bee on red poppy
finally the bees have started visiting the Lauren's Grape poppies
lots of red poppies are blooming
viper's bugloss, bee bottom right
blackcurrant sage appeared to be almost dead but I've been watering it well and it has revived, lots of flowers
Acanthus in bloom, best flowers in years. Last year no flowers as they were devoured by slugs. This year, putting in this new fence requred extensive clearing of ivy where I guess the slugs and snails were hiding out. This year, nowhere to hide. Three flowers, must get a better photo of all 3. I wanted to show the bee here - bottom flower on the right of the left flower.
close-up of that bee
Now the bee is on the left at the bottom.
flying bee just to the left
view of the entire acanthus
Crepis rubra (pink dandelion / pink hawk's-beard) I grew from seed, first flower 14-6-2022
lots of buds so looking forward to more flowers
I have lots of poppies in bloom now but so far no bees on them. I have some bees but I guess not enough to get to all the flowers in the garden.
hogweed, I'm hoping I can see a bee on this soon
borage with buds, green alkanet behind