Day 080/19. Summer all the time nearer....

Our Pieris is in flower and attracting a few bees braving the cool weather.
Pieris is a genus of seven species of shrubs native to mountain regions of eastern and southern Asia, eastern North America and Cuba.

But this one grows very well in southern England.

Known commonly in North America as andromedas or fetterbushes, us Brits call them Flame of the Forest....