ANOTHER LUCKY BREAK FOR ME!!

This must be my lucky week. I just has to be. My new next door neighbours came to me while I was weeding my front flower beds. They told me they were going away for the weekend and that while they were away I could help myself to anything they had growing in their yard because next week they were taking everything out and putting grass over the entire thing. I couldn't believe it.

This morning, Athena and I scouted everything out and started to excavate. I got a total of 21 plants and could have had at least that many more but I haven't the room. Among these treasures was a John Davis climbing rose. Pink. My favorite color. Explorer roses, my favorite as well, (besides English roses, which don't winter very well here on the prairies). I also got a few peonies, 3 other rose bushes, some bleeding hearts, columbines, ferns, hen and chicks, and a few things I have never grown before. Amazing. I hope they transplant well.