Bees on the Teasels Bees on the Thistles

Although the garden meadow ended up somewhat neglected this year, the summer weather produced a wonderful array of flowers. The field marigolds and corm cockles are pretty well at the end of their season now, but the cosmos and field scabious, along with the buddleia,  teasels and thistles are still attracting both bees and butterflies.

At the other end of the garden, in the potager,  the marjoram and aliums are also still feeding the bees and bringing in a few butterflies. The Blackbirds are already feasting on the Elder berries and I noticed that even the Blackberries are ripening in the warm summer sunshine.

Bees on the Aliums

and even the Blackberries are ripening in the warm summer sunshine.