Oh my gosh, you have a whole little gnome family. I think the paint job is great. My neighbor told me while back she has box full of gnomes in the shed I can have when she cleans it out but they all need painting she said. I love how they look sitting around in the beds and pots. I guess I will need some paint advice from your hubby. Your brugs are looking good as well as your other plants.

Revenge of the Gnomes, I love it. Someone needs to move them around everyday so they are not in the same spot each morning. If you have young neighborhood children they will think something up with them moving around. Just don't let anyone see you doing it. LOL

I enjoyed all your photos and everything looks real neat and tidy. Where did you get your Red Castor Bean Tree?
I gave a bunch of seeds away this year. I just planted mine in the ground last weekend. They are sooooo pretty!
Good job! Keep up the good work.
Happy Gardening, Marian

Your gnomes remind me of the TV commercial. I think it's for British Airways.lol The plants look great.
Karyn

Oh I love the gnomes. I looked at a house that had gnome wallpaper in the kitchen and gnomes everywhere!!! But I think they are cute in the garden. I need a few to go with my pink flamingos. I also want a duck statue. One of my neighbors used to have one that she dressed up for holidays it was so cute!!!

Mary

Luzia

I wouldn't change a thing! It looks great! :) And yes - the gnomes are cute! lol! I do envy you though! A privacy fence - yay! If I had a privacy fence I'd have all kinds of hanging baskets hanging on it. It's a 'thing' I have with a privacy fence. Hanging baskets of ALL kinds of plants hanging on every inch of it! lol! Can't help myself!

Mike

Kristy we can have a painting party lol. I really thought of not putting them out but they remind me of my mom.
Marian that is FUNNY. It sounds like something I would love to do IF it was not for the fact that nobody can see it in the back yard. I do not dare putting anything in the front. Years ago my Husband had them upfront and someone stole the best ones. Yesterday someone ripped out one of my solar lights in the flowerbed in the front yard. So I moved them in the back now. The Castor bean tree came back from next to nothing after the frost had killed the rest of last winter. I just LOVE how pretty it is growing. You will not believe where I got it from. I had planted it over 10 years ago from seeds I had brought with me from germany one time ...not knowing it was illegal :-(..grew it and my husband said that while I was gone it reseeded itself year after year. Surely enough I picked a LOT out of the spot it had grown before. So I will harvest all the seeds before they fall into the soil.
Karyn you gave me a early morning giggle. I forgot all about those commercials.
Mary I will only dress them up with flowers lol.
Mike don't envy me to much. The only fence side I COULD hang something on is the wooden one and if I do, it would most likely collaps. The back side is deer country and the last one belongs to my neighbor :-( But hanging baskets are another great idea until I am ready to dig holes.
Thanks everybody for taking a look.
Have a wonderful Monday and may it bring nothing but joy!
Luzia

Luzia you don't have to worry. Castor isn't illegal to grow. We grow and sell the seed pods stalks and foliage to the florists who use them in flower arrangements.
Karyn

Luzia, I especially liked the baby gnome -- very cute!

Karyn oh I meant say that IMPORTING seeds into the US without permission is illegal :-( That is when my hopes faded when I looked into ordering seeds from Kirchner-Abel from germany. That is ok. There are way to many beauties here. Why wonder over the pond.........

now KRISTY ......THAT is a POND lol....it would be a challenge lol

Eloise thanks.....they are the onces that change places by themselves lol. The wind or water just blows them away. Ok got to go back outside and water and fertilize. It's THAT time of the week.
Luzia