Purple Yellow-Centred Daisies? or Aster? hmmm...

This is my first time joining the Community Garden Journal Challenge held by @simplymike and I'm really glad that I discovered the announcement post and was able to enter the first challenge for 2019.

Seems like a great start to the gardening year. Thank you @simplymike for running the challenge.

There is also a big Thank You going out to one of my readers who first mentioned the garden challenge to me in a comment, I will try my best to find that comment and hopefully I can also muster up a little something to say 'thank you' (and to encourage engagement amongst others).

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She's been struggling through the recent heat, but bloomed she has

This is one of the plants that I planted in springtime. It was a gift from my daughter and since she had bought it at a market stall, we didn't know what species the plant was, other than a 'purple yellow-centred daisy', as was written on (the paddle-pop stick that was) the label.

Despite struggling through our recent bout of hot weather, she has finally bloomed and given me a first peek at her flowers. I still haven't been able to identify the exact variety, however, I do believe that possibly, it's a type of Aster rather than a daisy but I'll have to do more digging (pun intended) to find out for sure.

Much to an amateur photographer's delight and to 'complete' the photo shoot, a little visitor stopped by and allowed me to take a few shots. (tbh, it could just as easily have been a butterfly but I'll take what I can get..).

Anyhoo, I also managed to take some macro shots of the busy critter that turned out so well that I've decided they deserve their very own post, hopefully, to follow either, shortly or tomorrow... (you know how it is)