Last weekend was a big gardening weekend for little miss Anna. She planted all the containers on the porch. The selection of seeds for this year included sweet peas (already planted a few weeks ago and coming up), nasturtiums, cosmos, morning glories, moon flowers, poppies, cat grass, basil, chives, dill, parsley and cilantro. Most seeds she got in her Easter basket, some we saved from last year. She also planted some purchased plants: orange mint, 2 jalepenos and 2 banana peppers. And she tended some plants that came up on their own: cat mint, sunflowers (a thank-you from our birds for putting out sunflower seeds all winter) and chamomile. Our thyme, which we have had for years, didn't make it - not enough snow cover this winter. Chloe was Anna's little helper....
And both cats seemed to enjoy the cat mint...
Then Anna moved on to planting the remaining seeds in the yard, some poppies, cosmos and black-eyed susans....
Whenever Anna found a grub or caterpillar, she hand-fed it to Buttercup, who is beginning to expect grubs whenever she sees Anna, and is very vocal when Anna doesn't have a treat for her. Here she is thinking I might have a grub for her (yuck, I don't think so)...
She's a cutie - the outdoor pet we've had the longest. Here is another perspective on Buttercup...
More on this weekend's gardening activities, including the prepped Butterfly Garden, to come.
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