Look around for tracks..my guess it is deer. We have good luck with Liquid Fence, and spray it every few days unless we see deer roaming. You do have to reapply after a rain. There is a lady that lives in a court behind us, she has the most beautiful flower gardens..hostas are the size of a tire on an 18 wheeler..absolutely breathtaking. She sprays with Liquid Fence every day she tells me and doesn't have anything eaten.

Hostaholic, my latest bloomers are not even started yet.But it is not always they make it before the winter. I will cull some this year if they do not make it. I have some very late and very hardy chrysanthemums. But are they worth the space if I only see flowers on them each third year or so? Gottagarden, there are more helianthus species/varieties, but several have terribly running habit. I have some pots with Helianthus mollis which I propagated from seed. I have to ask you Americans : does is have running habit??? If so, will it come back if dug up? A propos sanguisorba: I have found some pictures of an American species Sanguisorba canadensis. Does anybody grow it?? Is it really so beautiful like on the pictures? Does it run? Can it stand up?? Some more shots: Third year in a row there is a branch on Rhododendron Tamarindos , which opens some flowers late in the autumn. Meconopsis cambrica still pushes some flowers. We are talking about October 29th. Chrysanthemum Bronze Elegans .It has many aliases, the original name is most probably Herbstbrokat. Very hardy. This one, Mei-kyo, Nantyderry Sunshine and Purleigh White are mutations of the same original plant. Nantyderry Sunshine. Sport from Bronze Eleganse. My own mutation from Nantyderry Sunshine. It is indistinguishable from Mei-kyo. Chrysanthemum Purleigh White. Survived winter flood. I think it is indistructable. Chrysanthemum Schweizerland. The colour is smoky, but the plant is hardy and stands up nicely. Chrysanthemum Citronella. The best yellow so far. Aster laevis Anneke van der Jeugd. This is an aster equivalent of Thalictrum rocherbrunianum. Very thin stems but the plant is standing up. Garden visibility of the plant is rather small, because not many flowers open at the same time. Too airy. But it is healthy and does not occupy much space , so I've kept it. There are some more to come, but not many.

Yes this plant is a beautiful monster! It spreads quickly and aggressively by rhizomes and I've given away tons of it. Ishare, I think you got yours from me at a swap?? I give mine a haircut in June - along with many other perennials that I want to reduce in size or make less likely to flop. This works well, but does delay the bloom time a little bit. You can control the height by shearing, and also slow it down somewhat by planting it in less than full sun. It grows and blooms well in partial sun. I had a HUGE patch of it last year, but over the winter we had a ton a snow, and under all that snow the voles were having a field day. They decimated about 3/4 of the Helianthus Lemon Queen patch. I wasn't really upset about that! Although they did do damage to some perennials I was upset about.

OMG! No phone! That's my connection to the rest of the world! I can stay in touch while I weed,clean or doing laundry. I can't imagine, what happens if there's an emergency? I would be terrified! I have the option to answer or not so it doesn't bother me that it rings too much! Annie, your killing me! I love those pics. I keep going back and looking at them. I thought I posted a good box, I guess not.LOL Tracy, where did you go???? Fran, it's getting close for your turn:]