Catch Up

I'm playing catch up again… I seem to have been on a photo-taking frenzy over the past week…

Happy Violas for the pots.

My first year growing Bergamot… I think I quite like it! The Butterflies and bees seem to anyway,

Lavender 'hidcote' bought reduced… They looked to be poor specimens in the pots, but put them in the ground and they look fine! Small, but they'll grow quickly enough.

A strange double-headed Scabious…

Small Tortoiseshell

Monkhood has been flowering for a while now…

I've seen a few Bees dying recently… Worrying…

This Bee wasn't in good shape…

And a dead Wasp…

10-spotted Ladybird

Harlequin? Or one of our larger natives??

Plenty of Gatekeepers once again…

Can you spot all the Butterflies in this photo???

Plenty of Shield Bug babies.

And a very welcome Angel's Fishing rod!!

Stargazer lilies… they've never been very good, I really ought to get rid of them, but their perfume is very heady…

Veronica 'Twilight'

Newly hatched Shield bugs

And an interesting sunset to close…

Feel Good Friday

Today the garden has been making me feel good...

I love the fact I have a vase in the kitchen filled with flowers from the garden, 2 types of Rose, Astrantia, Salvia and Campanula.

Amazing.

Jasmine is opening… Plenty more buds to come, I’ve waited three years for a good show…

Fantastically coloured Fly

Comfrey will soon go in the compost bin (and an Aphid tags along).

How much longer will the new border keep me waiting… I can see poppy and Californian poppy buds

The Meadow Clary I thought I’d lost suddenly sprouted and the next thing I know, we have flowers! It is a fraction of the size it was last year, but at least there's something!

The Herb pot I bought very cheap last winter has mostly survived. Sage at the back seems dead… It had survived and put on new growth until a slug ate it!

Clematis ‘blue eyes’ brightens a very shady area… Needs more sun if I’m honest.

And you’re going to have to get used to seeing plenty of photos of this:

Campanula

I’ll move it next year, it’s crowding the Aquilegia and Veronica too much.

Stunning flowers…

I think I’ll be able to forgive it for taking over…