Mondays Sure Come Fast!

And all of the sudden it's Monday! This week will go fast with the plant sale looming on Saturday and many plant deliveries and pick-ups occurring this week as well. The structure above is called a Ma' Chii' (ma chee-i). My spelling is absolutely wrong on this but the structure itself is an authentic Japanese resting structure (not a tea house). It is positioned to allow a nice shaded area that provides a view across the fern & moss garden. We've nicknamed it the "make out" Ma' Chii' due to the amorous activities that continue to unravel in that location. Oh well. I hope they take time to enjoy the 250 varieties of ferns in close proximity.

The structure to the left is our fishing pier which was originally built to provide an overlook across the pond and had dimensions to accomodate all accessible fishing. We now call it the observation deck but fishing is still quite popular here. We've had a struggle with fishing at the gardens as there are some teenagers that have really abused the priviledge by leaving garbage, trampling our shoreline beds, rolling our shoreline boulders in the water (looking for worms underneath), cutting up their fish on our benches and leaving the debris, fishing our Japanese koi out of our ornamental ponds....etc... It's a few bad apples but they've really taken their toll. They know when the grounds staff isn't there and swoop in later to do as they please. I wish they would just respect the gardens more. Below is one of our upcoming projects. We'll be installing these limestone steps in our woodland walk garden and will actually be planting most of it this Saturday.