Posted in Kings Highway Homeschool

A few days ago my boys and I turned this:

Into this:

I have no idea what this yellow flower is or where it came from but it had completely taken over my flower bed and the roots are so thick that it was pushing the rock border out, so it had to go.  I hated wasting such pretty foliage and we thought of the idea to add yellow roses to it and deliver them to an assisted care home.  We often visit these ladies and one gent so we thought this would be a nice way of brightening their day.  We spent the past few weekends begging, borrowing but not stealing bud vases LOL including doing lots of garage sale hopping which turned out to be a great blast for our entire family.  The roses were accepted with multitude of thanks and with bitter sweetness because one of our dear lady friends has gone to be with Jesus since our last visit.  We hope to gather the vases in a week or two and refill them a little more often.  My boy's just love going to visit so this will be a wonderful service project and it is super nice that my flower bed now looks like this:

UPDATE 8/25:  The yellow flower that invaded my bed is called Goldenrod.  I have found out that it spreads by seed and by root so I will probably get to do this again next summer.  It is too bad it takes over like a weed because it really is a very beautiful fluffy flower but it was over growing my zinnas and pushing out the beds. The bumblebees are still a little upset with me LOL.