Anyway, my dear dad (who loves flowers - his mother had quite the flower gardens outside her kitchen door & around their garden) picked up a bag of wildflower mix at the store. I did not want to plant it, having had poor results from such mixes previously. He begged and begged so I finally planted a raised bed with it. Guess what I got?? GRASS. What a pain in the patootie.
Yesterday, I finally tackled the bed, which also had a couple of "volunteer" zinnias in it from last year - 2 in particular are gorgeous and extra large for zinnias so I kept them & a couple of others I liked. After pulling grass, I had to stake the zinnias up - with shallow roots/loose dirt, they wouldn't stay upright on their own. I also weeded the walkway & hauled more mulch/chips to cover it more deeply, & planted zinnia seeds in the now-clean bed for a fall flower garden. Anyway, here are "before" & "after". I should have taken a 'before' pic before I pulled the first grass ... there's enough left that you can probably tell what a mess it was!
While I was working in the flower bed, the bees kept coming, the Hummingbirds were at the feeder (hanging on one corner of the garden fence), & this hummingbird moth showed up - really interesting.
