December 2010 - still alive! January...

Can you believe it! My flowers and shrubs are still alive. Yippee!!!

Then in January my husband and father-in-law rented an aerial lift to cut some large mature Box Elder trees in our yard.

Pat and Patrick up in the lift - it goes 40 ft. in the air!

We used a chipper to turn the large branches we removed from the trees into usable bark. I added this to my flower beds and POP! That was the finishing touch they needed. I also noticed that small green sprouts were beginning to emerge from the space between the already existing plants. My bulbs had survived!!!!