I would love to hear other's tales of magical experiences in the garden.

Mine is this:

Last year, in the late spring, I was At Home Depot getting necessities. As always, I exited through the garden section so I could rubberneck. I did not find any thing that day (mainly because my funds were tight).

There was a problem in the line with the customer at the checkout and I was forced to wait quite a while. I was in the sun and it was quite hot. Just before the line began to move again, I saw them. Hanging in the hot sun were many net bags of LadyBugs. I was so sad. I felt sure that they were going to perish in the heat.

I consoled myself by getting two bags. I brought them home, put them in the shade and turned on the hose and sprayed many areas with much water.

By then, it was dusk and I released them in as many wet areas as I could and went inside. I never saw any of them again.

About 4 weeks ago, (and nearly a year later) I came home from a long day of work. It was late afternoon as I drove into the back of our property to park my work van. Vaguely, I noticed that there were insects about. I thought they were an early mass of green bottle flies that show up around here due to the livestock. As I finished taking my work out of the van, I noticed again that there were MANY, MANY of these flying around and after one landed on my arm, I took a better look.

There were hundreds and hundreds upon hundreds of lady bugs flying all over our 2+ acres. I was astounded! They not only were flying but they were also crawling all over our out buildings. As I looked to the top of our mini barn (which is our shed and is painted white) I saw a masses of them crawling around in the sun light.

It was quite a thrilling experience and I feel that Nature sent this experience in thanks to me for my mini-rescue last year.