Coreopsis

It was another balmy day.  We achieved a reasonable amount in the garden, but it was too warm for major progress.

W continued his ongoing current job.  He's collecting seed from the yellow rattle, which has grown really well in about half the area we are developing as a meadow.  We want to spread it onto the other half, to inhibit the grass growth.  He then strimmed a bit more.

He then retreated into the garage where it was a little (but not much) cooler where he's trying to reorganise the storage so we can keep both cars in there.

I tidied up the gate bed - I pulled up a lot of groundsel again, and dead headed the red hot pokers and the buddleja.

And then I tidied the pond bed, and planted the Pink Crispy and a pink flowered miniature buddleja that jumped into our trolley last time we were in Aldi.  Ten minutes after I'd finished watering in the new plants I spotted a bee on the pink flowers.  W unearthed a willow fish whilst tidying in the garage - I've found a place to lodge it amongst the stones so it hangs over the small pond.

This flower - Plant net tells me it's a Coreopsis - is blooming in the corner bed - presumably another one growing from the scattered seeds.  W cut back the lupin almost to the ground once the flowers were all spent.  It has sprung up with renewed vigour, and there's a new flower.  We must disentangle it from the small shrub it is swamping and move it in the autumn.