
๐๐ค Sleepy bumblebee ๐


๐ป๐๐ค 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 cropโs 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. ๐ค๐๐ป


๐I 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 didnโt think it survived. So sadโฆ but what can I do? I waited just to make sure it wasnโt 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.. thereโs coleus growing everywhere! Itโs 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. Iโll have to try to collect the seeds from these so next year I can have even more.. after all, thereโs no such thing as too many plants! ๐

Flint and Obsidian are becoming pretty good little gardeners. ๐คช๐ฅฐ They wonโt let me do anything without them. ๐ฑ๐ค๐ฑ



Zinnias are one of my favorites!! I canโt have too many. I still have 93 days until our first frost.. I might plant more today so Iโll have blooms in the fall too! ๐๐ธ๐ผ

by Anita1030
๐๐ค๐ 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. ๐๐ค๐
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. ๐ฆ

by Anita1030
I love this new sign I found at Tractor Supply today!!๐ฆAnd yes, my butterflies can read โบ๏ธ
