I wish I could capture how intense the purple of these hardy geranium Anne Thomson flowers is 🌱

I love how the range of colours in the garden expands as the weeks go on until at this time of year it's all the colours of the rainbow 🌱

Campanula lactiflora six feet tall and so blue it's making the blue sky look grey! It's covered in hoverflies and red soldier beetles too 🌱

The Tutti Frutti border and pots ( where there's every colour of the rainbow ) having a moment of loveliness after being soaked in rain for most of June 🌱

It's not often that you get a perfect herb harvesting day in Ireland. St John's wort, meadowsweet, lemon balm, comfrey, self-heal, yarrow and roses 🌱

These Bloody Mary nasturtiums are growing with the edible flowers but they're just too pretty to eat!🌱

I love the serendipitous colour matches that come with welcoming a bit of self sown chaos 🌱

Every day is #Humpday if you're a red soldier beetle 😀🌱

I thought the last week of cold rain had ruined the roses for this year but one hot sunny day and this 20 foot by 30 foot wall of kiftsgate is filling the whole garden with heady perfume 😍🌱

I love Cerinthe, such a strange and beautiful flower and always popular with the insects here. Good chunky easy to save seeds from too 🌱

Hogweed party 🥳 🌱

These Arctic Fire dianthus are in hanging baskets in the tunnel. They bring hoverflies in and look gorgeous 🌱

I have to have a hanging platform in the polytunnel for seedlings that mice would eat, so I've grown some edible flowers underneath that will also encourage pollinators in. They look really pretty in salads 🌱

This scarlet geranium tumbling into the oxalis makes for an eye popping combination 🌱

Summer in a temperate rainforest 😀🌱

These white iris are looking lovely next to grasses and oxeye daisies 🌱

This nasturtium mix Bloody Mary looks like it's going to be a good one, especially since the grey skies have returned! 🌱

Toadflax with Rough Hawksbit and Oxeye Daisies behind for #ThursYellow 🌱

Picking rose petals to dry for herb tea and to soak in almond oil to make moisturizer 🌱

I love the colour combinations you get if you let fox and cubs pop up where it likes. Good job since it self seeds everywhere! 🌱

I was having one of those years when you wonder why you bother growing veg ( onions bolted with rollercoaster temps, apple blossom not set, a little furry menace destroying all the brassicas ) and then it's broad bean pate time which needs young tender beans you can't buy and I'm won over again 😀🌱

What a lovely place to hang out on a hot sunny day! #PinkMon 🌱

When you're playing chicken to see how close you can get to a butterfly with your phone without scaring them away!🌱

A proper summer's evening after weeks of cold, grey drizzle, heaven 🌱,

Time to make a few gallons of elderflower wine for Christmas 😋🌱

It's all happening on the hogweed 🌱

Meadow cranesbill is a gorgeous wildflower to bring into your garden 🌱

Ladybird poppy for #RedWed 🌱

I love the colours of this Verbascum Southern Charm. It comes back year after year even up here with the cold and wet winters ( and damp, grey summers! )🌱