All day in the garden today. There is so much still in bloom. One of my favourite flowers is this saxifrage fortunei. It is maddeningly slow to increase, but worth the wait.

saxifraga fortunei

saxifraga fortunei

Some of the maples are in their most dramatic phase.

Acer palmatum Matsukaze

Harlequin ladybird

And I have just found a bud on the miniature white nerine I was given last year – happy gardener.