Stan has lots of plans for the place. One of his newest is a Zen garden. The weather has created so many problems that have to be dealt with that no one has raked the Zen garden in a while.
They have a number of fruit trees on the property. They have them under bird netting.
Stan goes marching on.
This is the berry garden.
This was an experiment to try and sort the unknown iris by color. Not highly successful to say the least.
At last, some iris.
We broke for lunch a little late because the catering truck missed a turn and got stuck in the mud.
After lunch one of the young workers took us over to see the crayfish traps. He warned us to be very careful and to stay well away from the edge of the pond. The reason was Cottonmouth snakes. Very poisonous and very agressive. They will charge you. He said he kills a number of them everyday. They don't go to the catfish pond. There they are prey. We saw three cottonmouths and a diamond back water snakein the 15 minutes we were there.
This was a dead one we found in another area of the garden.
They also have turtles.
And of course, fire ants.
A few more garden shots before we get to some iris.
