Birdfeeding

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today is mostly sunny and sweltering.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

EDIT 7/29/25 -- I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/29/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I found a cinnamon fern sprouting in the forest garden.  :D  I never know what will suddenly spring up from things I planted earlier.

EDIT 7/29/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a pair of mourning doves.

EDIT 7/29/25 -- I checked the garden but nothing was ripe.

However, I think I've got a good start on my landrace zinnias.  There is a nice cluster of purple and red ones where I planted the seeds gathered from the Charleston Food Forest last fall.  :D  Now I just have to hope that these do a good job of setting seed.

EDIT 7/29/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 7/29/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 7/29/25 -- I walked out to the north end of the yard today.  The telephone pole garden has balsam, gladioli, sunflowers, and zinnias blooming.  :D  Naked ladies are putting up flower stalks nearby, but none have opened yet.

I picked a couple of blackberries from the late-fruiting bush.  Wildflowers are blooming all over the prairie garden.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

Comments

[ribirdnerd]

Good luck with the zinnias!

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I really hope that I can collect seeds from these. It would be so nice to have my own landrace of zinnias.