October 3, 2007

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  Our garden club took on the four small flower beds at the entrance to Superbia, a retirement village where my mother lives. It's one of our "projects". We got a lot done today, but we're not completely finished with them yet. But even at that they look 200% better than they did. We have a wonderful bunch of ladies in our garden club. We all work together and get along so well . . . not like a lot of ladies groups I can think of.

  

  This is the largest area that we worked on today. It was just a patch of dry dirt with a few weeds before we started. We've planted little patches of monkey grass and spread mulch to help hold in the moisture. Then in a couple weeks we'll have some boulders scattered around in there too.  Then later this fall we'll plant some grape hyacinth and crocus bulbs.  It was a difficult area because it gets mostly shade and we didn't want to plant a lot of ground cover that would compete with the trees for precious moisture. We also had to be careful not to damage the root systems of the three large trees by digging lots of holes for planting shrubs. We're pleased with the results.  

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