I LOVE Long Weekends!
How did you kick off the unofficial start of SUMMER? We spent the entire weekend in our backyard finishing up the last details so that we can look forward a long lazy summer enjoying it with friends and family. We were able to plant all the boxwood balls and put our new boxwood obelisk and spiral trees in their pots. We intend on adding more white roses around the boxwood obelisk. We tried to plant the hydrangeas around the tree but its forbidding roots put and end to that goal. We must wait for our gardener Luis to come with his sharp shovel and hack them out to accommodate them. We fashioned 3 thresholds from wood we found at the salvage yard, gluing them and nailing them onto some sturdy plywood. We painted them Paris Gray. We are not quite finished as we need to paint the edges and bury them in the gravel, but we really like they way they turned out. ...