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

Oh, my!!! I accidentally landed here, while beaming back and forth between 'Conversation' (not much going on there)to 'Discussion' and I'm sure glad I got side-tracked here. Your pix are so awesome, John! Thank you for sharing them, especially these days! They have given me 'a shot in the arm' and I can't wait for Spring again! I love the 'show' in Spring with the sometimes purple eyes emerging, pushing up to stand tall and slowly unfurl, and the leaves displaying their particular Spring colors lasting well into Summer! Then, the Summer show begins, with many scapes making their appearance early on! Thank you, John--oh, and I STILL love my daylily magnets! :o)

WOW !!! Can I find my house the same way you showed yours? How do you do that? please let me know. I'm not fortunate enough to have a church with permission to use their land behind me. The backyard neighbor I have is such a lazy character he only mows about once a month and sometimes not even then in the summer. He did no fall cleanup and I expect the leaves to all end up in my yard over the winter. Maybe the long grass will keep some of them in his yard. We have lived here into our 18th. year and I have only seen his wife 3 or 4 times. The last time in '06 when I asked her husband to tell her to come walk through the garden before I had a grarden walk. Thank goodness their very scary German Shepard dog died as I couldn't be in garden when he was out. They did have one of those underground fences to keep him in but once he came over anyway and I never trusted the fence again. We can't pick our neighbors can we. Connie

Thank you guys. You help with my inferiority complex. I've just finished (in spite of computer and printer problems) putting together a calendar for my sister and I of our gardens and hostas from last year. Her plants are so monsterous and some are way younger than mine. The Pacific Northwest must be the ideal climate for hostas. She'll be here in a couple weeks and I'll get her permission to treat you all to some views of her wonderful garden. I took some pictures on June 24th so I'll add a thread now. Cheers everyone. Myrle