Work, Play, Dreaming

Good day, everyone! What did you do over the weekend?

In spite of our bitter cold weather, work still has to be done.

We were busy. We moved two hydrangea bushes which saw their last day, to the compost pile, and replaced them with culvert planters for strawberries. Now, to come up with a dear deterrent. Wire, domes with netting, bovine blood? I think we will do two of the above~~later today.
Do not let our beautiful green grass fool you. The perennials just do not want to come forth with all the bitter cold wind we have been having with our sunshine. Thank goodness for the sunshine. The Wendy Peony is so named because it came from my niece, Wendy, but she does not know the color of this one. I sure appreciate my nieces.
How do you fill your flower beds? Bill will do anything for me as long as he can play with his bucket,
even if it means sifting sand, gravel and clay. I see hypertufas in the future.
And these are Staci Strawberries from my niece, Staci. She did not know if these were everbearing or June berries, so we will find out soon enough. I think these will go into the culvert planters. They are beautiful plants, divided from her garden to mine.
We never thank each other for plants or they will not grow. Instead, we just exchange what we don't have from each others gardens. It's the way we have been getting a variety of perennials in our family, without the outrageous cost of them these days. It works out beautifully. My son is digging Yellow Flags and Phlox for Staci from one of my root-bound beds that soon will be lawn.
Staci's daughters were loving the tire swing! Just look at those smiles.
Higher! says Brooke, No! says, Bailey!
And Grandlove Sy, he was sitting on the trunk of this hemlock just dreaming of the summer day that he could take a dip in the creek or rock-hop, without his winter jacket on...
Hard work, play and daydreams. That's what keeps us young forever.

Thanks for stopping and

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