Thank you guys for the compliments. Paula, I looooooove any type of lilies! I had the asiatics bloom in the spring, trumpets at the beginning of summer and now the orientals and orienpets are putting on some show! My black beauty has just started blooming and I have almost 15 blooms per stalk so I'll have to take pictures of that one and post it soon. Karen, I also love coleous and sweet potatoes. I overwintered the sweet potato tubers, but I thought they had died since there were some bugs on them when I took them out and I just tossed them in that bed since it's a lasagna bed started in the fall. I didn't think they were going to grow. I gotta tell you, most of my favorite combos are simply by chance :0) Linda, you're going to love the scheherazade lily! it's one of my very favorites and smells delicious. Barb, the burgundy plant is canna 'australia' also one of my favorites. They keep their color all year long and bloom pretty much until frost. I got my stuttgart from a GW member here in NC. It's just beatiful! It's finally starting to put out flowers which the hummers love and you can't beat the foliage. The burgundy foliage is coleous. I don't know what I would do with out them in my garden. They provide such a long show even without flowers and all I have to do is buy one of each and I propagate them as much as I want. I usually have coleouses waiting for a spot in the garden :0) What makes you think you failed to accomplish the look? Believe me, I don't really have an eye for design so most of my beds are happy mistakes! Lynne, you can't go wrong with lilies. they're easy to care for, bloom like crazy and smell heavenly! what more could anyone ask for? I would really appreciate suggestions to make my garden better. So please don't hesitate to add your ideas. Monica

Linda, the broken colors have a nice scent but you have to stick your nose right to the flower to smell them. I have a plant of fushia that I got in a trade that is supposed to be strongly scented and hope to have lots of seeds from them for trades. I love 4 o'clocks too and grow them for their beauty as well as a favorite for the JPs. I grow all of them in either 10 or 12 inch pots and move the 10 inch pots around the garden beds to keep the JP's from killing my malvas and roses. In my gardens I get lots of JP's start to eat the 4 o'clock leaves and fall dead in the pots or on the ground. The leaves are toxic to the JP's. I love seeing them dead around the plants. Since I move them all around the yard, it might be that mine aren't getting as badly eaten as yours. Can you put any of your plants into pots and see if that makes any difference for you? Thanks poppy power Paula, be patient for the blooms, I've only had those 3 bloom on 8 different plants and I have 2 other kinds, a strongly scented fushia and tea time rose and they show no signs of buds yet. Last year the broken colors where the slowest to bloom, but once they started, about a week after the first few blooms, they just kept blooming and blooming well into Oct. Fran

Welcome Rena,you will never do house work again,WSing is so additive. Oh wow, green already, congratulations!At 5 pm, it is still light out,happy,happy,happy. Mary, I have used the small soda bottles before, you can tape them all together, like a 6 pack, just one piece of tape all around will keep them from falling over,they work good enough,great if you are only going to sow a few seeds. Have fun,not matter how you do it, just throw them caps away. cAROL

This is probably my favorite gallery (at least today!) Wish I could add more than one pic at a time from my computer without using Photobucket.