Red jelly berry

Although the blackcurrant season is fairly short, redcurrants hang around for ages. It's a constant reminder to make time to pick enough for a jar of jelly, or at least squirrel some away in the freezer.

Lily reliable

       The first week of July and right on time the lily buds open.

Home front

Cherryred

Berryred

Berryfull

Ripe & ready

Pea season

Tayberries

Forest of flowers

Kinds of blue

Pop

                                    Poppies have popped

Pretty, toxic

                 Scarlet pimpernel, aka Anagallis arvensis.

In the bag

Bathroom bloom

The bathroom cactus, Aloe ngongensis identified at Kew, is in flower.

Solstice peas

Jam today, jam tomorrow

Shoot that poisoned arrow

        Aconitum, aka Monkshood, Wolfsbane, Queen of Poisons

I am the foxglove king

                                    You gotta help them bees.

Centaurea cyanus