Midsummer Garden

June and Midsummer's Day has passed and now we've reached July. I always think that June and July are spectacular months in the garden - a culmination of all that you wait for during those dark months of winter. 

There are so many plants blooming and flowering that it's difficult to be able to give each one the appreciation they deserve, but here are few of my favourities from the garden this June. 

Delphiniums and foxgloves amongst the wallflowers

Pots of wallflowers, cotton lavenders and begonias

Shades of poppies amongst verbena, daisies and irises

Lupin time

Perlargoniums and begonia pots

A summer favourite - sweet peas

Nothing like picking your own raspberries

The sweet smell of a summer honeysuckle

Campions and lavenders

Salvias in different varieties 

Summer isn't complete without the heady scent of roses

Hebe foaming on the rockery

Bees and bright cotton lavenders

Smiling Sunflowers and Sunshine

I love August as it means it is sunflower time! I always like to have a few here and there in the garden. When we visited Hitchin Lavender Farm recently I spotted that they had a field full, which were about to burst into bloom, so we popped back for another visit and to take some photos. They looked spectacular! 

August in the Garden

The pots and baskets are still looking colourful and the summer annuals are giving lots of brightness now a lot of plants have flowered and finished for the season. 

There are still lots of bees and butterflies, especially on tne verbena. They seem to love the blue and purple flowering plants that we have scattered about the garden. 

We have been having gold finches on the sunflower seed feeder regularly all summertime. The mornings have been quite dewy and there are some beautiful spider webs as you wander around the garden early in the morning. 

Roses are still blooming and the waterlilies are still flowering. 

Even the seed in one of the bird feeders has sprouted! 

I've been adding clusters of shells around the garden following our recent visits to the seaside. August is one of the most relaxing and lazy times in the garden.