Buying plants to put in the yard

In January, we had a big wind storm that took out 3 of our big trees along with the facia board on the front of the house along with the gutter. It's given us an excuse to "spruce up" the yard a bit. It needed it before but I had not wanted to really fool with it or put any money into more plants that I might just kill! My friend, Mary Ruther, is really knowledgeable about plants. She is actually selling different ones at the Farmer's Market every weekend in Walla Walla. This morning we went to Barkwell's nursery in Milton-Freewater, Oregon to look around. She helped me pick out quite a few and she knew if the prices were good as well as how hardy the plants were. Her knowledge was invaluable to me; it would have taken me days to do all we did in about 3 hrs.

A view of the plants crammed into the back of her Tahoe.

Mary posing in front of a bowl she really wants to get to convert into a fountain.

And Mary took a photo of me. Barkwell's nursery is so pretty! They also sell decorative items for the house. I couldn't leave without buying a dark yellow and red glass chicken for the kitchen. *S*

It was a very warm day here and the sky was beautiful with the clouds over the mountains so I had to take a photo of that as well.