Thanks - I’m good with purple flowers.
The goldfinches are having a hey-day around here. My volunteer sunflowers have become seed heads & they’re working them over. They’re all over my zinnias & the tithonia has really started blooming so they’ll be on that soon as well. I have a hard time getting tithonia seeds because they pick the seed cones bare in a flash. Mom has some coneflowers (2 or 3) in a wildflower patch (came in the seed package a couple years ago & reseed themselves) and the goldfinches are all over those as well. Another colorful flower that I don’t think are gourmet salad bar items for deer are blanket flowers - she’s got some of those in that wildflower patch as well & I’d like to grow them in other places next year.
We are loaded with bluebirds - I need to clean out the nest boxes. Dad put up some extra boxes (3) out in the fields & I think every one had a nest in it. This is in addition to the ones near the house, another 3 boxes with nests in at least 2. The hummers are in greater numbers this year than in years prior - must have had some successful nests. My SIL has her feeder on the porch and no joke, it’s hard to do anything on that end because the hummers are constantly flying around, challenging/chasing each other, etc. Fun to watch!
My brother has ‘spa’ plans for the big fat doe who is likely munching down the sedums, but when it’s that time of year (just around the corner: Oct. 2 early archery), she’ll disappear.
I’ve been seeing two twin 8-point bucks and a lot of fat doe all summer long.
Same thing here; I think they KNOW and go on a cruise when the season opens, LOL!