Allotment flowers

We've been doing our bit for the bees at the allotment. Earlier this year my two granddaughters sowed some flowers seeds in front of the polytunnel. It was a flower mix to attract bees and butterflies.  I think we overdid the sowing or we should have thinned the seedlings out, but they grew, fighting for space. There's a lot of yellow and blue and it looks really good.  We sowed nasturtium along the edge of the rhubarb bed, calendula next to the comfrey and sunflowers along the fence.

Then there are the pots of sweet peas, the trough with osteospurnum, the lavender and the bed behind the polytunnel where I planted hardy geraniums, veronica and borage. The result has been lots of bees, they just love the flowers.  The butterflies are all cabbage white at the moment and we are trying hard to keep them off the cabbages.  They are welcome on the flowers, but not on the brassicas.