Summer 2004.

The Veg Patch, Summer 2004.

Cosmos "Daydream".

North-East bed, roses, purple sage, feverfew.

Lots of things waiting to flower, including rudbeckia, alyssum etc.

South-east bed; stocks, alyssum, limonium, astilbes.

Giant single sunflowers, see below...

Every garden has its surprises, this year we have had lots of wild poppies, just beautiful lipstick shades. These amidst the stock and alyssum I sowed. Same bed as above.

...flowering at last, and fair game for the local squirrels.

In about a week this bed will bloom into a mass of rudbeckias... see below!

On a rare sunny day in what I am mockingly referring to as the "Summer of 2004".... This year a lot of the flowers have mildew due to the wet weather. Grr!