Nature, having a laugh

I buy a pot, buy a bonny lavender plant and plant it. I water it and watch as it sulks - grey and lack-lustre. Then lo' - some lavender self-seeds in an invisible crevice in a stone wall. And look at it!

Erigeron

I don't know if that's how you spell it - but something like that, anyway.

Hollyhock

My first ever hollyhock. My other attempts have gone rusty and died.

The exception to the rose rule

This rose likes my garden, and I like it.
I couldn't decide which picture - so put up both.

Just beginning

... to come into flower. Hydranger.

Late June

The first Agapanthus bloom.

Big and blowsy

This makes me think of over-blown 18th-Century Still Life painting.