Thank you. Yeah i'm really happy Your photos are gorgeous too. Love that Rudbeckia chicky. i have gayfeather too but not yet in bloom. Almost though. The fuschia is lovely AuntyRach. I love watching the bees on them.
I don't know if you have heard of it but whilst in my hols I made friends with some Canadians. We were talking about gardening etc and one of the ladies was saying how deer kept eating her plants. She was told to mix egg whites with water & spray on all flowers and this would keep the deer away from eating the plants. She did try it and it most certainly worked
A pic of my hosta taken about a month a go. I saw flowers starting to grow under the leaves whilst I was snail hunting today. I have a very large field the other side of the hedge so if a snail is found it goes on a holiday to see the farmer............ I think they enjoy the flight
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The two above are deerproof ......hostas, seemingly, are not this year
In happier times
Thank you. Yeah i'm really happy
Your photos are gorgeous too. Love that Rudbeckia chicky. i have gayfeather too but not yet in bloom. Almost though. The fuschia is lovely AuntyRach. I love watching the bees on them. 
I feel faint.
Chicky - the blighters have certainly licked the plate clean
So did I
. Little beggars 
Do you think they'll come back next year? ( the hostas, that is, the deer are ever present
)
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Love your pics, AuntyRach & Chicky.
After months of drought we did get an abundant shower (for about 10 minutes) today. Far from enough.
Here are some pics taken recently.
Echinacea purpurea JS® 'White Prairie' with Vanessa atalanta, the red admiral butterfly.
Eucryphia x nymansensis flower with common red soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva), The little critter loves those flowers (and my Celinia roses too).
Eucryphia x nymansensis bush with common red soldier beetles (again) and one specimen of Euplagia quadripunctaria, the Jersey tiger.
The ceramics totem created by my wife is currently offset by the vivid color of an unknown variety of Phlox.
A view of the Nort border, looking East. Foreground: Hibiscus syriacus Lavender Chiffon.
Chicky,
I don't know if you have heard of it but whilst in my hols I made friends with some Canadians. We were talking about gardening etc and one of the ladies was saying how deer kept eating her plants. She was told to mix egg whites with water & spray on all flowers and this would keep the deer away from eating the plants. She did try it and it most certainly worked
Wonderful pics all. Hope the storm hasn't been too damaging. Could possibly be Purple Flame Papi Jo or Phoenix Neon Purple