Fruitful Friday

We had another productive Friday with perfect weather. Marv, Terry, Marianne and Janice were here today and just about everybody had to do some watering as it seems to be drying out a bit. Next week looks cooler with a nice chance of precipitation. Dr. Gredler, Kay, Rose, Hal and Doris all helped out as well. Rick and Tony starting repairing some of the boulder retaining walls that were damaged and affected by the floods. Heavy work but they're doing well. Tomorrow is a big work day with lots of plans. We hope to excavate out the old dry gravel sea in the Japanese garden (lots of work) and replace all of that gravel (45 cubic yards) with new, clean gravel. We've wanted to do this for awhile and will be happy once this is done. The existing "sea" was under water for three months and the siltation has prompted this project. Beautiful celosia (Celosia plumosa) below. This variety, 'China Town', has a great combination of bright red plumes and maroon foliage. What a dynamite plant and it looks great with the golden pineapple sage (Salvia elegans 'Golden Delicious') in the background.