Busy Days at Vincelli's Garden Centre

Even during a pandemic people need bedding plants, trees, bushes, hanging plants, annuals and perennials for their gardens. My garden is doing well this year with almost all perennials and a few pots on the patio planted with annuals. I never throw out any plants, I just move them to a different location when needed and expand my garden. We've just had several days of  +30 C weather (one day was an all-time record at +36.5 C), the garden centers are now open and many people are out buying plants for their gardens.

Gardening, Mid-September in 2019

I've added a new section to the garden, as seen above

And now planted, cone flowers, bee balm, irises, day lilies, mint, and by the path raspberries. I planned this last summer, that's what gardening is, other than work in the garden, it's thinking and planning what you're going to do next year...

Final three photos, honey bees in the garden. It wasn't always this way, only for the last three years or so, but now honey bees are common in the city.

Video of Painted Lady Butterfly

Here is a Painted Lady butterfly on an echinacea bloom in our backyard. Lots of fun growing the flowers and then seeing many butterflies on them...

"For a garden, as Bacon observes, is the purest of human pleasures and the greatest refreshment of the spirit of man; and even idle and ignorant people who cannot distinguish Leptosiphon hybridus from Kaulfussia amelloides and would rather languish away in a wilderness than break their backs with dibbling and weeding may get a good deal of pleasant conversation out of it, especially if they know the old-fashioned names of the commoner sorts of flowers and are both tolerably well acquainted with the minor Elizabethan lyrists." Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, p. 454