Tuesday, May 31, 2011

update from the garden 5/29/11-new structures coming along nicely!

 it all starts with scones, apricot scones-sometimes, you have to do something different and today it was scones rather than cake.

 one of the new raised bed structures.  meant to be accessible to those gardening from wheelchairs, it is a great way to build beds quickly and inexpensively.  wendi and shirley are painting the blocks in bright colors.

 plotting and stacking the final layer of blocks

 more painting!

 you gotta love smart gardeners!  alice and lynn moved the potting operations to the shade

 lynn was totaly in the weeds...

 amazing what a little mulch can do to a bed.  the raised bed structures look so much better now.

 the new memorial garden awaits soil and plants

 ninja sam, armed with a water gun seeks hot gardeners to cool off

 and in bloom this week, black and blue salvia

 asclepia tuberosa-native butterfly weed

 coreopsis

 asiatic lily

 the new classroom will be used during the field day event to demonstrate lasagna gardening

and did we mention cicadas?  they are everywhere!!!  can somebody make them go away now?

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