I love coming home to our pretty pink roses blooming like crazy.  They always remind me of mum.  She loved those simplicity roses.

 Candice came over to visit on her lunch hour.  She is such a sweetheart and brought me these beautiful lilies to welcome me home...oh and also this awesome chicken plate!  How cool is that!

 We had a nice Sunday afternoon outside on the patio. The fuchsias are all blooming so pretty now. I'm so glad I got a bunch of them when they were  small and cheap!

 Kelley and KC had been working on finishing up the garden wall and getting the garden ready to plant.  Kelley and I went and picked out a bunch of vegetable plants over to Lambert floral after I got home.  We were looking for some grape plants and found some nice ones at western garden out on 90th south.  I guess with Aunt Sherry gone now, we won't be getting grapes from her anymore. Dan said they are cleaning out the house and getting it ready to sell.   That makes me sad to think about it.  We have been getting them from her every fall for as long as I can remember.  She was the last one left from mum's side of the family and will be missed for much more than her grapes.  Anyway, we thought we ought to start growing our own grapes so I'm excited to see how they work out.

 

We went over to the Western Garden in West Valley to see if they had any strawberry plants.  I was so happy to run into Charlotte Bachelor there.  She has worked there for about 20 years and is about running the place.  It was really good to talk to her and catch up on her life. She showed us some good strawberry plants, then picked out a few strawberry plants that were a different variety.  They were so cute and had little pink flowers.  She asked if we would just take them and try them, then let her know how we liked them cause they were a new variety.  Super nice!

So the next day, we planted the garden.  When we were at Cal Ranch, we saw this wire stuff we thought would make a nice trellis for the beans to grow up so we bought one.  Then we decided we could use more of that type of thing for the squash and cucumbers to grow up.  Kelley had taken the wire off the back fence that we had used in the years before so he had that to work with.  So he decided to make his own version of the arched trellis.

I don't think there is anything that guy can't do!  He got some PVC pipe, then heated it with his blow torch till it would bend.  Then they formed it into the right arch and let it cool.  Then they screwed the wire that we had onto boards for support, then to the pipe  and  there you have it!  Even better trellis than the one we bought at Cal-Ranch! 

 Lizzy did not like the blow torch at all!  She wanted to go in the house really bad till they were all finished.

 I love to watch these two working together

 Those are some sad raspberries we tried to transplant there in the back ground.  They had really taken over that whole end of the garden and we wanted to thin them out so we dug some up and moved them against the wall.  Stacey gave me some she had thinned out of her garden too and I'm excited about those because she had such a nice crop last year.  We still had a lot that we wanted to take out, but didn't want to just junk them so I put on face book that any one could come and get them if they wanted some.  Colleen Poole and Colleen Gittins both came and got some so I was glad they could use them.

Our rock garden is starting to bloom now too.  I love this clematis we got last year. 

 I had a good time digging in the dirt.  I got a flat of cosmos and got them planted.  It's a real hot area there up against the house, but these dainty little flowers are tougher than they look.  They have thrived here the past few years.

 Then I went out in the front yard and got busy weeding and moving ferns.  They had really taken over that whole front flower bed.  The Hostas were buried somewhere under there.  So I started moving the ferns.  They will seriously grow anywhere, so it was not hard on them to move them around. They looked just as perky after they were transplanted.

 Found the Hostas and planted a flat of Salvia in front of them.  I think it's going to be real nice when they all start blooming.

 The lily's in the pond have started blooming too.  They are so pretty!  I do love summertime!