Summer Solstice 2021 (June 21st)

opium poppy with hoverfly

centaurea dealbata

sheepsbit with bee on the left, centaurea dealbata on the right

delphinium on the table above on the right

some of my most slug-vulnerable plants on this table, delphinium and rudbeckia Green Wizard

monkshood on the left, verbascum on the right

closer views of the verbascum flowers

knautia macedonica pincushion buds

scabious on the left, knautia on the right

teasel

the enormous stem on that teasel

sunflower bud

passionflower, first in flower this year

sea holly, central flower with just a hint of blue starting

fox visitor in the garden