I love those pics nice job.

Paula

Wow, that is quite the progression in a few weeks! Before and after pics are so much fun.

Your sage looks nice and healthy. I need to give sage another try. I planted a summer sown seedling out last year, and it died this spring.

Yum ... your peas look delicious.

Thanks Paula and Mo Girl! The plain culinary sage wintersows easily, but I have had the hardest time keeping the golden and tricolor ones alive. They have to be cutting propagated, and are borderline hardy in my zone.

Here are a few more I just took. This first one is the same Gazania plant, so I was missed the bloom opening the first time by just a couple of hours. By the way, I was wrong, this pot has the Gazania 'Daybreak Mix'. The 'Daybreak Bronze' is in a different pot.

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This is an unknown Lavender. The seeds were given to me by someone on Gardenweb, but they weren't sure if it was 'Munstead' or 'Hidcote'. Can anyone identify?

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Here is some Parsley krausa, which took forever to germinate this year!

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Red Perilla

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One more basil, this one is 'Opal'

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This is a different Asclepias tuberosa 'Gay Butterflies' plant than the ones in my previous threads, and as you can see, still no red!

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... and I apologize to anyone on dial-up, but here is one more, this one is not wintersown. It's Echinacea 'Sundown'.

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Thanks again for looking!
Bonnie

Beautiful looking plants! Great pics.

Thank you, Proudgm! Right after I posted, you posted several threads with with beautiful pictures, and so did several other posters. I was surprised to find my new thread already on page 2 today! Now that's an active forum!

Bonnie

Lovely pictures!

Hope my Gazania grows up to be just like yours LOL! I have a few buds, but can't tell what color I'll get just yet.
The only good basil this year are a few Red Rubin in containers and one in the ground, the rest of them and Siam Queen are pitiful :(
As for the Lavender it's really hard to say since all the English Lavender have the same type foliage and bud/flower color can vary a bit when seed propagated. Mountain Valley Growers and their experience with these plants state that in their experience 'Hidcote' is not as heat or drought tolerant. Ever thing I could find says that it is much smaller than 'Munstead' at about 12"
I have some currently have 'Munstead' and 'Vera' planted but couldn't tell you which is which because I can't remember that far back what was planted where! And as stated above flower color can vary with seed propagation (that includes commercial seed). I have a few measured at 57 to 60" across in bloom on 2 of my not-so-hard pruned ones!! I think these might be 'Vera' because I'm pretty sure 'Vera' grows much larger than 'Munstead'. Normally I prune most of them hard in spring (winter damage or not) because they are in mixed borders, lightly when harvesting wands (abt. 2 to 3" sets of leaves in) and again in fall after 2nd round of blooms. These 2 I left go to seed for the finches/Chickadees last year and only cut them back far enough in April to remove the wands. So really this is the first time I've seen them so HUGE! I enjoyed watching the birds flock in too feed on them and am letting them go to seed again this year...another bonus is many self-sown babies too :)

Bonnie, your Sundown coneflowers are gorgeous! Do you have any problems with yours not forming petals? I have a two yr old plant that I'm about to shovel prune.

I love the mix of soft grays and yellows in the first pic. Looks so relaxing.

love all your pictures - the herbs look yummy - do you use them in cooking????

The before and after of the front of your house is amazing. I love how the landscape changes week after week - one of the joys of gardening - something always new

Thanks for sharing....

Lynne