Flowers and stuff

Thought I would give you an update on the downtown Dexter flowers.
You may see my Dad (Dana) and Marilyn in the evenings on Main Street watering the 14 flower barrels, 8 pots that are on the benches and the Town Office Gardens. They fill their old white car trunk with milk jugs and start at one end of the street and end up on the other.
They refill the jugs every so often with the hose by the Town Office.... PHEW! they do a great job! If you are ever down there, stop by and lend a hand.
Darlene and I loaded up our pickups at the Snap of the Dragon on the Dexter/Corinna Road and went to work on the Main Street flowers for almost 4 hours last night. We went thru and dead headed, replanted some, snipped and fertilized.
When we planted everything in May, we tried using new and different things, BUT the big thing is drought tolerant plants. Those barrels on the hot top just suck up any moisture and need more water than you can image. Last year we tried a new thing by putting "pampers" in the bottom of the barrels..... The baby diapers are designed to retain water, so it seemed a logical plan. Actually worked pretty good, but watering is still an almost daily project.

After Darlene and I finished Main Street, he headed our (2) pickups down to Wayside Park. Wayside is such a nice park. The stream is babbling in the background, the Gazebo is so nice, the magical Covered Bridge and of course those nice tables that Mike and the highway department built a few winters ago. If you haven't stop down there for a concert in the park or during Wild West, pack a picnic and a game and stop and and enjoy.

So anyway, Darlene and I cut back the Bleeding Heart and put in a bunch of annuals Darlene donated from her nursery Snap of the Dragon. By the way, all this work is done for free!
The town supplies us with $1500 for the year for supplies, (most of which we don't use, except this year.... I got 15 new barrels for next year and that took a big hunk out of the budget)
All the free labor is a labor of love for our community.
I hope you enjoy the new flowers, and if you ever have a chance or have time and would do some watering, please (did I say please?) give me a call at 924.3067.
C ya during Wild West Weekend!!!!