July in the garden - flowers

 The small patch beneath the front window is now covered in flowers - hardy geraniums at ground level and pyracantha blossoms above.

Feverfew  - which I started growing as a herb but quickly decided its flowers were pretty enough to be a 'flower'.









more colourful and heavenly scented flowers on the sweetpeas

stunning lilies - and no signs of lily beetle this year.

a pot of marigolds - not really that unusual but it's often difficult to get them to grow here as the slugs and snails eat them too quickly

 Sweet williams flowering for the first year - it's a long while since I last had these in my garden and they're lovely.

full to overflowing borders - dominated by foxglove spires

 pink scented rose

 and the creamy one being encouraged to climb the birch tree

one of my garden centre rescues doing well

This week's rescue mission

Another weekend trip to the 'reduced' rack! I was specifically looking for pinks - and found one. It was in a very sad state - drooping from lack of water. In fact it was so dry that while we looked at the other 'reduced' plants, I pulled the rootball out of the pot and sat it in a puddle.
The two hanging baskets were dry but not as dreadful. The smaller one is for us to hang by the back door. The larger was actually bought as the cheapest way to buy a new hanging basket chain! Less than £3 for all 3!!