Lilies: My Lily garden on the Isle of Lewis Scotland, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Mary-Anne and Peter, I am dumb as a stump! Too funny, are the plants real or fake? And is that good looking guy in the chair one of those card board cut outs of someone famous?

I love seeing the GS, Boss in that lush looking garden. Thanks.

My gals have been digging under a stone wall to root out moles/voles and destroying some nice bulbs and plants a few times a year. So this week, as I was yelling at them once again for their mischief, I finally realized that the stone wall needed to go, not my dear dogs. And just coincidentally, I have been planning to build an 35 foot cascading endless stream on the other side of the house and am in great need of rocks. So the wall will be taken down and moved and re-purposed. The wall was no longer needed anyway as new beds had been built beyond it. I figure I can easily create a gentle slope where the wall was and replant the area with more plants. Smart dogs! Sad Voles!

Here is a collage of the gals. Winnie is the bigger white one, and Nell is the little black one. They were 4 in June and from the same litter. Nell was the runt. The dad is a working border collie on the mainland and the mom belongs to our Island Vet. Three from the litter were white and fluffy coated and three were black and sleek coated. One of the siblings went to a transplanted Scotsmen whose dad is a sheep farmer in Scotland. He named him Glenn after his dad's best working dog. His parents came over this summer from Scotland and wanted to met the litter mates. It was so sweet to see this dog man so enjoying our gals. I swear they understood him, but, oh my, his brogue was so thick that I didn't catch much of what he said. Off to dig my stream! Patti