Marvelous Monday of Plant Therapy! :-)

Pink Magic Roses

Pink Pampas Grass

Mystic Merlin Mallow

 Today was a great day! I got the kitchen cleaned up from the weekend. (It was uncharacteristically messy.) Since I received plants from Springhill Nursery  on Friday, I was eager to get them planted today. So, I transplanted 6 Hostas, planted 3 pink magic roses, a pink pampas grass, 2 milk and honey astilbes, a comfry plant, and 3 mystic merlin mallows (6-8 ft. flowering towers). I weeded the back flowerbeds, and trimmed three trees. Got a lot done...

Milk and Honey Astilbe

However, I smashed my pinky finger, and will probably lose the nail. While weeding around the cactus, I got cactus spines all in my hand. Pulling dead branches out of a large rose bush (which has four deep red blooms), I got scratches and thorns from fingers to elbow. I twisted my ankle, cut my leg, and removed half of a knuckle. After pulling weeds with bare hands all day, I discovered that most of them were poison ivy. Yeah. By dark, I was sunburned and had a extreme headache. I have head to toe muscle pain, but it is a good pain...an intense pain that reminds me that I have to rely totally on God, day to day. Without His power, I can do nothing. Well, that is just a day in the life of ME. Actually, it really was a great day: sunny...slight breeze...perfect for planting in my beautiful yard and flowerbeds. I LOVE it here.

I even had Jehovah Witnesses come by today and comment about how beautiful my yard is. ha ha  God makes good stuff! The pond still needs some work, since the pump was broken for over a year before we moved here, but we have 9 bright orange fish that thawed out a couple of weeks ago, and are doing well. Out lily pads are spreading and the ornamental pond grass is starting to show out of the water.

I sit on my back porch swing and can barely fathom God's goodness to me. I don't deserve it, but He loves me. So many blessings. If it is so beautiful here, can you image how breathtaking it is in Heaven? We couldn't even mentally handle the vastness of beauty without our new, glorified bodies. Can't wait to get there!

Tomorrow, I expect 10 cascading petunias for all my hanging planters. {sigh}