Perennial garden photos 2008

Front island bed from the porch.

Everyone needs bovines.

Gazania, your yard is absolutely beautiful!

Great perennial beds!

Ganzania - That is wonderful! Thank you for sharing.

What great gardens . I wish we could grow lupins here, Sherry girl y ours are gorgeous.

Ganzania......you got a real mixed border in every sense of the word....and it looks great....35 x 6 hey that's what I call real estate.....:)

Paul from Alabama

Had to add my pic. St. Louis is getting so much rain, my hosta's are huge this year.

crystalnurse, your hostas are starting to look like trees.......:)

Paul from Alabama....

Crystal, I'd sure like to have a spot like that in my yard. Beautiful!

Crystalnurse... stunning setting, looks like somethin' from a magazine. I could get lost in a day dream or nap or two there.

Crystal, WOW!, What a wonderful shady retreat.

Beautiful shady retreat Crystal. It looks so relaxing.

Crystal..that is so peaceful looking and all that wonderful shade plus water. You have done a beautiful job with it all.

Shade and water...I have neither.

More pics of my front island..at it's peak now.

And from the other end.

Now, the side yard and foundation plantings

And a favorite Huchera 'Cherries Jubilee' with Sum and Substance Hosta

Thanks for your nice comments everyone. I started this 3 years ago when I got to take down my son's fullsize baseball batting cage. Grass never grew in that area, so I decided it was a giant flowerbed. Then a pond happened last year. I have a hard time getting out of that swing at times. I've loved seeing everyone's pictures and will be using idea's from them.

Crystal

Gazania, Your yard is beautiful! Great combos of plant material. I love it!

I love the complimentary colors. It is so beautiful. I just kind of flows.

Gazania, your yard is so pretty. I would find myself strolling around there many times during the day just to enjoy.

GayLynn

Lincolnitess crystalnurse and gazania what wonderful pictures. I h ope you like this one.

another this is my favorite rose name unknown

poppies galore just coming into bloom. These are shirley popies which were sown in the snow. We had quite a discussion about poppies and sowing temperatures. This works for me.

and an endless summer hydrangea , Queen Elizabeth Rose and shirley poppy. I almost shovel pruned the hydrangea last year, but like many plants this summer it is doing well.

Very lovely gardens everyone! Here's heliopsis helianthoides 'Lorraine Sunshine' and coreopsis blooming together.

Everyone's gardens are so breathtaking! I love threads like this where I can look at what everyone has growing and see how we all have unique styles, and yet some of us also seem to be kindred spirits. :)

And Sherrygirl, I have to say that those Lupines just knocked me out. Love them!

Here's a look at part of my spring garden. It will change so much in a month or so, but here's the prettiest spot right now...

Wow! You all have created some exquisite spaces- isn't gardening an amazing outlet? You get to be creative and live in beauty and, in my case, cook using the herbs and, sometimes, flowers in your food every day!

My little perennial and herb garden is very primative, compared to most of yours. I have so much shade around my house, and my bale vegetable garden is way over in the side yard. But this little garden is my favorite spot!

Namaste- Suzan

wow! All these gardens just blow me away. I'm glad I found this
thread. Will join the fun with photo's soon

Tam

Suzan, your little garden is charming!

Here's my "shrub border" - it completed a garden room I've been building
in an horse pasture.

Here's what I call the Entrance Garden. I added the baskets on a post this
spring. DH built the stone steps over a period of time much longer than I'd
like to remember. Good thing they turned out so well.

Here's a hill that was just weeds & rocks before I put in the conifers
and perennials.

Here's my rock garden - a small bed of tiny jewels

Here's a pretty combo (or one I enjoy anyhow). Two types of weigelia,
catmint and the catalpa starting to bloom in the background.

Tammy those are gorgeous settings. Love the stone steps and the baskets on the posts. Beautiful!

GayLynn

OK... one last one. I hope you don't mind so many photos!

This is the same shrub border as in my first pic but looking from
the other side. You can see the vegatable garden (well - I have
a bunch of shrubs in front of it too).

Don't mind pictures at all. Beautiful. Gives me ideas for my own gardens.

Tammy, You have a little piece of Heaven right there! Your gardens are just beautiful. Love your entry garden. So charming.
Becky

thank you. I sure enjoy it. I put the photos on my work PC as background.
Keeps me calm during stressful situations.

Here's the "peony bed" though they are on the back side of it. I love this
deutizia. I believe its "magician" Pink with little white edges on the flowers