Everything is beautiful as always Rita. Every time I see your planter, I like them more. that was a stroke of pure genius. I see the portulaca. I have a flat of it that needs to go in the garden tomorrow or the next day.

The daylilies are so lush and green! Bloom time won't be long from now.
kay

Absolutely gorgeous all of it. I love the terraces and the half round planters. I wish my daylily foliage looked as good as yours.
Linda

Rita.I love that first photo.It looks kind of Tropical to me.I have just a few lily bulbs has sprouted and look just like your shortest one, then I have a few just barely showing their face through the soil.Course some aint done nothing.I am just hoping they are still where I put them.I think Ms Blackie laid on one,as it looks broken, but maybe it will come on and grow,I hope.This last photo,whats the Red single rose?Its really pretty,and I am curious as to what is the tall pink b ush (tree) on the left in your picture at the far end.Whatever it is, its pretty.
I have not took photos yet today.Was just too hot out there,and my intire front yard is in the morning sun.I can't see what I am doing taking photos in the sun.Cant see anything on the little screen in the sun,and have tried using the view finder,and that dont work well either for me.Your photos are gorgeous.

Jean

Kay- I love the portulacas. I got the idea to put them along there in front of the daylilies and I am sure it will be constant bloom all summer. Plus they have such pretty colors. I still need another flat to plant were I have the dying tulip folliage in front of daylily rows.

I do love those half round rose planters. They just look so interesting and I have to agree, turned out great. At the time I wanted to be able to get more of a rose section in there and with it all stepped like that works really well.

Thanks Linda, but all I did was put the usual spring fertilizer on the daylilies. We did have lots of spring rain and the daylilies have loved it.

Jean- I am sure your lily bulbs will sprount. That red single rose is Bee Bop and it puts on quite a big spring show. In fact I have had people ask me what type of shrub it is as they never saw single roses before.

That big blooming thing is a very old weigelea that came with the house. I have no idea of the vareity but it blooms up a storm each spring. It is in full bloom now.

Love those planters, everything looks so good. You have a lot happening there, the roses, portulaca, weigelia, just lovely. Aren't lilies so cute when they start to come up?

Nancy- You know I like lots of bloom going on. One reason that I do tend to add lots of annuals as they just keep right on blooming.

Emerging lilies always look like fluffy little green space sheep. So cute. As always, I love your wall forms
I'M logging terraces away for future landscaping plans.

Everything looks great, as usual, Rita. But I'm impressed with the way the California Poppies self-sowed! They look so neat and tidy with such delicate foliage. I've never grown poppies. I will have to do some research. Thanks for sharing -
Kathy

Terracing can salvage lots of previously unusable space. I know. My yard is so multi-level that I have terraces all over the place.

Kathy- I bought a packet of seeds last year, started them in some of those leftover nursery packs that had annuals in them. Planted them out when they got big enough. Broke each thingy into four and lined up all the plants. They grew and bloomed and NEVER stopped until a hard freeze. We had such a hot summer with record heat and they bloomed thru it all. I rarely watered them either.

This spring I was pulling them up out of the daylilies there next to them and tossing them, I have plenty over there along that row.

I just love the rose in the half round planters! Your daylilies are looking lush and green, so they should do well this season.

Debra

Debra, lots of rain this spring.

Everything looks so green and healthy and those planters are great!
Val

I agree that those half round planters are really nice, that was a great idea. Plus the slope planting of daylilies.
cindy

Especially love your last photo of the half round planters. I like the way the white roses are peeking out from behind the red ones. Very pretty.

Christine

Thanks, everyone. Those half round planters were were of my better project ideas afew years ago.

Many of you might remember me planting that driveway side slope with the daylilies in an August heat wave afew years ago. It was difficult to work on and really a bigger project than I first thought. But it just looks stunning in bloom so I am very pleased with it.

Rita,
I love your gardens. I wish I could grow roses like you.
I planted some portulacas this year for the first time in a long time. Do you pinch yours back when you plant them?
I have several daylily scapes coming too. I wonder if they are ones left over from last fall that tried to rebloom since we had such heat. Some of the varieties are not early ones and don't make sense to me.
Debbie

I never do anything to my portulacas. I just plant them. Rarely does one need to water them.