Nature Notes for July 2025

The plants in flower in the Gardens during July included:

• Angel's Fishing Rods
• Acanthus spinosus
• Hedge Germander
• Fennel
• Rough hawkbit
• Lythrium (Purple Loosestrife)
• Montbretia
• Lysimachia ciliata "Firecracker"
• Phlox paniculata (violet, pink and white)
• Purple toadflax
• Geraniums
• Honeysuckle

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• Ligularia "The Rocket"
• Astilbe
• Evening primrose
• Allium sphaerocephalon
• Buddleia
• Hemp agrimony
• Eryngium giganteum (Giant Sea Holly "Silver Ghost")
• Scabious
• Golden oregano
• Crocosmia "Lucifer"

Below are photos of some of the plants in flower during July.  ​Click on an image to enlarge.

Wildlife sightings

• Song thrush
• Blackbird
• Speckled wood butterfly
• Large white butterfly
• Bees
• Dragonflies (too fast to photograph)​

Below are some photos of the wildlife in the Gardens during July.  Click on a image to enlarge.