No more than a spit

I was so looking forward to a good down-pour!   OK, so not much good for my neighbours' barbeques but they can cope....   We literally had no more than enough to make a pattern of spots on the ground....   So I have had to water my most recent acquisitions, planted today - purple herbaceous Clematis Lord Herschel, a dwarf Salvia Gregii, Savannah Purple - which has the most astonishingly black-currant-smelling leaves and an unusual white geranium whose label I have lost already!

But it has been beautiful gardening weather and the lack of any extremes has kept it all pretty much controllable.   The white paeonies, roses and clematis are all trying to outdo one another presently and geraniums are coming into their own.   Hard to do it justice in a photo, so I won't try....   Here are a few details in stead.  They show R. "Warm Welcome", left, a self-set opium poppy and a classic-shaped bud of R. "Iceberg" - a plant given to me by my Mum who bought it in Woolworth's!   It's a worderful, reliable scented white rose which seems to flower most of the season.