Barb, your garden is GORGEOUS! I wish I could wander there in person and really take in the sights and smells. Your roses are so big and full of blooms. I'm trying to decide which picture I love the most and I think it's the fifth one down with the tree in the middle and the roses surrounding it. Your garden wall is beautiful too. Would you please tell me the names of the yellow and pink roses in the first photo? I thought the yellow one might be Graham Thomas. What a glorious color that is. Your house is lovely too. The gray and white are such a great background for the colors of the roses.

Thank you so much for thinking of me. However, I'm sure everyone who sees this is going to be equally thrilled.

Ingrid

Barb, I envy your garden and how it's packed with everything beautiful - textures, colors, roses, perennials, trees. Very nice! Your garden loves you!

Sherry

Beautiful garden, Barb. I love your color combinations and perennial plantings, especially the Jeri Jennings. That's one of the best plants I've seen of that beautiful rose. Mine will be in its third season next year and I'm hoping for a good leap.

Everything looks great, Barb.
The Louise Odier is incredible.
I can see why your husband likes Constance Spry above all others.

Randy

Lovely plants and a good gardening design.Enjoyed watching your pictures.Please post more pictures .I like the first picture a lot.
Can you please name the perennials in the pictures?Thanks.
Dana

Thank you all for the kind comments.
Ingrid, in the first photo I'll just name them all starting at the far left is Betty Boop, then next (you're right) it's Graham Thomas. The red below Graham is Eugene de Beauharnais.
Next these pinks kind of blend together, Abraham Darby, and minis Stars n Stripes and Lavender Jewel(I think).
Barely visible in the top pick is a cane of Celine Forestier against the house growing into Abe.

Thank you Sherry. I do try to plant companions that are drought tolerant and actually like this climate. We had a very rainy spring so that's why everything is looking lush.

Jeri Jennings really is a great rose, Suze. Mine is in it's 3rd season, so yours will be leaping soon I'm sure. It' first flush is done but it's putting on tons of new growth.

Thanks Randy, Louise Odier smells incredible too. She's a wafter. Planting it by the porch was one of those happy accidents. I didn't realize just how great she'd be. Oh and I love mexican feather grass too. That's what is in the year round pots in my first photo. I have to replace them each spring though.

Hey thanks Dana,
I'll try to name them anything that's prominent in the photos.

In the top photo the front 3 things are all natives. The hot pink on the left is my favorite, desert penstemon (pseudospectabilis). Next the blue is Rocky Mountain penstemon (strictus). I'm not giving the Latin names to be hoity toity, it's just that many penstemons have lots of common names, so if your looking for something in particular you need to know the Latin one. The orange is something I purchase as cushion globemallow, but it doesn't match the description of low growing. I think it might be Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia or munroana. Sorry if this is too much information.
The white on the is snow in summer, to the left of it is nepeta mussinii. It reseeds everywhere, irrigated areas and not. The pink to the left of it is rock soapwort.

The porch photo has May Night salvia at the bottom left of the steps. This re-seeds like crazy and that is a seedling. There's more rock soapwort on the far right of the picture.
The scarlet in the path is firecracker penstemon (eatonii) a native. The purply flowered mats in the path are red creeping thyme.

In the Jeri Jennings photo are Yaku Jima maiden grass and some of that grey is lambs ears. In front of the grass is baptisia that is not yet blooming.

The Constance Spry photo- The purple is Dames Rocket past its peak (another re-seeder). The green leafy plant on the left of the photo is nepeta sibirica. It started blooming just as Constance was finishing. The low green leaves are from a phlomis russeliana which I'm still waiting to see yellow blooms on. The grey is an artemesia. I can't remember the variety but it is a common one.

In the old roses photo is more dames rocket and clematis Mme le Coultre.

And finally in the orange photo, the pale green vine is golden hops. To the left of Pat Austin is 'Arp' rosemary, to the right is agastache rupestris which will be blooming orange by the end of this month. The blue is 'Johnson's Blue' geranium, and to the right of that is more Rocky Mountain penstemon.

Cheers,
Barb

PS Ingrid, I wasn't sure what you meant by the wall. Did you mean the boulders with sedum in my photobucket album? If so I'll upload a more current picture.

I enjoyed looking at your pictures very much. You have a wonderful garden.

Masha

Barb, I meant the white wall that encircles your garden. It's very handsome. Thank you for naming the roses and other plants.

Ingrid

Barb--Your gardens are breathtaking----I love all the different colors---I love your use of perennials---and I love your home----especially all the interesting roof lines--
Great pictures

I also visited your home page ---it is very nice to read your descriptions of each rose.

I will surely look forward to more of your posts--

Florence

Thanks so much Masha and Florence.

Ingrid, I'm flattered that it could be mistaken for a wall, but I must admit that it's a lowly fence of vinyl. : )
Part of the reason that I let everything grow so big is that I found that the white fence was reflecting so much light back out. Not a good recipe for a relaxing garden when the sunlight is always so intense anyway.

Barb422-Thanks for posting the names of the perennials in the pictures.Iam adding perennials to the few flower beds we have and when I look at the plants in a gallon pots in the nurseries it is hard to imagine how they would look in a year or two.I liked the effect you have created by mixing roses with the perennials.I made a note of the names and will be looking for them when I visit local nurseries.Thanks again for posting the names.
Dana

Beautiful pics, thanks for posting.

Just stopped in for another peek----Your garden looks so restful and inviting.

Florence