Wild Flower bed for Bees: Set Up : using the downed tree

Research 1

Golden rod

One of the plants I learned about at the high park steward was golden rod.

Idea: Huglakultur ... is that how you spell it :). I will try to make a flower bed with it to start.

I have a downed tree near my neighbour's fence

I don't have a Chain saw.... so I will see if I can use it for fire wood. Our turn it into a Huglakultur bed.

Research:2
I went for a weekend visit to see what flowers and insects I had and also see what the bee population looks like.

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I have been looking around and keeping my eyes opened for flowers the bees love before the flower season ends here in Toronto.

I got a Two for One September 2nd while I was taking a walk from Volunteering at the Gardiner Museum. Bees and Monarch butterflies.

I sat and watched them for a bit. I tried figuring out what flower this was but failed. So if you know please leave me a comment :)

I have bergamot on my property and it looks similar to this but not exactly. The one on the property is a lighter purple this one is a beautiful deep purple. And this one had smaller flowers. 

I became curious so I picked some really dried flowers and took a look inside.

I think these are super cool looking seeds made for wind dispersal due to the fuzzy tops. Side not. The fuzzy part is soft it made me think of a paint brush.

So anyway. I dried them spread out overnight packages some then put a few to germinate to see if they would. If they don't I will be sad and then maybe I will not need to keep the package I made. 

Ok wait I have a back up plan. I also took some clippings home and put them in water to see if they would root. 

With a bit of luck I will have then to plant next growing season. Yea it has started to get cold.

Its now September 21, 2017 

The clippings i took home have dried up. Too bad I was really hoping.

So I focused my attention to the seeds I pulled from the dried flowers. One. One sprouted. I saw life I was so excited I planted it right away put him in a Ziplock blew air in there closed it crossed my fingers and waited. 2 days later I got this little baby in the picture below. *Happy bear scream*

To be continued.....