Lots has grown in the last week and there was quite an explosion of colour. The first sunflowers have opened, but they’re only little. The coreopsis has bloomed, so now begins my deadheading work for real. 

The pond was a bit low from the hot weather and I’ve topped it up an amount. The pickerel weed has flowered for the first time, but the water violet has been pecked at again as it was above the water. I’ll leave the pot in case it grows again from the stem. The purple loosestrife has suffered in the heat and both plants have  dried up. I hope I might be able to revive them with some water.

I noticed a little lump of spawn on the far side of the pond. It’s rather late to be frogspawn – and the eggs are somewhat smaller, but that’s my best guess at the minute. It’s only a couple of inches across, so my hopes aren’t up for its survival.

I saw my 3 diving beetles all together and a wasp busy hovering around the water too. I also spotted a sparrow in the bird bowl too, but I haven’t yet managed to get a good enough view to see what they get up to in there. 

Lots of deadheading needed doing and I did lots of pick weeding too. Just some little nettles remain because I never got around to getting my glove.

I watered all the veg on a count of 2, rather than 3. So at least they’ve all had some. The grass is also dealt with. I did a big patch in the car park on 3, then did the entire plot on 1.

There’s another month before the onions are done, so I’ve moved the cosmos into pots, as they were running out of room. I’ve moved a couple of zinnias to spots in Bed 6 and now there will probably be enough room in that bed to simply spread out the rest of the zinnias.