Happy Friday and happy weekend everyone! With all the rain we have been having, the garden is enjoying being fully hydrated – and I don’t have to water it!  Our lawn still doesn’t look great. It’s green again, but mostly crab grass that flourished in the wet weather. Sigh…

On to the blooms. Flowering tobacco:

I know hummers are supposed to like these, but I never see one at these flowers.

One of my favorite color of snapdragon:

I’m making a mental note to scatter the seed pods from this one around the garden. Or maybe I should really write that down if I want to remember LOL.

I was a little surprised to see the mullein sending up more flowers. I really was not expecting these to bloom this year, so bonus!

There is something like 200 species in the mullein family. It’s actually historically a medicinal plant, although I think most of that is folklore. You do find it in some herbal teas in stores.

Black-eyed Susan and hydrangea.

This hydrangea is now 3 years old. It’s called Strawberry Sundae and it is supposed to have pink-tinged flowers. This is the first year that I have seen the pink and only on the largest blooms. Maybe it just needed to be more mature.

It’s very pretty.

Tons of flowers on the globe thistles now.

It’s bee-palooza back here. 🙂

Second flush of blooms from Enchanted Evening:

This one smells so good! And I need to do some weeding 🙂

We had a nice visitor to the feeder this week. A juvenile downy woodpecker:

One thing about the baby birds – they are not afraid of people. The chickadees sit very close to us and I was maybe 6 feet from this guy. He just kept munching away. In fact, he ate seed the whole time we were eating our lunch outside!

There was a mixture of thistle and safflower seeds in that feeder. I’m pretty sure he was just picking out the safflower.

I’m happy to provide him all the food he wants.

John’s birthday is tomorrow, so whatever he wants to do for the day is on the agenda! Have a great weekend!