Our Trees are Planted

The city of Anaheim has this wonderful program called Tree Power. The program will deliver up to six shade trees to a residence in the interest of saving energy and greening the city.

So shortly after returning from Texas I called the program coordinator. The young man came with a notebook with pictures of trees available. For the front we chose an orchid tree and a crepe myrtle. For the backyard we chose an avocado tree--our old one has not been very bountiful and had to go.

After a couple of weeks the trees were delivered, but then we had to actually plant them! That's where a wonderful service organization comes to the rescue. GOALS (Growth Opportunities through Athletics Learning and Service) is a Disney group started back when Mr Eisner was the chief there. Daniel and Les came this morning with shovels, a tarp, and not much else but brawn, politeness and a big dosage of goodwill. These two young men (Les came all the way from Riverside) are not professional gardeners, just two service-oriented young men. They asked for nothing, but Hubby gave them some of our Kadota figs. All they accepted from me was a cold drink of water.

Here is one of the trees that they planted for us. We will have to stake the trees next week when we borrow the equipment from the city.

I can now try to continue with the fall planting. Here are some of the chrysanthemums I picked up at Lowe's last week. I am looking forward to filling in some other spots in the front yard.