The rain has made a difference, even to how it was a week ago. For a massive contrast you only have to go back two weeks when hardly any of the clary was flowering and it hadn’t yet started spilling over the edges of the beds. Now we’re also getting a few dots of yellow from the rudbeckias.
The Random Gardener 
we have been hoping for some rain. last night we had over 1 inch
We’ve had quite a bit over the last week or so. At least everything’s looking refreshed and the water butt is full again, but it’s possible to have too much of a good thing!