Serve Day at Granada

In January, Philip & Abby joined the Trustees committee at GHFC. They volunteered to be in charge of completely gutting and redoing the garden area between the sanctuary and the church offices. For the last month, they have spent Fridays (since Philip only works 4 days a week due to declining work) and Saturdays on it. Philip drew the plans for the area. They took out a truck load of dirt, put in new drainage, sprinklers, put in electrical lines, poured cement pads outside the office doors, drilled a hole in a rock to make a fountain, etc. Today was the day for the rest of us to help put the plants in the ground. Here are a few pictures.

Here's Kirk with his post-hole digger putting in Rosemary plants. It was a wonderful treat for Kirk to work under Philip's direction. Included in the plantings are 2 dwarf citrus trees- Kirk's favorite!

Here Philip is showing people how to gently get the plants out of the plastic pots.

It's so neat to see Abby come alongside Philip and help him with this project. :-)
They have worked hard on it together from the beginning.

Here's Abby planting Mondo grass.
They are also going to add 2 Crepe Myrtle trees and Kefir Lilies (sp?) & Camellias in the shady areas. Two fountains are going to be installed as well.
It should be beautiful!