Bees!!!!

As some of you may well know, I love bees.  I am allergic, and if the bee is unwarrented in it's approach of me I get quite fussy, but in my garden, bees are the real deal.Bees are great and I love them and welcome them, and some day I really want to make a beehutch so I can gather honey and all that other great stuff.  Until then, the sunflower with its amazing draw to the bees will have to serve as my observation deck!

Four sunnies and 3 bees, I think I'm doing well so far!

Solar Flare

Put on your sunglassess folks!!!

These are the brightest sunflowers I've ever grown and I didn't even plant them. Second generations from last year's garden.  Beautiful.  These two blooms are off the biggest of the plants which has 3 more blooms waiting to come open.  The others are waiting to get big enough with only one bloom per plant.

 

 FEAST YOUR EYES!

So many pictures this week so I apologize for the spuradic spacing on these, still getting use to the new format.



These coleus have finally all arrived after multiple trips over several days to bring them all here.  The one on the left is the green coleus like the one's that nicky had in her garden last year, and the one below is the one that was suppose to be orange, however after thriving a little bit more its turned burgendy. A nice shade, but not orange.  They fit though and that's what matters, very pretty. There are I BELIEVE, five of these coleus.  Three green with stripey tongues, and two of the suppose to be oranges.  All of them are putting off their fancy blue tassles now and hopefully after harvest time I can grow some very cute orangish coleus next year!

And as I was watering the garden in the back I discovered this lively mud covered fellow, larking about in the begonia plant where there happen to be an abundance of muck.  The kids found him particularly adorable, but only Jonathan really wanted to get up close and touch him.  I dub this frog, King Frogger! He wasn't very happy when he was discovered and escaped under the neighbor's fence and we haven't seen him since.


And as promised I brought in a picture of the picasso petunias that have the green lips with purple pink insides.  They are very neat and we have them on a hanger we got. Quite a sturdy little thing considering the size of the hanger, 10 inch basket, and we aquired it for a small fee at the Deals.  For the record the very best things can be found at dollar stores and Deals is one of the better ones because they also carry thing in the range of three dollars, like pruners.  Might just have to invest in that one.  So many things to plant and to water that I honestly spend 45 minutes now just watering the front and back.  I love it!!!  Such fun getting to see the colors grow. God had an eye when he made petunias I have to say.

 That's all for today, but two days makes a big difference and next time! Tequila Sunrise Petunias, Sparklers, and Tomatos might make an appearance!!!