Tomorrow is a big day. The young entrepreneur we hired to do our meditation garden flagstone pathway is starting our project tomorrow!! Hurray!
The price is considerably lower than our first quote. About 1/4 to 1/5 the price of the first contractor. Thank you, Jesus!
While this kid is young, a local master gardener who has his own business is his mentor. This man writes a column for our county newspaper and, in a stroke of luck for us, goes to church with us. It took me a while to put two and two together on who he was, and what he did for a living.
Anyway, the master gardener is ready to retire. He can’t do the heavy lifting anymore. He’s developed back problems and arthritis. So the young man with his team does the heavy work, and we luck out on getting the brains and the brawn at a reasonable price!
We’re also getting a bonus. The Master Gardener landscaper was able to find me several Turtlehead Chelone plants. I had been looking for them all summer after discovering them on a weekend visit to Jeffersonville, IN (which is the Indiana side of the Ohio River and Louisville). Nobody had them in stock. That’s our friend’s specialty though, finding hard to find plants.
This is what they look like, though the ones he brought are more purple than pink, which I think is very pretty. https://www.monrovia.com/hot-lips-turtlehead.html
Turtleheads - I love them! I had a 2 mile section of AT that I maintained for years & the end of my section was at a creek where Turtleheads grew. When you have a section for a long time, you get very familiar with the wild flowers & where they grow, certain trees (especially the big, very old ones), & where you are likely to see certain animals or birds.
The Turtleheads were one of those special flowers for me, also Monkshood, Turk’s Cap Lily, & Trilliums.
Your meditation garden should be a very special place.
Your new garden is going to be gorgeous!
It is so worth ‘cultivating’ strong young men into our lives as we age. ;)