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I'm Harvesting Beans Daily Now!

Our garden has more than enough to eat them with dinner every day. We've been in a bit of a drought lately, and I keep waiting for a nice big rainstorm to go and start planting my second batch of green and yellow beans. Why wait for the rain? Because I'm a lazy gardener! Why do work that Mother Nature will gladly do in her own time?

Let's See What's Blooming!

I wait all year for this sweet plant. Hollyhock. The bee's best friend.

It spreads seeds like crazy too, but none were able to grow into a flowering plant, all I could get from the seeds last year were foliage. The reason this hollyhock even grew was because we used to have a greenhouse where it is, and over the years it's grown such strong and deep roots that it comes back every year even in our cool climate.

Most of the poppies have finished blooming now, but that was just the appetizer...

All of the greenish grey round balls you see are the seed pods for the poppies, when they turn dark brown they are ready. I save and share as many seeds as I can, and I'm really getting an abundance now. If you live in Canada, contact me if you'd like any seeds for flowers or veg.

The purple, pink and white flowers are my all time favourite, the cosmo. I love them because they remind me of happy times in childhood, my mother grew them only one year, but they grew so tall, way up to our living room window and I loved looking out that window seeing them floating around in the wind.

I planted a tonne of sunflower seeds this year, but only a few have grown. It's like my garden decides on its own what it wants to do. Last year it was a field of cosmos and sunflowers. This year it really wanted to grow a lot of poppies. I have been letting seeds scatter as they may, so nature has decided what flowers it wants this year. I'm happy either way, it's beautiful!

That is my main Brown Eyed Susan plant. I started with it 4 years ago, and since it has spread so many seeds, I have little Susans popping up all over the place! Many haven't even bloomed yet, more photos will be coming. They are a flower that lasts a long time once it blooms, I have them into October.

Queen Anne's Lace. I have this growing everywhere this year. I've never seen so much of it in my life, our backyard is brimming with it. I thought to look up the symbolism of this flower, what message it has for me and my search came up with this: In the language of flowers, Queen Anne’s Lace represents sanctuary.

Unfortunately the lilies are almost done now, I regret not photographing them while they were in their glory.

Lastly, my little lettuce, beans and squash patch, that still needs more weeding. In the center of the photo you can see a teeny tiny little cosmo. Go little guy go!

That concludes #FUNraiser 14, I hope you enjoyed today's #Ulog Beautiful STEEM FAM! Here are my previous FUNraisers:

FUNraiser #1 Raised $81.04 for @familyprotection

FUNraiser #2 Raised $13.78 for @schoolforsdg4

FUNraiser #3 Raised $47.88 for @comedyopenmic

FUNraiser #4 Raised $36.60 for @cecicastor

FUNraiser #5 Raised $28.05 for @fishyculture

FUNraiser #6 Raised $40.44 for @adollaraday

FUNraiser #7 Raised $21.09 for @phoenixwren

FUNraiser #8 Raised $13.82 for #OpHumanAngels contributors

FUNraiser #9 Raised $18.61 $0.00 for @familyprotection (Flagged on Day 7)

FUNraiser #10 Raised $27.38 $0.00 for @phoenixwren (Flagged on Day 7)

FUNraiser #11 Raised $27.66 $0.00 for @adollaraday (Flagged on Day 7)

FUNraiser #12 Raised $61.10 $0.00 for @openmic (Flagged on Day 7)

FUNraiser #13 Raised ?? for @schoolforsdg4 (Flagged Immediately, still 1 day to vote on it! It's at approximately minus $5.00 right now)

_{Note: I will still be donating to the causes that have had their #FUNraisers flagged. In one more day I will have the funds.}