An innocent-looking pot of Marigolds and Lobelia produced one of the biggest surprises this morning: a Large Skipper butterfly. (This isn't one of my better pictures but at least I got the photograph).
The garden's now maturing nicely but with all the flowers and foliage about, I don't necessarily notice the butterflies until I've disturbed them. That was certainly the situation with the Large Skipper at the front; it flew up and then came back down to the pot.

The back garden also had a couple of visitors - Small Tortoiseshells. Now there's quite a choice of plants for the discerning butterfly at the moment, so what was the big attraction? Candytuft. The first Small Tortoiseshell visited Candytuft and Sweet William.