Summer flowers

This sunflower is surrounded by sweetbite tomatoes, which could be the reason it has not been attacked by the marauding cockatoos.  Fingers crossed this flower will produce seeds for next season.

A neighbour gave me a few gladioli corms and this one in apricot hue is the first to flower. 

I am considering myself fortunate to have this one flower from the dahlia bush.  In the past I would get masses of dahlias right up till autumn.  I have to find another spot in the garden with enough sunshine and not too many invasive roots from the big trees.

Violas in a pot to bring some colours.

The soil in this west facing bit of garden is not the best but compost and cow manure are helping the plants to produce some cheerful sunflowers and hollyhocks.