Wildflower Project

(Updated again)


This top photo was taken June 1 - about a month after I planted the wildflower seeds. I planted a clover path to make it easier to walk around in the wildflowers. It took off pretty well.


This next photo was taken on June 23 - 3 weeks later. Quite a few of the wildflowers were blooming at that point.





These next 2 were taken on July 14 - 3 more weeks.

It's going pretty well. It helps to cut down on weeds to have many desirable plants growing fairly close together.

We've been getting a number of hummingbirds eating from the flowers, as well as goldfinches. And bees and butterflies, of course.
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These last 2 photos were taken around September 2 - about 7 weeks after the 2 previous photos. The hummingbirds at full swing these days. They love the little red flowers (that unfortunately don't show up in the larger view). And the few cosmos and such that are hanging on. I have sugar water out as well - but it's much more fun seeing them flit around from flower to flower - stopping to rest on various dried out plants.

It has really been drying out around here. There had been nearly no rain during August - with highs mostly in the 90 - 100 range. I was out east during the worst of it (enjoying highs in the 60s).

Since I've been back - I was trying to keep some of the trees that I had planted earlier this year from dying with some occasional watering. I think we've lost a lot of them.

Yesterday, it seemed that our well water must be getting low. After quite a bit of watering (between trees and wildflowers and vegetables) - the water from our faucets was coming in rather cloudy.

Here it is September 6th and we finally got a little rain today. I hope we get more soon - we need about 5 inches or more. Crops like corn around here are all dried up. Some may be able to be harvested - but it's surely not growing anymore.