Do you remember when Ken and I visited Dan and Jean back in April and Jean had given me a packet of sunflower seeds? Well let me tell you these Lemon Queen Sunflowers are the mother of all bee attracting flowers!
This particular sunflower is part of the Sunflower project to help scientists understand the challenges facing our bees today. One is to count the number of bees that land on a flower in one half an hour. I can tell you that I have NEVER had so many bees in my yard as I have once these flowers bloomed.
You can bet that next year I am going to plant lots of these sunflowers…..early and continuously.
Some other good news on the garden front is my corn….yay!
Ken and I managed to tie up the stalks that had fallen over. We really didn’t hold out much hope for anything to grow, but I couldn’t bring myself to pull it out and I couldn’t just leave it laying on the ground.
Imagine our surprise when we saw the little ears growing! Of course the yield won’t be as good as it could be as some of those stalks are bunched too tightly together, but any corn is better than none at all, right?
You know that Autumn can’t be far away when your butternut squash is looking like this.
This morning we woke up to a very chilly 40 degree morning……it felt GREAT after the humidity we have had most of August.
Of course my summer loving friends would disagree with me, but give me these fall temps any day. 🙂
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There has been some knitting as well…….same as last blog post.
I have been a monogamous grrl this summer, plugging away on the bee blob. I can’t think of anything I would rather knit in the summer to be honest with you.
Don’t you just love how those little bees line up so nicely in a row?
The blob is almost finished and will make her debut next week.
The Woolen Rabbit 
The sunflower is so beautiful and how wonderful it attracts so many bees. Your garden looks as if it survived the wet and will held a nice harvest for fall. The bee blob will be fabulous!
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That sunflower picture is fantastic! I would be interested in planting some of these sunflowers, too. Want to order the seeds together?
And I love the weather here today. Sunny and warm with no humidity. Hooray!
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What a spectacular photo! You should enter it in a photo contest.
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Sounds like a great plant for all gardeners. 34F here this morning. Colder tonight. Brrr….!
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Kim- No, I’m with you. Give me cooler weather every time.
The sunflowers are beautiful.
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That is an extremely pretty bee blob.
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Gorgeous sunflower photo….I will have to try them again next year. Last year the squirrels got them! Lovely shawl, too.
I’m done with the heat, all four days of it! Ready to plant some fall-winter garden beds as soon as my seed order arrives.
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there’s nothing quite so lovely as a field of sunflowers 😉
I wish you lived closer.. I have a nest of mason bees right beside my front door, and wish I had someone to come and relocate them for me. I just cannot bring myself to harm them, no matter how deathly allergic I am.
Can’t wait to see the shawl!
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Gorgeous sun flowers and knitting.
I was talking to a bee farmer recently, he said between disease in the hives and cell phone signals disorienting the bees, they’re being wiped out in our area.
I prefer fall weather too, it’s my favourite time of the year. 🙂
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I love sunflowers! I had a volunteer one sprout on the edge of the lawn thanks to a chipmunk. Lived long enough to flower and then a deer knocked it over chewing the lower leaves. I brought it in a put in a vase. It seemed to attract more of the small beneficial bees. Next year I’ll plant a bunch of the Lemon Queens. It would make a great colorway- at least the center of it.
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Bee Blob is coming along nicely.
OMG! That is one beauty of a sunflower! I’ll plant mine for sure next year. I think I still could have planted them when we got here. We’ve seldom been out of the triple digits. Supposed to get way down to 91 tomorrow!! lol. I did plant a little garden. The only thing that’s really taking is the basil, cukes (it’s going nuts) and Meyer Lemon tree. I think it was just too hot for the tomatoes. I need to do one sowing in the Spring and just start them in July I think.
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That is a lovely color, and well named for a sunflower. I stopped planting them because the squirrels destroyed them routinely.
You are far wiser to be sticking to one project. Monogamy actually gets knitting results.
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Sunflowers, bees and yarn. How can life be so perfect?
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Great photo! We had gads of bees at the raspberries this year but I discounted them as honey bees bc their bodies were more black that yellow stripes. Your post got me thinking and I did a little reading and found this “Although the body color of honey bees varies between species and some honey bees have predominantly black bodies, almost all honey bees have varying dark-to-light striations.” Learn something(hopefully many things) every day.
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The sunflower looks like a lady peeking over a fan at the camera (: A sultry flower. Love it! I wish I was the bee laying in it. love ya Mom -ash
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wow, those sunflowers are gorgeous; a great color! and the bee blob; i’m on the edge of my seat waiting to see it blocked out! please send me some nice photos when it’s done!
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Ahh, I love the sunflowers! Where’s the quote???? I enjoy those. I’m quite the quote collector, and I do look forward to yours!
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Kim I enjoy your blog but this is truly a lovely visual one. The pics are amazing and the knitting is well, as Margene said, fabulous!
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