some rain at last

I've hardly had any passionflower flowers this year. Since the rain, this one bloomed.

chicory

veronica longifolia final flowers

teasel rosette, first year

another water lily blooming - with a hoverfly (at first I thought it was a bee but now, processing the photo, I see it's a hoverfly)

my Japanese anemones were looking terrible but after some long-awaited rain, they've revived and this one is being visited by a hoverfly (again, what I initially thought was a bee)

my milk parsley was almost dying but I've been watering its pot and the worst of the heat has abated

I love those purple stems