My Friendship Garden

My garden wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't for the give-and-take of plants and ideas with friends and family.

- the path I made into my front garden

- Matty, my neighbor boy friend, called this "junk" until I added the driftwood, now he calls it "art" or "pinata" since the wood swings in the breeze

- I am really enjoying this new plant in my shade garden...a toad lily.
A freind from the gym, Ellen, gave me this after she hired me to help with her garden.

- the garden I made over Tigger's burial spot

- a shady part of my front garden (rock is from Dad who carried it a distance from a river)

- Nancy gave me this years ago. My neighbor, Melinda, loves them...they remind her of sherbert.

- a delphanium from Bekah blooming nicely during summer '07

- a friend visiting a butterfly bush (a gift from students)

- my farm (vegetable garden...this year: pickling cucumbers, beans, 2 kinds of tomatoes, rhubarb and swiss chard)

- after 3 years of waiting for seeds from Alison to grow, I got this nice surprise

- looking up at the rotating mobile I made and have hanging over the back yard
(I welded the rings and made the glass disks in a glass-blowing class)

- Carol gave me the gecho/lizard sculpture, I assembled the rest

- we call these our anniversary roses since we have 2 bushes, got them on our second anniversary, and they are called Forth of July (we were married July 8th)