Flowers

The evening primroses have started to open:


And we have the first corn-marigold (slightly stained in the centre where the half-open bud ended up being full of water for several days of heavy rain!)


There is even some very straggly corn-chamomile, although it's suffering from being in a pot under a vigorous shoo-fly plant, so we now have a full roster of 'cornfield mix' (a.k.a. oldfashioned farm weeds :-p)

The local bees are loving the pink Linaria, which obligingly opens its lower petal when the insect's weight alights upon it; they are clearly honey-bees rather than wild bumble bees, so somewhere in the neighbourhood someone evidently has a hive that is foraging up on my roof :-D