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This Ranch Hoedown Journal will cover the activities
leading up to the event which is planned for sometime during summer of 2010.
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Pam Tysse, Andrew Roberts and
Adam Kinkelaar (one of my sons) for making me (Baylee's mom) a very
large potting table! I will use it when planting the many huge
containers of sunflowers for the dance and it will save my back!
The table is shown (right) and on top is
sitting just one of the many boxes that will be planted with the
sunflowers.
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So, another thank you to Wade (my husband and
father of the bride) for making these wooden planter boxes. He will make
anywhere from 7 to 11 of them that will look great placed around the
scene!
They are made with weathered wood (just like my potting table above),
which country folks love! I will plant the boxes and keep them in a
protected, but sunny place in our yard to specially care for the
sunflowers until the 1st week in August, when they will be used for the
dance.
We should be able to guard the containers from high winds, possible hail
and the worst threat of all....our roaming
chickens, who love to
scratch and peck in my flower pots! |
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A Sunflower Theme is
planned for the dance. Large containers with growing sunflowers will be
placed throughout the eating and dancing areas. Baylee's Aunt Bertie
will grow a few varieties in her large
garden, which will
be cut for bouquets. Those will be adorning all of the table-scapes and
food/beverage serving locales.
I plan to spend some time this
winter, pouring through the garden catalogs to find the perfect
sunflower seeds to grow. Some of the bushy varieties would be just right
for the planter boxes and wouldn't be so apt to tip over, like the
traditional tall sunflowers might. |
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