Wild Flower #WednesdayWalk

Welcome to my wild flower #wednesdaywalk (hosted by @tattoodjay ). I didn't make it too far on my walk today. I decided to capture some of the blooms around my house. My flower beds are finally blooming. Starting with some Sweet William.

I have several different color variations of Sweet William.

Last year none of my Sweet William bloomed. Its a perennial and we started from seed last year.

Often perennials don't bloom the first year at least for me 😊

We have a huge cluster of daisies that are starting to bloom.

This is an actual wildflower - Chickory. Lots of these delicate blue flowers in the road ditches right now.

We grew some nasturtium from seed this year. They have really taken off once we got them outside.

You can eat both the flowers and the leaves. We have been adding to salads for a slightly peppery treat.

We overdid it with seedlings as usual so we added some of the nasturtium to some store bought hanging baskets that were a little sparce.

So many flowers I couldn't stop taking pictures. The rudbeckia is just opening up.

I love these rudbeckia. I also have blackeyed susans but these varieties have such a depth of color.

Speaking of blackeyed susans...

They are also in bloom. We even robbed a few from the ditches to fill in our flower beds.

Foxglove is another perennial that we planted last year but didn't bloom until this year.

We have lots of bee balm which was also started last year. It spread and is doing well.

Our milkweed preserve is in its second year and blooming right now. Its just a section of the yard that had some milkweed, I let grow. We are liking it and working on other wildflowers to add. It attracted monarch butterflies all summer last year.

Another experiment was planting some leftover onions from last years harvest. We are letting them go to seed and hopefully self seed for next year.

White cinquefoil is a popular blooming shrub in our area.

It grows very slowly and we cut it back alot last year but it is coming along.

Here's a local field. You can see some daylilies, blackeyed susan, queen anne's lace, and there are also daisies. Its fun to watch the different wildflowers bloom as the season progresses. Mother Nature is pretty good at planning a garden that stays in bloom all summer 🙂

I almost didn't include this photo because its not super quality but I wanted to share. Two deer were hanging in our side yard today. The cattails are along a small creek. The woods are full of mist in the early morning sun. The fenced in area is our garden. Everything is so green here this time of year ... and also green because its been raining everyday for the last week 😁 Not much walking in this #wednesdaywalk. But you know how that goes. Start snapping pictures and then an hour later...