Geraniums

 

Geranium oxoneanum

Thank goodness for geraniums. They flower for ages, have all sorts of colours and wonderful to say, the slugs don't like them. I have about eight in the garden, from the tiny G. sanguineum with its bright pink flowers (really over now), to the tall G. psilostemon, a vigorous plant which has bright magenta flowers with black centres and veins - it flowers all summer. 

Geranium psilostemon, will carry on flowering all summer

As well as those I have two pink ones, G. Rose Clair, and G. oxoneanum, 

Geranium Rose Clair

Geranium oxoneanum

an almost black one (G. Black Widow) that I keep in the back of the garden for bees, which love it,  and two blue ones, Johnson's Blue,  not too big and very pretty and Rosanne, which is big with largish flowers, good for supressing weeds and loved by bees and other insects. 

Geranium Rosanne

I also have the wild one, G. pratense or meadow cranesbill, in the lawn, together with the wild yellow rattle, which partly feeds off the grass, so helping to keep it down. 

All the geraniums are good at attracting bees - here are two with honey bees.

And one with a bumble bee