Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Rose Garden

I haven't been up to much so I thought I'd post some stuff that I never got around to posting.

In April? May? Rachel and I volunteered a Saturday to "dead head"* at the San Jose rose garden near my work. The garden was being dedicated that day by the Mayor and Rachel and I had a blast getting rained on, smelling flowers, and spreading feed pellets!

* "dead head" means to cut off the dead flowers and leaves off the bush to promote healthy growth. Not as much fun as it sounds.

A city councilman spoke (Rachel and I nicknamed him "El Guapo"!)


The Mayor is in the middle of the group ready to cut the ribbon for the "test bed". This garden is one out of 35 in the whole US to test new breeds of roses! We are very proud!


These are White Canadian Star roses


I don't remember the name of these...


These are Playboys! Hee hee!!!