Centaurea montana

Bee 🐝 in flight

April 2024

And Centranthus 👏💕

#love-in-a-mist #cosmos #valerian #perennial-cornflower #ox-eye-daisy

#nigella at the front (soon to start blooming) and the purple ones #grape-hyacinth just at the back. Nigella always self seeds freely in my garden and is adored by bees. 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Nigella (Love-in-mist) has been, as usual, the star of the show this year, completely covered in pollinators at any given time. 💙

#wildlifewednesday #exoskeletal

#trueblue

Gorgeous colour blue, mine are white. Must get blue for next year 💙💙💙

@anges I noticed that the blue ones are visited more by 🐝

What’s more beautiful in June than a Love-in-a-mist? 💙

Twice as much love-in-a-mist LOL

@emch 😅

8.6.2020 And here’s the white variety growing freely in my garden 💕

#love-in-a-mist self-seeded next to #cosmos grown from seed and a perennial #scabious Guess which is the bumblebees’ favourite? Aaaand the winner is... love-in-a-mist. And through wonderful fortune, it grows everywhere freely in my garden. Blue little flowers everywhere, absolutely “messy” and wonderful 💙

#advice needed please! Some of the Nigellas are now becoming lovely seed pods, what do I do with them? Spread the seeds all over the place is my first thought (because they’re so beautiful). Should I be dead-heading at all? Thanks

If you don’t want the seeds to spread and you want plant to hopefully bloom longer, deadhead. Depends what you want.

@bluefox23 @missxyoung Thank you! I’ll leave them longer to self seed! I do love seeing them all over the garden ❤️

Perhaps take some off for now to encourage more flowers, then leave them later?

@joanboston That sounds good too! If only this rain would give us a break now...

So incredibly beautiful. Popping up everywhere in the garden 💕

Something magical about these 😍

What a lovely colour..... only seen blue before

So beautiful and grows freely in my garden. ❤️

Wish they did in mine! One of my favourites 💙

Pretty 😍