Sunflowers are like cats

I really like sunflowers. I think they are quite pretty and very cheerful. So it made sense to buy several varieties of seeds and plant a pretty row of many different heights/types of sunflowers. Guess how many sprouted, much less bloomed, this year. Yep, zero. None. Not so much as a glimmer. Now, I also […]

Flower ID 2 – Common Ragweed

Like many people apparently, I always thought that ragweed was another name for goldenrod.  Turns out that goldenrod is not, in fact, the bad guy of allergy season.  Apparently, common ragweed grows around goldenrod and is the actual culprit but gets overshadowed by the big, showy yellow flowers.  This is actually common ragweed.  I keep […]

Flower Identification

Since we live out here in the relative middle of nowhere, we tend to see several different kinds of beasts and also have several different types of plants around us.  I will sometimes get it into my head to find out exactly what something is called.  In this instance, there was this plant out by […]