When I saw the first picture with the trees in the background, I knew it was south! Your tall trees look very different from what I am used to. Are they pines?

Now, for the gardens: They are beautiful. I love all the pinks and purples. We share similar tastes in flowers, especially the daylilies. I love the simpler forms. I really admire the pastel pink one. It seems like the pinks always look very peachy in my ground.

Looks like you live in the country. Lovely, lovely surroundings.

I am always amazed at the beautiful setting so many of you live in. And oh my at the gorgeous flowers you have! I'm a big daylily fan, and you have some beauties! I also love zinnias and that one is so pretty.

-Sharon

Oh, I just love your natural and open setting. It looks as if you're on a farm. Your gardens are beautiful.

Is that a lavender yarrow? I'm considering that plant and am wondering how it's worked out for you. What is the specific name, how long does it bloom for you and does it slow down at some point like, and does it stay upright as it matures?

I'd also love to know the name of the fuscia plant and if you know which daylily is the pale blushing pink?

So lovely.

TIA : )

Beautiful garden with wonderful borrowed views.

Thank you everyone. I'm sorry I goofed and put this in the Discussions section. I meant to put it in the Gallery section.

gldno1, yes those are Loblolly Pines, an integral part of the Southern landscape. I love their form. And yes, definitely a fan of pinks and purples together! I really enjoy putting several shades of just a few colors together in a garden and pinks and purples work really well with that treatment.

Squirrelheaven that is an Achillea millefolium that we got from my husband's grandmother's garden, so I do not have a cultivar name. It's a bright fuschia pink, blooms for at least a month, after which time it flops, and later sends up new growth with some rebloom.

The fushcia pant is Monarda Raspberry Wine. Sorry I do not know the name of the pale pink daylily. It may not have a name -- years ago DH picked up a box of mixed daylilies and that was one of them, by far the best of the lot. I've heard that often daylily and iris growers will sell their seedlings to big box stores.

We do live on a farm, 54 acres. Everything pictured is ours except for the two pictures labelled "beds under construction" which shows part of our neighbor's horse pasture.

Beautiful! I've always wished that I had more than a postage stamp size yard to garden in.

Be Safe, Rach

Rach, I'm with you, having a postage stamp size yard. Alicia, in my 20s, my goal was for us to live on an acreage, but it never happened. Now, we're in the house my dh grew up in, and he says he's staying put. I love your scenery, and how you can have waves of the same plants together in your beautiful beds! I'm such a collector, that I'll have one of a kind of flower in a bed so I can pack as many in as possible. I think I should try your approach in some of my areas, though. That Monarda is gorgeous!
Sue

I'd love to see your area through the seasons.

Looks like home to me. I was raised in the GA foothills.
Dark Daylilies are my favorite, though some tend to 'melt' in the heat in full sun.

I like lush, bright colors in the bright light of the south, and those magenta blossoms fill the bill. Right now 'common purple' phlox is blooming with a single last Stargazer lily and the unexpected fragrance hits you as you walk by. I love those drifts of one plant with an exclamation point of a single specimen.

Rach and lvt, Those of you who garden in a small space adapt to 'jewel box' gardens that are immaculate and well planned, admired by those of us who are constantly finding an area where weeds decided to take over while we were planting elsewhere.

Nell

Thank you Rach and lvtgrdn. My grandfather had a small yard garden but boy was it beautiful -- so full of flowers. I got the gardening bug from him and I always think of his garden as an inspriration for mine, although mine is spread-out. Lvtgarden I have a big draft of Monarda like that because it spread of its own accord, and I need spreaders like that to help crowd out weeds!

Nell "Chocolate Estacy" actually holds its color really well. I got it in a trade. I never actually expected to like a daylily with chocolate in the name but I love it.

Alicia, your garden setting is very lovely! And a very pretty selection of plants, too. Love the palette you have chosen, those are some of my favorite colors as well. Thank you for sharing. Beautiful! :) Becky

Thank you Becky.

Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos. I am so jealous of your private and lovely surrounding!

Thank you kailleanm.

Beautiful garden! I saw your answer to squirrelheaven re: the achillea and you mentioned that it is fuschia. Is the color in the photo representative of its real-life color? In the photo it looks so different from anything I've seen before. Thanks, Amy

Thank you Amy. I think the photo's true to life; the Achillea had been blooming for a couple weeks already and you know how some pinks can take on a lavender tinge in low light? that's what going on with the Achillea in the picture. I've really noticed that with my Dianthus "Siberian Blues"; they look pink, a bit on the pink-purple side but not much, but actually look lavender in the evening.

I love, love, love your Monarda. One of these days I'm going to get that to grow successfully. I've never heard of Pickerelweed but I'm going to check it out. Does it like sun or shade? Thanks for sharing your beautiful garden. It is very inspiring.

Mary

Absolutely beautiful Alicia!
Your flowers;
your setting;
your home.

Love all the daylilies, but fond of the white one. So unusual to see the white. The Love Grass is so delicate. Reminds me of a very delicate ladies shawl. Lovely.
I have two colors of Bee Balm too- a native Oklahoma Bee Balm with a soft lavender color and the other like your red-violet or magenta colored one. But I just love that deep purple. Wow!
Love that view from the side of your house out into the piney woods. Gorgeous scenery. Very homey.
Thanks so much for sharing with us. I didn't know you lived out like that. Cool.

Annie

Alicia - love your gardens - thanks so much for sharing. I think we are pretty close to each other - I am close to Johnston County Airport so why can't I have a nice stand of monarda **pouting** yours are just beautiful - I am so jealous. I had all of 2 blossoms on my small clump. Keep the pictures coming.....

Lynne

Alicia, I love the look of your place - very cottagey !
Your monarda is so gorgeous. I was just looking at mine this morning thinking it hasn't done too well, but I just started it from seed last year, so I'll give it more time.
Your gardens are an inspiration. Love the daylilies.

Carol

Mary, pickerelweed does very well in sun or part shade. Likes a lot of moisture and can live in up to 2' of water.

Annie the purple Monarda is "Claire Grace". I like it a lot, especially with the Monarda "Raspberry Wine".

Lynne you are pretty close to me. I'm probably less than 5 miles from the Johnston County Airport, off hwy 210. My horses have helped a lot with the Monarda.

Carol, yes, Monarda can take a year or two to get going. And it's a heavy feeder. In my garden it spreads like mad in rich soil, gobbles up all of the organic matter, and then recedes again.

Thank you everyone for your kind comments.