Gathering Pollen

 

It's Getting Hot

 

One of the wood pigeons perching in the shade as we had the hottest day of the year with temperatures in the high twenties thankfully by the end of the week temperatures returned back to normal.

Caught in Action.

 
 The proboscis is another name for the tongue of a bee.It is like the human tongue, in that it is soft and can be extended. Relative to the size of the average honeybee, the proboscis is long, a result of evolution helping the bee to reach the center of a flower to collect nectar.

Holker Poppy

 

Papaver somniferum var. paeoniflorum, 'Purple Peony'. The seeds of this flamboyant peony poppy germinated from seeds of a seed head acquired from Holker Hall. 

Verbena peruviana 'Endurascape White Blush'

 A new annual to the garden for this year Verbena is so far is flourishing in the raised bed. Described as a pretty white verbena flushed with the palest pink and bronze foliage which requires just a little dead-heading.