Tuesday, July 25, 2017 – Caladiums in the Women’s Garden, Working on the “Sunset” Stage

Today was another hard day of work on the grounds of Old Nauvoo. Richard and his grounds crew planted a variety of plants including beautiful “Red on Green” Caladiums all over in the women’s garden. There were over 140 large mature Caladiums in addition to the other plants. The Caladiums are full of bright colorful leaves and everything was planted in all of the flowerbeds in the Women’s Garden.

For the past two months since all of the annual flowers were planted in the flowerbeds, many of the annuals have been eaten by deer, destroyed by possums and raccoons, pulled out of the ground by guests or died for one reason or another. Today Richard and his crew filled in all of the blank spaces as well as other empty spots in the gardens with large variety of plants including those beautiful “Red on Green” Caladiums. They make a great display and brighten all of the flowerbeds in the Women’s Garden.

Sis. Johnson and I along with our crew of Elder Kyle Johnson and Elder Cantwell worked the whole day on the hedge of shrubs at the “Sunset on the Mississippi” stage again. Yesterday we got the first half done and today we almost finished the whole thing. There is only about 40 feet left to weed, rake and clean up plus remove the rogue trees. 

Our cleaning project is always complicated by the occasional large patch of Poison Ivy we come across. Everything comes to a screeching halt every time we find Poison Ivy. I have to put on my protective gear while the others have to wait until every stem, leaf and root of the Poison Ivy is removed and disposed of properly. 

Our cleaning project is always complicated by the occasional large patch of Poison Ivy we come across. Everything comes to a screeching halt every time we find Poison Ivy. I have to put on my protective gear while the others have to wait until every stem, leaf and root of the Poison Ivy is removed and disposed of properly.