Astrantia major

I love seeing the Astrantia flowers every year. They can be thugs, but here you see how colours have mixed over time. The white is definitely the most robust, but the reds and pinks have cross pollinated.

The summer garden is a time when old friends reappear, reliably, year after year. It is a delight.

I'm still pretty washed out but I did walk along the village main street and back this afternoon. It was wild and windy. The wind held off the rain, but we had plenty of that during the day. My garden is happy.