I came back from holiday (on Hayling Island - lots of plants seen, will post photos in coming days) and see the rain had encouraged some new flowers.
the chicory has a new flush of flowers - which a bee is enjoying
the bought sea holly plants on the right, mostly brown but a few newer flowers, my seed-sown sea holly on the left, mostly green still but ones in front of the ladder turning blue and some fresh nepeta faassenii flowers and ox-eye daisy
some completely new echium Blue Bedder plants - in bloom
a new knautia macedonica
and snapdragon
before I went away, the globe thistles were in full bloom and attracting bees
I guess the bees eventually go to the veronica longifolia but it's not their first choice but I love the purple flowers
before I went away I had a new water lily in bloom
I grew these hyssop from seed last year, finally in bloom this year - but white instead of purple flowers I was expecting
speaking of bees, I had them on the musk mallow
the scabiosa Perfection Blue
lesser knapweed
and looking back I see bumblebees were on the globe thistles end of July
first flowers of the marsh mallow I grew some seed
