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
