beginning of July 2017

yes, the bees like the veronica, I wasn't sure as they didn't go to it immediately but since the echium, lupin and borage isn't so exuberant they've found the veronica

veronica and echium vulgare

the second lupin flower, not as large as the first

I cannot get enough of the scabious buds

scabious flowers and globe thistle buds

I can't stop taking pics of the scabious

the sea holly is blooming, just starting to colour, at least some have survived the slugs

the agapanthus buds are just starting, it's so dry even they were wilting, one looks like it hasn't straightened up since watering, everything in the garden is under stress with this drought

Victor on the patio under the catnip, both the purple-flowered nepeta faassenii and the nepeta cataria with white flowers

the white-flowered nepeta cataria

last year I went out in the evenings and picked off the slugs and snails but this year I haven't been able to and the hostas really suffered, they're flowering but the leaves are like lace

I have morning glory popping up all over the place, nice contrast with the nasturtiums, chicory in the background