Let It Rain - Garden Bursting into Bloom and New Plants

 Cat Mint - this is leap year for mine.

We had a good rain yesterday, with more predicted for today and tomorrow. I watered the Cat Mint to move it and dug up one gigantic plant today.

A fun part of Creation Gardening is seeing how the plant follow their engineering and succeed in their particular corner of God's world.

Wiki:

Lyrics as published in 1861 in A Garland of Songs:

We plough the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land;
But it is fed and watered by God's almighty hand:
He sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain,
The breezes and the sunshine, and soft refreshing rain.

Chorus All good gifts around us
Are sent from heaven above,
Then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord
For all His love.

He only is the maker of all things near and far;
He paints the wayside flower, He lights the evening star;
The winds and waves obey Him, by Him the birds are fed;
Much more to us, His children, He gives our daily bread.

Chorus
We thank Thee, then, O Father, for all things bright and good,
The seed time and the harvest, our life, our health, and food;
No gifts have we to offer, for all Thy love imparts,
But that which Thou desirest, our humble, thankful hearts.

Chorus

Verse 3 was revised to make it better suited to the harvest in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1868 Appendix:

We thank Thee, then, O Father, for all things bright and good,
The seed time and the harvest, our life, our health, and food;
Accept the gifts we offer, for all Thy love imparts,
But what Thou most desirest, our humble, thankful hearts.

The hymn references Acts 14:17 (verse 1), James 1:17 (chorus), Psalms 65:7 and Matthew 6:26 (verse 2, line 3).

 Imagine Mountain Mint shoulder high and buzzing with beneficial life.

More on Cat Mint - and Mountain Mint
Last year was leap year for Mountain Mint, an even taller plant, so the roots are deeper and tougher.

Since watering combined with rain, I decided to dislodge one Cat Mint and cut some Mountain Mint away from its mother lode.

In both cases, the soil was soft, but the roots were more like tangled cords. I had to go deep, as they say at GCU, to get under the roots and bring them up.

This meant I could set up several Cat and Mountain Mint locations in the Butterfly Garden, the area first known for crabgrass weeds, then for a disastrous hay bale mess, and next - a tomato plant massacre.

The hottest and sunniest garden area, usually on the south or west side, is good for tomatoes (pests allowing) and corn (ditto) or butterfly plants. 

I decided on mints that mound instead of Catnip and othermints than take over the entire yard. Mints have tiny flowers that attract bees and other pollinators.

Good mints - Cat Mint, Mountain Mint, Bergamot (purple).

Bad mints - Cat Nip, Peppermint, Scarlet Bee Balm. 
Scarlet Bee Balm would be good in an area that is going wild. The floppy plants will form a lot of red flowers and attract Hummingbirds and bees. And it is easy to remove later.