Perennial garden photos 2008

Okay guys,
Remember how the last 2 years we had threads going where we posted photos of our whole gardens instead of just the individual shots? Well, shall we start again? I've read on a few posts about people wanting to see the whole garden shots. I'll try to get it started again. Please join in and share your perennnial garden photos. Here's my first shot. I've already posted it once, but figure it's a good place to get us started.

This is my front yard island bed on 04-27-2008.

Join In,
Sherry ;o)

Thanks for getting this started. I will get my photos done this weekend.

Here is a shot of a small part of mine.

This is another.

Dragonfly, it looks so serene.

Here's my brand new ( less than 1 week old) shade perennnial garden. Hubby and I dug it up and planted it last weekend. Still gotta get the mulch on it.
GayLynn

Beautiful!

Wonderful! Don't you just love a brand new garden. It is so pristine.

Don't mind the bovines. They were escapees!
Hubby won't let me widen this garden and make it "swoop". Such a bad man.

Garden planted last year, photo taken last year. My bedroom window. My first official garden on our property.

As it stands now. Gotta love Tennessee for growing green stuff!!

Tried to take a panorama of my front yard. It was early morning, lots of shadows. When we moved here in '91 there was nothing but grass and the ancient maples on the far right edge of the photo. We put the patio in two years ago. It may seem strange to put a patio in the front, but behind where I was standing is a hedge of pine trees. You can't see the house from the road.

Ohhhh Im loving that gate!

They are old iron stair railings that our friend, a blacksmith, threw out. There's an iron arbor there too, but it's hard to see in the picture. I had to buy that though. On the other side of the house I have two old cemetery gates that flank the sidewalk to the back door. I got those for nothing too. If there are any blacksmith shops around you, ask if you can check out their junk pile.

good idea! Thanks.

pastime, crimsontsavo, staceysmom, dragonfly62 and Sherrygirl.....all really lovely gardens.....nothing like looking at folks gardens, learn something every time you look and you see possibilities you hadn't even thought of......thanks enjoyed all of them.....

Paul from Alabama

It is like looking at an English Garden Pastime. How spectacular!

I love the moving yard decorations Crimso, it sure made me smile.

Ok, here I go, I think I figured out how to add a hyperlink. It is going to take you to Kodak Gallery, so please excuse the extra effect it will take to view the garden. Boy I hope this works.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=rj3w379.4k9ufts5&x=0&h=1&y=clicpb&localeid=en_US

Irishsoul, your gardens are lovely. How old are they? Love the Hibiscus! Thanks for the pix.
Becky

Mattsmom - Thank you so much.

The gardens are only 2 years old, but the roses and lilies are only 2 months old. When we moved here there was only 1 scrubby looking tree and all the prickly (which we moved to one corner, don't really like them (got caught in them way to often, ouch), but figured they deserved to survive.

I love peaking at all of these beautiful gardens! So very nice.

I like to frame my iris garden with a heart. BEV

Oh Bev, I love the colors. I planted Iris this year and only the White came out. Yours are so wonderful.

Rhonda

BEV, that is so pretty. Love the soft colors. The bleeding hearts really complete the total picture too.

Thanks ladies! I love my gardens. I have 11 seperate ones. Bev

It must be wonderful to have shade plants. Only sun areas here. Have to wait for the trees we planted to grow up. Maybe some day.

crimsontsavo....Do you ever make it to Sunlight Garden's nursery in Andersonville, Tennessee by any chance?

Paul from Alabama

nice gardens ya'll

this bed doesn't really get started until it gets a little hotter here (like 93F isn't hot enough?!)

No Paul, my husband is a bad bad man and won't take me to a nursery LOL (I can't drive). Are they good? If they're good and close enough I may whine until he brings me hehehe.

Part of the garden outside the picket fence.
Taking ideas for the pot on the pedestal.

The parking border blooming with peony's, dianthus ,geranium ,and a few iris.

Sedum!!! One that blooms very brightly... maybe a yellow. Here's mine. I have a tall purple wildflower growing right out of the center of the sedum to add height. As the year progresses the sedum will spill over the sides and hang down prettily.

How about wave petunias in thar pot? BEV

DMJ - My stupid is showing. What kind of plant is that? Love the colors!

Gus - Amazing, it looks an entrance to Nature Park. It just flows so well.

Okay, here goes. These are from last year. I've never tried to share my garden before.

That was one side of the house. This is one shot of the butterfly garden

Great gardens, candy! Thanks for sharing. What do you have in your butterfly garden. I can't quite see.

Pastime, love your re-purposing of those stair railings! Dragonfly, I like your iron heart :0) - I'm just starting to grow irises. Here's part of my front garden.

I know, It's a bad picture. I didn't know it at the time, but there was this smudge on the lens. These are my documentation pictures, so I can keep track of what grew where and when. Anyway, there are butterfly bush, several types of Echinacea, blackeyed susan, salvia, speedwell, goldenrod, dianthis, mints, lavender, tansy, liatris, phlox, a lot of things you can't see from this picture and this is at the end of September in NY.

So, what did I do that my picture doesn't get as big as other pictures do when I click on it?