poppies, acanthus, pink hawk's-beard and friends

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