This 4th of July our neighbor John brought us some free fencing.  Since we are doing this with mainly recycled materials, it turned into the perfect opportunity to add some flair to the front of the farm.

The weekend started off with a beautiful rainbow during an afternoon rain shower.

Now traditionally you build a fence and then pick out the flowers, but this was a special weekend in the Flint Ridge area. The local Daylily farm was having a sale and we got a truckload for a great price. What a beautiful place to spend a rainy July day. The garden was started at the beginning of March, before the last frost. We took a big gamble with the early planting, but it paid off later in the year. We decided that this garden was eventually going to be a perennial garden, so we started with some small perennial beds so we could expand them later.  

Honestly , we didn’t know we were getting a fence. Luckily we are surrounded by great people. 

Once we had the fence, it only made sense to put it around this garden. Piece by piece, hole by hole, the fence went up. The first day we made a lot of progress. We even put a first coat on the roadside fence and laid out our daylilies.

The second day, we finished off the back of the fence and we were ready to paint.

The 4th of July arrived and we had a fence around the garden. We hung the galvanized gates and finished planting the daylilies.

Usually fences are put up to keep people out, but upon completing this fence, we found ourselves surrounded by new friends. This property hasn’t had anything new like this in a long time. It wasn’t easy to put up, but it has been worth every drop of sweat.