The Great Sunflower Project!

Most gardeners (and even non-gardeners) have heard the recent news about the disappearing honey bees. Well, one group is trying to help figure out what is going on and hopefully find a solution to the problem. And guess what? You can be a part of it!

The great sunflower project is a people powered research project that is taking place everywhere! If you have a computer and a patch of land, you can help the research. We got our sunflower seeds from the project and just got them planted. I can’t wait for them to grow and to start watching for bees. I think it’s going to be really interesting, and fun too!

If you sign up by June 15th you can still participate this year and receive your sunflower seeds for free. If you don’t want to wait for free seeds, what they sent are “Helianthus annuus”. Come join the hunt for bees, won’t you?

Not much sun, lots of rain!

Everything has been put on hold in the garden… we actually have had the heater running! In June! This makes me extra sad because I won some very cool Malibu solar spotlights from a contest on Home Construction Improvement (thanks Todd).

I plan to use them in our front garden to highlight some plantings. We love solar around here and have a lot of solar powered garden accents, but these solar spotlights are pretty different! Usually solar lights have the panel right on the light, but these are set up a bit more like the low voltage garden lights you would install, meaning that they are connected to each other with a wire, and the actual solar panel can be placed a little further off.

Anyway, if and when it stops raining around here I will get them set up and take a photo. And if you are looking for solar lights, or other green options for the garden, check out Amazon’s new Green Home and Garden shop! There are some very cool things I would love to have (adding stuff to my wis hlist as we speak).

Simple Garden Project

This is what happens when I am in the garden and realize that I have a broken fountain, a bag of dirt, and some pansys that need a home! I turn the broken fountain into a fun planter! Super easy project, and the most fun part is that it still acts like a bit of a fountain when the little “pots” have too much water.

*originally posted at Aimee’s Adventures*

Thanks!

Thanks for all the great input about where to find skulls. I am trying to decide the best route, probably a mix of some skulls with rocks. The next step is to find the rocks!

I am thinking of going past some construction sites and asking if I can take some rocks. Our ground is incredibly rocky here, and usually any attempt at planting something (even something like a petunia) will lead to running right into a rock. I hope that they won’t mind if I take some of the rocks, since I know there will be plenty!

We are in the middle of a family emergency right now though, my dad just had his 4th stroke, so it’s going to be some time before things return back to normal and I can get started on the garden plan. Just wanted to say thanks to all who left great links of where to find skulls!