The Photographic Gardening Diary: Plant Compositions in July

Rose "Weiße Immensee" with a heavenly warm scent growing over Pinus mugo and Choisya. Its long shoots are best hanging down from a wall.

And here in combination with the huge Macleaya cordata to the right in front of the copper beech.

Polygonum "Firetail" with Allium sphaerocephalon mixed with dark red Heuchera in flower, Geranium himalayense and light blue Campanula "Pritchards Variety".

The white balls of Hydrangea "Annabelle" can be seen in many gardens now. These are "in-camera image overlays"  - to avoid photoshop, which I hate, because I am so inept at it and never have the patience. 

I had a few surprise visitors crawling or flying in ....

two snails conjugating in our driveway

Kleiner Kohlweißling (Pieris rapae)

Looks like a dangerous hornet and was at least 35 mm long, but is just "mimikry" - a copy-cat ,  a very large hover-fly, as can easily be recognized by her extra large eyes: a "Schwebfliege". 

The garden is full of bumble bees and honey-bees now - here on Allium sphaerocephalon

.. on a hosta flower