Weedy or not

Before:

At the best of the garden...but note some weeds going onto the front steps! Somewhere is a hidden pot with a geranium.

Clearly I let the weeds go along with coleus that just went crazy this year

And the giant now has dying and moldy leaves full of ants.

The other morning I got outside before the sun took over the front entrance to my cottage...and cut back the weedy peppermint...as well as the sunflower of which I've been so proud.
Well, you can only live in a weedy entrance-way for so long!

Taking the peppermint back I again could find the daylillies, and this poor leggy geranium

After...a pile of mint on a piece of plastic, to die back today before hauling over to be picked up.

Once I would have harvested the mint, but I find I never make tea from my own leaves.  They just aren't equal to the commercial varieties.

I'm hoping the ants will get their fill of whatever is still nutritious in the remains of the sunflower.

Today's quote:

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

nature by the front door

How's the giant sunflower?

Aug 6

I know I sound like the parent of an only child, who had a report card with all A's.
Well, there's just the one sunflower, where other folks have a garden full.

only the very center is of interest to bees, Aug 6

Aug 7

Aug 8

Aug 8

Aug 9 morning

I've now tied it to the porch rail so it won't fall completely over, in case the weight of all those seeds starts to pull it to the ground.

Aug 9 evening

Aug 9 evening

The other good news...by letting my peppermint go to flower/seed, I'm now feeding lots of bees their nectar!  I wonder what that honey will taste like!

Aug 10 evening...no more petals, and a sad looking flower, but still somehow upright

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bumblebee backside

Aug 12

Today's quote:

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Donna Roberts