flowers and new buds, mid-June 2021

17-6-2021

the melancholy thistle are past their prime but some flowers still of interest to the bees

hoverfly on some unopened echium Blue Bedder buds

the bees don't seem to be visiting the fox-and-cubs yet but there are too many other flowers of interest for them in addition to the melancholy thistle: poppies, nepeta and green alkanet

first Lauren's Grape poppies, bee just below one, I guess I disturbed it off the flower while photographing

first candytuft in bloom

first echium Blue Bedder in bloom

first monkshood flower in bloom

16-6-2021

bees on the sheepsbit

left to right, fox-and-cubs, nepeta, snapdragons, poppies latest flush, scabious

My sea holly, Magical Blue Lagoon, which I bought from the garden centre last year, has survived (so many plants do not), in bud in the centre below.

sea holly (Magical Blue Lagoon) buds in the centre

bee in poppy

bee in melancholy thistle

calla lily and iris foetidissima (in the background) in bloom

delpinium in bloom, cornflower and sheepsbit in bloom below the delphinium

fringecups

scabious in bloom and knautia macedonica in bud

monkshood in bud

lavender buds below the monkshood

monarda Cambridge Scarlet in bud

lesser knapweed in bud

heleniums in bud above calendula