Hollyhocks.

About 8 foot tall these are, a good year for them, clearly. Unlike almost everything else in the garden whcih has either been ravaged by slugs or cats. 

Spent the morning trying to get my team leader happy with the standard of my marking - this evening she said she was, so now I am all systems go to mark. I am genuinely not sure how I feel about it now - it's such hard work!