Still Feeling Cornish...Corney?

August and fresh corn go hand in hand, right?  So I'm going to stitch the ear of corn from "Farmer's Market" by The Prairie Schooler.  I do like most of the food motifs in this chart, but decided to start small and try out one for size - maybe someday I'll get around to stitching all twelve squares.   

Thank goodness for pollinators!  No corn without them, and I surely couldn't garden without their help.

I rely on the efforts of bees and hummingbirds and other nameless beneficial insects.

Much like a cross stitch designer, when I garden, I try to create small, pleasing motifs.  This is a study in blue. 

This is a study in burgundy.

I think of everything (literally 200 pots of plants), this is my favorite.

I love the blue-green sempervivums and sedums, with the beige and cream distressed planting box.

But then I also really like this combination of sedums - colors and textures both. 

The bees though don't much care for the sedums as they are generally not in bloom.