some rain at last

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

passionflower

chicory

chicory

veronica longifolia final flowers

veronica longifolia

teasel rosette, first year

teasel 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)

water lily with 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)

japanese anemone

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

milk parsley

I love those purple stems

milk parsley