Rex Trulove
Many hours after I started the task, I was able to plant the first flowers. In the picture, there is a marigold and a pansy. There is also a weed that I initially missed. Notice how poor the soil looks. That isn’t deceiving. The soil was nothing but fill dirt, but the heat of the summer was beginning and I wanted to get some flowers in before it got too hot to work.
Even then, I knew that I would have a lot more work ahead of me. For one thing, along the other building, there were three massive clumps of irises that hadn’t been separated for 20 years and they were surrounded by rocks. As it turned out, the roots were five layers deep. It did, however, mean that I’d have irises to plant alongside both buildings once they were separated.
