safety first

As summer is finally here, keep a watchful eye out for the many children mow wandering (and sprinting) in the streets and neighborhoods.  Slow down as you travel around the neighborhoods (even in the dark as night games begin).  And please, please slow down on 450 North and watch for kids that may be crossing the road to Millville's North Park.  If you could spread the word to others who may not be reading this blog to PLEASE SLOW DOWN, that would be angelic.

ward adult fireside

Thursday at 7:00 (in the relief society room) there is a fireside/meeting with guest speaker Jeff Johns who is a family counselor. He will be focusing on resolving conflict in marriage. There will be a nursery provided (thank you Desi!) for those who need that. All adults invited.

Softball RS vs. YW

It's softball time! The Relief Society will be playing softball and we are taking on the Young Women tuesday, June 28 at 6:30 p.m. Be practicing and may the best team win!

summer tennis

Tennis Anyone?
Ladies at the Millville Tennis Courts
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 AM!

oh what do you do in the summertime?

Do you remember that primary song Oh What Do You Do in the Summertime? (Children's Songbook pg.245)

Oh, what do you do in the summertime, when all the world is green?
Do you fish in a stream, or lazily drem on the banks as the clouds go by?
Is that what you do? So do I.

Oh what do you do in the summertime, when all the world is green?
Do you swim in a pool to keep yourself cool, or swin in a tree up high?
Is that what you do? So do I.

Oh what do you do in the sumertime, when all the world is green?
Do you march in parades, or drink lemonades, or count all the stars in the sky?
Is that what you do? So do I.

As summertime approaches, it would be great to hear some ideas of what you do "when all the world is green." So, leave a comment sharing what you do (and so will I).

plant lists

Last week at a weekday relief society meeting, Rachel Jeppson talked to us about landscaping. Here are the lists of some plants she provided at the meeting. (bloom time in parenthesis)

Perennials for Shade
coral bells (all summer), peony (spring), shade (bloom time), ajuga (spring), lamium (early summer, creeping phlox (summer)

cransbill/geranium (summer), forget-me-not (summer), lady's mantel/alchemilla (summer), fleabane/erigeron (all summer), ornamental blue fescue, japanesse bloodgrass

veronica (summer to fall), salvia (summer), bleeding heart (spring), lupin (summer), obedient plant (summer), delphinium (spring), bee balm/monarda (mid-summer), maidenhair grass (mid-summer), ornamental onion/allium (summer), astilbe (mid-summer)

Perennials for Sun
ice plant (spring), thyme: wooley, lemon, mother of (spring), pink sea thrift (spring), sedum (summer), snow-in-summer (summer),

stella d'oro daylilly (spring), autumn joy sedum (autumn), Penstemon (summer), lavender (summer), gay feather/liatris (late summer)

black-eyed susans/ rudbecia (late summer), poppy (spring), baby's breath (summer), russian sage (summer), gaillardia (summer), aster (autumn), echinacea (early summer), coreopsis (all summer), garden phlox (mid-summer),

red poker plant (mid summer), joe-pye weed (late summer)


Annuals for container planting (shade)
center: coleus, dracena
middle: lobelia, begonia, impatient, pansy, coleus
trailing/edge: english daisy, potatoe vine

Annuals for container planting (sun)
center: purple fountain grass, african daisy, nicotiana, snapdragons
middle: nicotiana, snapdragons, petunias, marigolds, zinnia
trailing/edge: lantana, moss rose, bacopa

Woody Perennials
St John Word/Hypericum (summer), Spirea: limemound, anthony waterer, snowmound (summer) pygmy peashrub (early summer), weigela (early summer), dwarf fothergilla (likes acidic soil-- a bit more work) (spring with fall color), peking cotoneaster (spring w/fall color), hakuro nishiki willow (spring with fall color), snowball bush/viburnum (spring), ivory halo redoiser dogwood (spring), golden privet (spring)

yucca, blue star juniper, boxwood, bird's nest spruce, isali mugo pine, *dwarf Japanese yew, *emerald gaity euonymus, dwarf balsam fir, blue rug juniper/wilton juniper, *oregon grape (berries w/fall color)

*tricolor beech, *persan parrotia (Spring w/fall color), easter redbud (spring with fall color), magnolia-saucer or star (spring), cestena plum (spring), *flowering dogwood (summer), Rocky Mt. Maple Euopean Mt Ash (spring w/berries and fall color)

fat alber's spruce, vanderwolf pine, arborvitae, skyrocket juniper, *weeping norway spruce, blue atlas cedar (also in weeping form), *hinoki cypress

*plants that are shade tollerant

updates to the blog

Some updates are happening on the Relief Society blog--
If you have something that you are selling or a service you provide and would like to add it to our little portion of the blog designated to that, please leave a comment and we'll do our best.

And if you can think of a clever title for this piece of the blog....that would also be commentable!