David

A tuliptree on a quiet residential side road flowering, brought on by the spell of hot weather in May. I don’t remember the tree having ever flowered previously.

A leafcutter bee as it travelled form flower to flower on a cistus (rock rose) bush.

These columbines (aquilegia) are more likely to be cultivars which are now self-seeding in this currently uncultivated garden, but they are clearly holding their own.

Not so much a wildflower as a cultivar gone feral, these spurges are nevertheless holding their own, spreading in competition with the interlopers in this front garden.

Yet another enemy of the lawn perfectionists, giant plantains raising their heads well over even this unmown grass.

Another wildflower unwelcome to lawn perfectionists are any of the common buttercup species. This one was a meadow buttercup, as shown by its deeply indented leaves.