WOW! everything is thriving and healthy! what is your secret besides WS??

Beautiful, Vera. Those lavender are more spectacular every year.

Karen

Oh my so very pretty!!

I am so jealous of the lavender. I need some of that in my garden.

I have yellow yarrow. I just love yarrow. I need to add some more plants around mine but it is so bright yellow I cannot figure out what to add :)

your gardens are so beautiful!

Karen

Thanks for the boost Vera! It's been raining for most of the day and most of yesterday too. Nice to see some pretties! On to look at part two!
B

Thanks :)))

Karen,

Some color combos for yellow:
...with shades of purples and blues, shades of red/orange white, and greens. Mixing the reds and oranges with yellow is going to be more "hot" while sticking with more blues and purples will give a more "cool" or tranquil effect and white ties everything together. A few years ago I wanted to add a punch of red here and there because I had SO much yellow with purple and blue and now this year with all the volunteer red poppies and maltese cross (and even their volunteers) I'm VERY thankful to have all the white LOL!
Don't forget anything with big or dark green foliage works too for different texture against fine foliage like yarrow. That is something I'm always lacking here because everything I have is usually fine textured and in the silver or blue/green catagory...like lavender, hyssopus, golden marguerite, yarrow, ect. Usually these are the most tolerant of drought and heat so I tend to go for these the most ((sigh))

Vera your gardens are very lovely I hope my baby lavenders grow up to be just like yours. hehe

I love the pics you post. Thanks

Paula

Thanks so much for the suggestions! I do have some blues near the yellow (catmint)
I will look for more like you said. i did not think of adding more green, good idea!

Karen

Love that light yellow columbine with the dark blue lavender. In fact they are all lovely. :)

The lavender is so pretty. I'm looking forward to wsing some this year. A mall nearby has some lavender plants that look like either Munstead or Vera interplanted with blue fescue. It makes a nice combination, so I thought I might try that. I thought I'd add some California poppies for a punch of yellow.

Love your lavender plants and your pics, Vera. So pretty.

Simply stunning!!! ;)

I love your Lavender 'Munstead'.

Gorgeous lavender! I had to leave my bushes behind :( (oh well, they weren't that big anyway) - so far, my lavender here isn't doing all that well. Do you dry yours? Cook with it? Make tea?

Hi Drippy :)

Heck no I ain't making no Lavender tea! Some people might like that turpentine-like taste but not me LOL!!
This a.m. was the first day for me to start harvesting wands and lightly giving the plants a pruning. I cut and make small bundles as I go using twine and then bring them indoors to hang and dry. I also deliver bundles to the neighbors to hang and dry. If I was to hang them all up in the house this place would smell like a french whore-house LOL! It can get just a little over-powering with too much. After they are dry they are either left as is in bundles or stripped off for sachets, etc. What I wish I had was a distillery for making essential oil! Yeah don't I wish HA!

Yep, those Lavenders are to behold!! So how far do you trim them? I have some plants I've never trimmed, but your practice might be the solution. From what I understand you shouldn't trim them late in the season. Could I go into the 'hard' wood? There's one bunch that's really straggly.