I’ve got BIG Hollyhock plans for after the barn is painted!
It would be lovely to have a big row of them up against the white barn wall. I would see it from the front porch - where I spend a lot of time reading and/or raising the current puppy. :)
Picked the first dahlia to take to a Father’s Day cookout.
It is so gorgeous ... the petals, near the edges, almost have an iridescent quality - hard to describe.
Regarding Father’s Day:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4161711/posts?page=11#11
The Goldfinches are making me laugh! I have a large raised bed just outside of the ‘hummingbird garden’ where I have been growing sunflowers, mostly the giant ones - my dad loved the sunflowers & I planted them for him.
This year, I didn’t plant any, but a dozen ‘volunteers’ came up (surprised me, actually). What is so funny, the sunflowers have buds on them now that have not opened yet and the Goldfinches are already sitting in the sunflowers, checking things out & waiting. It’s obvious they know what’s coming!
I tried several times to germinate tithonia seeds this spring with no luck. The bed where I had tithonia last year is the zinnia bed this year and lo and behold ....I have volunteer tithonia coming up in the zinnias!