Connie, Shade & McT, Thank You! Connie - safe travels to the warmth. It is -11 right now. Shade - Blue River is a nice one. I moved it after this picture was taken because it was fighting with some Maple roots. In a couple of years it will really be nice. Gypsy Rose gets good light but not direct Sun, another keeper; however, Gypsy Rose is right up there in HVX fears so I will keep an eye on it. McT - Robert Frost reminds me of Liberty and Liberty is one of my favorites. Just like with Blue River, I am waiting to see Robert Frost as it matures. One great thing about gardening is "everything will be bigger & better next year!". Theoretically anyway. Beautiful, Sunshiny day from Minnesota, Cowboy Daylily 'New Clown Face' 7/8/09 Asiatic Lily 'Royal Trinity' 7/8/09

Shade, You are right on the rhinestone Cowboy, but I also do like the Hosta. My Tokudama Flavocircinalus was planted in '04 and this year was the first year I started to really notice it (and it still isn't that big), but it is starting to look good! We have good, black soil. When I dig with a shovel I don't hit clay until about a foot down. There are quite a few trees in the yard so there is shade. I have a trickier time finding places for the Sun plants. Here is a Bing Map of my house. I am the fifth house on the left North of 150th Street on Redwood Drive. You should be able to zoom in to see the trees in the yard (there is a row of White Pines at the back of my lot and there is a car in the driveway). Cowboy

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! Thanks for sharing those, sure did put a smile on my face. Linda in NJ

I must try your "slug cafes" next year Cowboy, good tip on the dollar store baskets, I've got some rabbits here too. Iron phosphate usually works so well but last year it couldn't keep up with the pests, I so wanted to go to the more lethal slug bait but was too afraid I'd poison the birds and my dogs. Which reminds me just now of a nightmare I had last night, dreamed all of the hostas had come up, fully leafed out and I hadn't put any slug bait down! I was racing around like a madwoman trying to play catch up. How much sun is your Golden Meadows getting? It looks like it's in optimum conditions. I'm thinking of moving mine out from under a viburnum that's shading it a bit too much.