Planting

Sorry I've been negligent- this post is more than a month behind now, as is obvious for the lack of green you see in these pictures. Around mid-April we did a full planting weekend-No house work whatsoever. We ordered a bunch of shrubs from Cornell Cooperative Extension, which has a subsidised program once a year where you can order shrubs and trees CHEAP. The shrubs turned out to be sticks with a couple dangly roots hanging off them, but whatever. We bought about 60 of them. My dad (expert gardener) came up to help plant. It was lovely and warm, the first really warm weekend of the season. Observe:


Below Ben rakes out the backyard, which is full of rocks and was all lumpy (like all the land that was upset in excavating and septic system construction).

Dad, planting Dogwood sticks.

My cowboy honey, relaxing with Cooper, Dad's dog.

Coffee break by the pond.

The 3 of us, at the end of the day.

I was skeptical of these planted sticks making it (there were some, the willows, which didn't even have roots. My dad just poked them in the ground)... Especially since we aren't there to continually water them while they're getting established. But here we are, a month and a half later, and the majority actually have little leaves sprouting off them! We are praying for midweek rain throughout the summer, to help these little guys establish themselves.