Skip the quick weight loss diets talk and let’s talk flowers!
Marigolds: These annual beauties grow easily, last a long time and you can plant them almost anywhere. Make a whole bed of different varieties of marigolds in your yard.
Sunflowers: Although most people envision the hugely tall, nodding sunflowers, there are also many smaller varieties that you can mix and match in a sunflower garden.
Morning Glories: Got room to spare along a fence or trellis? Put these standard beauties in for a long-lasting and easy summer display that will go on and on throughout the growing season. What’s more, these guys will volunteer and will be back the next season, too!
Daylilies: Although they have their name for a reason, what they lack in longitude they more than make up for in their bright hues and sheer number of blossoms.
Have you ever included a child or children actively in the planning and execution of a garden? Create a love of gardening in children while they are yet children and teach them to garden along with you. As they grow in their gardening know-how, you can even give them their own little plot to tend and cultivate.
No, we are not engaging in any diet pill reviews here – we’re creating gardeners!
Gather a pencil and paper and show a child how to plan a garden on paper. Let the child choose what he or she wants to grow. Teach a child how to plant seeds and coax them to grow. Share their eagerness and excitement as those first seeds germinate and sprout.
Even a small child will enjoy digging in the dirt just for the sake of digging.
Show children how to create a hummingbird garden or a sunflower house with seeds. The love of gardening you instill will last a lifetime.
As the bees buzz around flowers and vegetables in home gardens, one’s mind turns to the miraculous creation of these tiny workers. Time to wander away from cares about such things as acne treatments and focus on the lowly honeybee for a moment or two.
Honeybees live in colonies and make honey. During the winter months, they snuggle together to keep warm. There is one queen in each colony, who lays all the eggs. Drones mate with the queen. Female workers make the honey.
Only honeybees die when they use their stingers. All other bee varieties will go on to sting another day. This is due to a barbed stinger that pulls away from the bees abdomen when it stings, causing the bee to die.
