While it's hot and dry as the #summer is progressing, the #tomato #plants are beginning to bear ripening #fruit.

Here are some #tomatoes which are just about ready. I like to see the #Sun reflecting off their smooth shiny surfaces.

This bunch contains #red, #amber and #green ones.

Of course none of them would have come about without #pollinators and so here are a couple of images of #insects on neighbouring the #flowers of #rocket plants.

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I was staring at the #garden when having dinner just now and saw what looked like a dark motionless blob hanging below some #Allium #Florets. When I got closer I found it was this #bumblebee which was suspended from its hind legs only. I think it may be dead although I've know #bees to fall asleep on these plants before. But if it is dead, wouldn't it have fallen off? I don't know. If it's still there in the morning, I will presume it has expired. If not, it's sleeping in a funky way.

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The plants in the #garden, in association with altruistic #insects, are doing rather well. The #Tomatoes, which are in reality about 2 cm in diameter, are at various stages of ripeness.

Here's a group of yet #green ones on a single #stalk.

And here's a close up of another bunch.

Cropping the above image, you can really see some fine detail including fine hairs and yellow dust-like particles on both the #fruit and the stalk.

There are a few #red tomatoes and here's a few amongst verdant surroundings.

Here, I actually like the texture of the background piece of #wood in contrast with the foreground living #plant,

Switching to another plant, I managed to capture the image of this #Bumblebee. They spend only moments on each #RunnerBean #flower before moving onto the next one and so it's difficult to get a decent #photograph of them in action.

Here you can see little runner beans developing. Typically, they will eventually become 20-30+ cm in length in #autumn.

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Two perspectives of the same #bee taken a moment apart.

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The #pollinators are out in numbers today as it's bright and #sunny.

A #Bumblebee on a #RunnerBean #Flower.

These #yellow flowers are also popular with bees.

And here are several bees amongst a little jungle of flowers.

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A stroll through the #garden at lunchtime. It's a bright, sunny day here today with very good light conditions and so I just wandered around to see what was of interest to #photograph.

In a pale which is used to store #water for watering #plants, you can see what look like #mosquitoes skating on the surface of the water using #SurfaceTension to keep them on top. No doubt, the females will be laying #eggs. You can see #ripples in the water and reflections of the plants around as well as a few #RosePetals which have fallen into the pale.

The #blackberry plants are flowering. Here are some #white #flowers.

And others are #lilac.

The #RunnerBeans plants are currently less than a metre tall but will grow to close to 3 m in height. However, they're already flowering.

Finally, here's the obligatory #Bumblebee on #Allium #florets but you can see another guest at this hotel, which seems to be a small wasp.

I like the bumblebee so much that here she is again in a cropped version of the above image at full resolution.

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#Evening #flowers

In direct evening #sunlight, these flowers are from an #onion #plant and you can see they're about to bloom. They usually attract #bumblebees, #bees and other #pollinators. At the back you can still see the casing that is still partially attached to the stem,

Here's another bunch of #florets (sorry I don't know what plant it is) with a #fly feeding on them.

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Don't disturb the leaves!

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hello tiny pollinator. This is a Small Blue Butterfly. Did we run out of names at some stage?
piccy1: in the golden light of the sunburnt (somewhat soggy atm) land
and Piccy2: with white balance auto-adjusted with #GIMP
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Today we're featuring a couple of other #pollinators. Here are two #hoverflies.

The first one is about the size of a bee.

The other is about a third or half of the size of the former.

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A stroll around the back #garden. My spouse is the person responsible for most of this bounty.

The #tomatoes have appreciated the hot conditions of the #summer and are bearing #flowers and #fruit.

#Allium #flowers appear in a variety of #colours and cluster sizes.

#Strawberries have already produced #fruit but are still #flowering too.

Meanwhile, it is too early for the #pumpkin patch to produce #squashes yet but the flowers are also edible. We've had just a few in dishes. You can also see #dill flowers here and as the subject in the subsequent #photograph.

There are a few ornamental flowers too which also help to attract #pollinators.

The #grapes are also ripening on the #vine and we've already enjoyed some of the #VineLeaves for dinner.

The #RunnerBeans continues to #flower even though it has borne #fruit.

The #apples are getting bigger too.

Finally, the #lettuce plants are growing tall and producing seeds for next year.

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While the weather is awful in Germany and Belgium, here it feels like #summer with temperatures in the high twenties and #sunshine all day. The #allium #flowers have matured and are now attracting #pollinators. (I can't remember whether these are #onions or #SpringOninons.) Here's a close up of a #Bumblebee which was flower hopping. If you look under its right #wing, you can see another #insect riding on it. I don't know if it's a parasite or whether it just happened to be hitching a ride as I can't see it in other #photographs. My hunch is that it is a parasite.

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These #RunnerBean #plants are currently #blooming and as such as big tourist attraction or theme park for #bumblebees and other #pollinators.

Here are some close up #photographs of our stripy, furry visitors. They only seemed to spend fractions of a second at each flower and so it was difficult to catch them in the act.

For a bit of variety, here's a #ladybird on a leaf, probably on its way hunting for aphids.

Finally, here's another #bee, this time on a #raspberry plant.

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After yesterday's rain, there was a sunny start to today. #Bees are out making the most of the interval until the next shower. Here a #bumblebee is seen on a #flower of a #RunnerBean #plant.

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