
🌸 I love this!! 🌼


We’ve had so much rain this year!! Good for the plants .. but the wind is going crazy today! 🌱 💨 This is what Nyxie thinks about all this rain and wind blowing over her flowers 🌸🐱



💜I got an aero garden last year and the first thing I planted was coleus. Watching it grow was so fun! When it got big enough, I put it in pots on the back deck and it got huge! It was in my greenhouse over the winter when a storm blew the cover off and I didn’t think it survived. So sad… but what can I do? I waited just to make sure it wasn’t coming back, then used the dirt in those pots to plant other things.. and planted marigolds and painted daisies in the pots. Next thing I know.. there’s coleus growing everywhere! It’s in my coneflower, the milkweed, my sunflowers, the rose mallow.. even in the asparagus! It dropped seeds everywhere, not just in its own pots, but in pots that were near it too. How exciting!! Now I have tons of coleus growing when at first, I thought it was a goner. I’ll have to try to collect the seeds from these so next year I can have even more.. after all, there’s no such thing as too many plants! 💚

Flint and Obsidian are becoming pretty good little gardeners. 🤪🥰 They won’t let me do anything without them. 🐱🖤🐱



Zinnias are one of my favorites!! I can’t have too many. I still have 93 days until our first frost.. I might plant more today so I’ll have blooms in the fall too! 💖🌸🌼

I noticed that a few of my gourds have these pretty white blooms.. and they only bloom in the evening.. so i think it’s weird.. how do flowers get pollinated if they are only blooming at nighttime when the butterflies and bees are sleeping?! Of course I google, and the answer is like, duh!!.. nocturnal insects.. like MOTHS! 🤩 How cool!


by Anita1030
🧡🎃Before Halloween was widely celebrated in the United States, kids started taking pumpkins — which were overwhelmingly plentiful during the months of September and October — and carving faces into them. After sticking a candle in the pumpkin to light it up, kids would run around frightening people with the spooky-looking objects. The so-called “carved pumpkin trick” became so popular that there were even how-to articles printed in magazines as early as 1842.🎃🧡

by Anita1030
💛🖤💛 The hairy mountain mint is blooming! We already love it because of the minty leaves.. but now we have more flowers for the bees!.. and we LOVE our pollinators. 💛🖤💛
The flowers are very attractive to many kinds of insects, including honeybees, cuckoo bees, leaf-cutting bees, Halictid bees, Halictid cuckoo bees, thread-waisted wasps, the Great Golden Digger Wasp, the Black Grasshopper Wasp, bee wolves, paper wasps, Eumenine wasps, Syrphid flies, bee flies, thick-headed flies, Tachinid flies, butterflies, and skippers. 🦋
