Close-ups of flowers

@pete we have a Hoya carnosa now for over 30 years. It is in flower now in the conservatory and as I write the scent is drifting into the house. My only wish is that the flowers wouldn't drop their nectar as this can have issues on the leaves if not wiped off. A beautiful plant.

 

@On the Levels , I have it in the greenhouse and it goes over a doorway I get the nectar on my head as I walk under it.

 

Two from my walk this afternoon.


Field Bindweed (rather pretty)


Black Knapweed

 

Hellebore Niger has decided to open a flower.
And the first of the coreopsis has opened. This plant narrowly avoided getting pulled out earlier in the year, as a suspected willowherb!

 

Another Jasmine has blossomed in the garden. That makes five.
Three white, one cream (or undecided colour), and this one.

 

A couple from my walk this afternoon.

 

Those are really impressive @pete!

 

Helenium





Eryngium zabelii





Cosmos





Rose 'Lady Emma Hamilton'

 

Bindweed flower occupied by a flower crab spider and its victim.

Rocket


Potato - I walked through a large field of them today, all looking very lush and flowering.

 

Sempervivum.



Thymus serpyllum 'Vey'.

 

I think this is another Jasmine - but an unusual colouring in my opinion.

 

Local fields planted with phacelia

 

Lovely picture @Scroggin . Do you know why they are growing it? Feed or Bees?