I took these photos about a week ago, but have only just got round to looking at them. Our garden is a very small cottage garden. I don’t like seeing bare earth in the summer (it’s unavoidable in the winter when the herbaceous plants have died back) so the result is a jungly mess!

Path? What path?

Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’. The bees love this thistle.

Angelica archangelica. This self-seeds like mad, given the chance.

Hesperis matronalis (Sweet rocket). Another self-seeder, and gloriously scented.

Iris ‘Holden Clough’.

Allium hollandicum. The prize self-seeder in the garden.

Nectaroscordum siculum, Iris sibirica ‘Caesar’, Smyrnium olusatrum (Alexanders) and Asplenium scolopendrium (Hart’s tongue fern). Plus a load of weeds …

Astrantia ‘Hadspen Blood’.

Clematis ‘Niobe’.

I don’t think the colour reproduction of my camera is very good for photos taken in the garden, as the colours all seem a bit dull and the red and purple tones seem rather ‘off’ to me. But you get the general gist! I love late May in the garden—it’s at its best and everything is so gloriously rampant.