the door is open, with or without shoes on.

We have white, red and black currants (they grow well here apparently), and gooseberries, all of which my daughter eats even if slightly under ripe. 

Sometimes I try get some to make jam, and then find she's taken the bowl. She doesn't like them as jam, too sweet!

She is also often found squirreling away some wild strawberries whenever the door is open, with or without shoes on.

Your daughter is very helpful. Thank you. 

Your description of the taste is excellent, not an easy task, and they sound nice. 

ArchaeC said:

Do whitecurrants taste similar to red currants? 

She says no, redcurrants are a bit more bitter, white are more sweet and that explode in your mouth and it's really nice. So I think TheCatWoman  is a right, they aren't distinctive like other flavours. 

She just fetched me one, and it was tart, with a mild berry after taste. I was fetched a second, bitten in half, it was sweeter at least. She's gone out to procure more, at least she has actually come in for coat and crocs.

Your daughter is getting her vitamin C with all those berries! She sounds like my mum used to be eating that tart fruit. Mum used to love raw gooseberries and used to suck lemons. I’m with your daughter on the strawberries and redcurrants.

Do whitecurrants taste similar to red currants?