Not Waiting Until It's All Flowering!!

The honey bees and hoverflies are already all over the round thistly thing in the garden and only one of the flowers is covered in florets, most are still spiky or half and half punk rock look a likes.

[Sally Ings]

Certainly diving right on in there!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Excellent close up capture.

[Sheila]

Echinops, Globe thistle, lovely structure and colour and bees love it but I have had to dig out 2/3 this year it was taking over the garden.

[Suzanne]

Your description made me titter! beautiful coloured thistly thing

[wendy frost]

The bees do love these. Lovely capture and colour.

[Catherine]

You managed the bee that I didn't!!! Beautiful shot - love the blue and the blue haze behind.

[Margo Sayer]

Wonderful shade of blue, beautifully captured.