Today's Garden

My garden has loved all the rain we've been having. There are observable changes every day. When I first saw these coreopsis a bee was crawling all over one of the flowers, its rear legs covered in yellow pollen. I ran inside to get my phone to take a photo but it had flown off.

This is the first bloom of the random echinacea in one of my beds.

These dwarf sunflowers were grown from seed under the grow lights in my kitchen. It's the first to bloom. A little bee had already found it (at 7 o'clock on the centre). I also planted a couple of sunflowers that will grow to over 2.5m (8ft+). The seeds were a birthday gift to me last year.

My garden is a hodge-podge of perennials (mostly). The daisies were an end-of-season sale purchase last year probably from Canadian Tire. Behind them on the right is a bent-over blue bellflower (campanula carpatica), front left are cornflowers/bachelor buttons, black-eyed susans in front of the daisies, the sunflower, and viola foliage on the bottom right. I think the violas are done blooming for the season but I like the lush foliage. 

Scooter and Skip attached this bit of lattice to the fence a few years ago for our neighbour's clematis that likes to poke through the fence. This bloom is spectacular today.

Sharon's 3ft high shasta daisies are amazing right now. Bees are loving the pollen.

I took a couple of videos of the bee action on the daisies (click the 'play' triangle twice)

and the foxglove.