It's been a pretty darn indifferent (okay, horrible) start to summer with single-digit temps, weeks of drizzle and no sun to speak of. The last few days have been a bit better so the Lovely R decided to document what, if anything, was going on in the upper garden.
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The shasta daisies are looking okay, if a bit floppy. Lots of runner bean flowers but bugger-all set yet. ^
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^ We moved a bunch of random dahlias and heleniums down to a hot, dry slope bed and they've been going off.
^ The lavetera mallow has leant right out to one side, smothering a nice young Bourbon rose I just planted and generally making a bloody nuisance of itself, but I don't have the heart to chop it down. I think this dahlia is Bishop of Llandalf or something like that. It's impressive purple with fire-red flowers late in the season. > | 
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v This is our teenage quince tree and we probably shouldn't be allowing it to set fruit yet, but I was too much of a little bitch to pick them off once they were pollinated. Oh well. Can't remember the name of the toffee-esque dahlia below but it's gorgeous.
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Sigh- isn't this flower (above right) gorgeous? It's a species of Toadflax, Linaria triornithophora or 'Three Birds Flying', which really is visual onomatopoeia. I bought it from a local purveyor of niche and rare plants and has popped up from nowhere to flower like this in the last week or so.
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Clockwise from top left- Crepuscule rose, Nymph O/T lily (warts and all- it's a been a bad lily year), delicious purple Teucrium hercanicum, and a nice little Gaillardia ( I will never be able to remember how to spell that shit ever.) 
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v A bumblebee on the Helenium. I think this is 'Waltraut' or perhaps 'Moerheim Beauty'. I highly recommend these criminally under-appreciated daisies.
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