Added more flowers to the raised garden beds

So today I added a few more flowers to our raised garden beds to help attract even more beneficial insects. Even while the flowers were sitting waiting to be planted, they were being visited by strange looking flying insects. Very cool!

I can't remember all the names off hand, but I know some were marigolds, english daisy, cyclamen and pansy. I also was able to find some common sage and a couple globe artichoke's. I started one globe artichoke in the raised garden bed and will put the other globe artichoke into a 5 gallon bucket that I can move around into different locations if I need to.

I'll try and post some photos of the new flowers as well as pics of the alfalfa hay mulch.

Going to buy some wild flower seeds

Thinking about making a trip over to desert botanical gardens in phoenix to pick up some wild  flower seeds. The time is right now to throw some seeds out in the yard and garden. Just a heads up on the wild flower seeds from desert botanical garden in phoenix, I spoke with someone there over the phone and was told they charge a flat rate of $12 to ship wild flower seeds! I couldn't believe what I was told when I heard that price. Seriously, that is a total rip off for shipping and handling for wild flower seeds. I guess that how they get you to come down to the desert botanical gardens lol.