I took my own advice and stopped to look for butterflies in the sunshine at a garden centre. There was a table of herbs and a table of alpine plants. The flutter of butterfly wings was coming from one spot, so I went to investigate. I found several Small Tortoiseshells on flowers of what were labelled only as "alpine plants".



They look like Field Scabious to me! My husband took the next photograph:



Was I wearing the right colour?
When I arrived home, I spotted a White butterfly on Lobelia "Cambridge Blue" in my hanging basket. It moved to the Lobelia "Sapphire" on the other side of the basket. I'm not sure whether it was a Small White or a Large White.

There are several Small Tortoiseshell butterflies here; 4 were on the Field Scabious just now.