Quiet people planting
Our 40th wedding anniversary is just 37 days away. Van and I spent most of the week working in our front yard restoring our broken drip irrigation sprinkler system. Yesterday we loaded a yard of dark red bark fines into Tula (Honda Ridgeline) and bought some plants from Haase Greenhouse on the south hill and Gibson's Nursery in the valley. Today we planted perennial blue salvia, dahlias, dark red geraniums, pink dahlias, pink petunias, and tomorrow we are adding a new rose bush. It has been a long time since we dressed the front yard. From the driveway it is all purples, reds, and blues around our yellow day lilies and Spiriva until the east end of the front steps where it transitions to pinks, purples, and reds among the barbary, burning bush, and golden privet shrubs. The weather has been cooperative with temperatures in the 70's, sun out, not too hot or windy to enjoy wearing straw hats, digging in the dirt, and listening to bees buzz happily in our lave...