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Hello everyone, welcome back to the garden as you can see things are really growing really kind of hitting the stride
Lots of zinnias and sunflowers, but we'll get to that in a second
I know I'm really excited to show you all the different colors and harvests
Lots of first flower harvest in this video as well
But first I wanted to mention that this video is brought to you by Kingsyard
Now they didn't pay me, but they did send me this stuff for free
to try out and see what I think and of course, I will give my honest opinion because
You know transparency. It's it's the good stuff. Anyway, I am trying out this glass bird feeder
This is a hummingbird feeder as you can see
The parts are pretty simple and as you would expect from a hummingbird feeder
The glass has this marbled appearance that marble I think is a wrap
It's not the actual glass as far as I can tell
Nice metal base good construction just putting this thing together a little plastic piece is actually an ant moat
Which is interesting because it's not something that I'd ever had on a hummingbird feeder before
I've never really had too much trouble with ants in my feeders. Usually it's raccoons
I wish there was some kind of raccoon guard that I could put on here
I
Don't know why the raccoons insist on drinking the hummingbird, you know solution
Your guys is a good man. I guess it's good. Who knows. Hopefully their teeth aren't rotting out because of it
Anyway, I filled this up and put it up and it was absolutely gorgeous
Still waiting on the Hummers to get here for the first time
They also sent me this touch of nature bird bath as you can see in the little picture
It is a rail mounted bird bath
I was hoping there was a little you know solar fountain in there
Like on the picture on the front of the box, unfortunately, there wasn't but this was super easy to assemble
Seemed to be a good quality material. We have this big I guess you'd call this a C clamp
I'm not even sure if you call this a C clamp, honestly
but it just screws into the base of this and I just clamped that to my rail and
Secured it
Water again can't wait patiently for the birds in the garden this gigantic tree fell
This one was really a bummer. This tree was 16 feet around
This is such a huge tree the pictures do not do it justice and just barely missed the house. I'm talking centimeters
It came within centimeters of just crushing the entire end of the house
It crushed the hydrangea bushes and lilies, but I mean whatever that's not a big deal
Going into the garden and looking at some of the sunflowers and things
I had some harvests that I wanted to show you a lot of these sunflowers look a little bit rough
It's my fault. I should have you know
Grabbed them at their peak so that I could donate them to cut flower donations and everything
But there was several days of thunderstorms that kind of just set the schedule way back
So that was a little bit problematic in terms of getting the best flowers possible
fortunately, I was able to get several of these buckets to donate and
Get to good homes as you can see lots of pretty varieties in here
And these will be in a full sunflower tour video coming up. Hopefully sometime soon
whenever they are all finished blooming also wanted to show you the gladiolus that have started to bloom and
So far the ones that have bloomed absolutely none of them are the variety that I ordered
I mean that's to be expected to some extent from importers, but come on
I mean so far not a single one of them has been what I've ordered
I don't know. Anyway, this pink one is very pretty the hummingbirds seem to have loved this one as well
So I'm definitely not complaining. I'll keep you guys up to date with full tour on those also
Next harvested from the garden. I did pick some of
those
Oriental lilies. These are the Casablanca lilies
These are the ones that did not get smashed by the tree all I've did is you know
All I've done is just remove those pollen bits off. So they're not
Staining out the petals these smell heavenly. They smell so good. The scent is amazing
I just I can't say enough good things about how these smell
That's really about it for this video
I know that it was a short one and a quick one
But there's not really too much going on aside from the fact that there's a gigantic tree
Laying in the yard. Somebody quoted me
$12,000 to come clean it up. That's not happening. Whatever. It's no big wolf. Who cares?
I hope that it is sunny wherever you are. I hope the weather is really nice. Thank you for supporting the channel
It really does mean a lot to me and I mean I want to say it would not be possible without you
Hope you're having a really great day, and I will talk to y'all later
