Everyone was HOT today.. Chucky made himself a canopy bed, Sunny D laid in the dirt, Obsidian didn’t stick around long and Flint wanted to sit on my lap. Freddy just looked angry and tired.. but we got a lot of stuff done outside and we didn’t get any more rain, thank goodness. 🌧️
I never got my pawpaw seeds planted since it started snowing right as I was about to plant them and I realized my bag of soil was frozen… 😢
Now everything has thawed and it’s been raining nonstop today but it let up just long enough for me to plant the 8 buckets of pawpaw seeds my daddy saved me from his trees. 🌱💚
I planted 24 little bags of herbs yesterday and 28 bags of flowers today.. just trying to make the most of these rainy days!! 🌸💚
Looks like I’m not the only one that’s been waiting weeks for this flower to bloom 💛🐝🌼
I put the cover on the new clear greenhouse .. and put the little green one back together today 🤩💪 .. I’m not ready for cold weather but my plants will be. 💚
Some people call them invasive weeds.. but I call morning glories beautiful garden flowers. I get to see them bloom for just part of a day but I love them. This is what the Bible tells us about morning glories:
God tells Moses and Aaron “in the morning, you shall see the glory of the LORD” (Exodus 16:7). What does the glory of the LORD look like? “Like a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground” (Exodus 16:14).
I have these blooming down by the road! 💛 Partridge Pea is an annual and a legume so it fixes soil nitrogen and forms attractive maroon seed pods in the fall.
💛 This wildflower attracts bees and butterflies and the seed pods are eaten by gamebirds and songbirds. The plant provides excellent cover for gamebirds and browse for deer. Leaves collapse when touched, earning it the common name Sensitive-plant.
This sunflower is starting to fade but the bumblebees love it still. 🐝☀️🌻 They’re so fun to watch.. I could sit here all day. 💛🖤💛
❤️🧡💛 Gaillardia or blanket flower is a group of perennials in the Asteraceae (daisy) family native to North and South America.
❤️The plant is named after Maître Gaillard de Charentonneau, an enthusiastic botanist in France.
🧡The name blanket flower may have come from the resemblance of the flowers to the brightly patterned Native American blankets in similar colors, the ability of wild species to completely cover the ground with a blanket of color, or even the legend of a Native American weaver whose grave was always covered with blooming flowers that were as beautifully colored as the blankets she had made.
💛Native Americans made tea from Gaillardia to treat gastroenteritis and sore eyes. The Kiowa thought of it as good luck. ❤️🧡💛
🌻💛🖤 The sunflower is native to North America and first was grown as a crop by indigenous tribes over 4,500 years ago.
Native Americans cultivated the sunflower from the original bushy, multi-headed plant to produce a single-stemmed plant bearing a large flower.
The crop’s many uses included milling for flour or meal production to make bread and cakes. Seeds were roasted, cracked and eaten whole, either as a snack or mixed with other grains and nuts and made into a type of granola. 🖤💛🌻
I Love Wildflowers 