Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Just a little bit obessive

My Dad gave us some transplants last summer from his garden and flower beds -- some lilies of the valley, a couple of lilac bushes, and a bunch of raspberry shoots.

Ed very carefully planted them all (or not so carefully in some cases) and we have been watching anxiously this spring to see signs that they made it through the winter. Everything looks great (yay Ed!) and seems to be flourishing.

The raspberries, as is their wont, had sent out little runners into the yard and their long vines from last season are stretching their tendrils in the path of the lawn mower. Ed did not want to mow them off accidentally so he transplanted all the runners back to the fence and then very carefully wrapped each vine in a spiral of twine and tied them individually to the fence. Between both sides of the fence there are like 50 vines. He is so cute.