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!
Nature knows, that’s for sure!
Hopped on ‘Lily’ (the mower) this morning. Beau set it to 4.5” for me so I could shear off the WEEDS growing in our yellowed/crispy lawn - it was driving me nuts. Still have the garden area to do, but I needed some breakfast, first.
She runs great after her $500 of repairs. *Rolleyes*
We got an unexpected 1/8” of rain late in the day, yesterday. It tamped down the dust at least - but that’s about all it did.
High 80’s and low 90’s all this week with no chance of rain, again. :( Apple trees are getting a good soaking with the hose again this week. Amazingly, I’ve got a TON of Cherries on, so happy about that. :)