mid-June 2023

The giant scabious is giant! sky-high. So happy it's blooming - and then the icing on the cake - a bee visiting the flowers yesterday.

closer view of the bee, will try to get a better shot today

a few days later, more flowers, more bees

more fabulous Lauren's Grape poppies in bloom

one of the flowers with a bee

foxgloves with bee

Amazing Grey poppies with a bee

another view of a bee on the poppies

and another

at one point I had 7 poppies in bloom

fox-and-cubs, echium vulgare with Scarecrow in the background

verbena bonariensis in bloom

monkshood

hogweed bud

hogweed bud the next day

emerging more

another eruption from a stem below

water figwort large stem

globe thistles with buds

small teasels in bud

greater knapweed buds

lesser knapweed buds