My sunflowers are out and happy. Happier still are the multiple bumblebees that seem to be constantly attached to the sunflower 'faces'.Here's an 'update' frontyard shot:
I also have to share my finally flowering sweetpeas. Only two plants out of the entire packet actually sprouted (ripped off!). They tried to climb some dead flower stalks at first, and I had to unwrap their tiny tendrils and curl them around some wire which I hung on my front fence (in the laziest of fashions). Then there's the lavender that my mum planted from a cutting when she came down from Sydney a couple of months ago. She introduced me to the world of stealing stalks of other people's plants. Who would've thought cutting a chunk of lavender, sticking the end in honey, and then sticking it in the earth would yield a brand new plant?! Brilliant. When she planted the stalk, it was a mere twig. Now it has branches and flowers...
Lastly, is my 50c Chickenfeed seed garden, which is in the small planter box built into the house at the top of the front stairs. I wouldn't have thought seeds from Chickenfeed would actually grow, but at 50c I thought it was worth finding out. I picked the 'blue mix'. It turns out that the Chickenfeed seeds were much much more effective than the expensive sweetpeas.
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