[Marcella]

“I do NOT do ornamental for it's own sake.”

I recall a post where you said sun flowers (think it was sun flowers) were growing. Are those the bulbs you were talking about being on the property?

So, I don't need flowers to attract bees?

All the roses that died were David Austin roses and I used those due to their being strong and resisting disease. They were such beautiful pink roses of all shades. There was one that was pink with yellow tinge around the edges but it stubbornly was all yellow. That one yellow bush among the pinks.

I'll tell you guys something else. I can't look at a seed and picture anything growing from it - it just looks like a seed of nothing to me. That fault of mine may be changing as I know a seed made those Kentucky Wonder Bean plants come up. But I dealt with seeds all day yesterday while planting those things and they still look like nothing to me.

[greeneyes]

LOL. Lots of pretty flower plants that are good for eating or making oil or flour or beverages. LOL

[JRandomFreeper]

I EAT sunflowers as sunflower butter or render them for oil. That's a food crop.

There's about 4 types of very, very old ornamental flowers here that my neighbor insisted I propogate, since they have been here forever. I spent 2 hours this year on that, and she did a lot of the work.

Compare and contrast to what I do for food crops. Or tobacco. ;)

I leave plenty of weeds in the rest of the yard, so there are lots of flowers to bring bees in.

/johnny