It is hard to tell in this picture but our Queen Anne's Lace is going to bloom soon. That would be those weeds with white flowers that you see in unmown ditches along the road. Smells a bit like carrots. You may be wondering why I am excited about a weed finally flowering in our yard. We plan our flower garden so that it will provide the food & habitat of each stage in the life of the wildlife we want to see more of. We have tried transplanting this flower many times with no success. Last fall my son suggested harvesting seed heads, so we did. We planted them this spring, but I was beginning to think we had planted them too late. Then today we saw our first stalk. Hopefully there will be plenty of time still for the seed heads to form. If not we will harvest more this fall and scatter them before the first frost. Later.
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