Thanks Twix&Dud....It's nice to know folks appreciate the pic's...:) I took a nice vacation to the beautiful state of New Hampshire...spent a few weeks in the Great North Woods....looking for Moose..It was a blast. Thanks so much Jan....Maybe they will be less stressed next season....us too...LOL LOL..;) Thank Ya Jen...It;s nice to still have a little beauty and colour...this time of year...:) Appreciate it Debra...:) I have to get Chartered Course....I have heard nothing but great things about it..:) Thanks Again Betsy...:) Thanks you Tom...I hope to have a few more bloom yet...they made it through a crazy growing season....again...LOL Hey Jane....All I do is place the pots close together...they are on slabs of concrete..allows for good steady drainage....and holds some warmth during the night hours. I have a small border of bricks to block the wind. I used to always use straw bales around the pots, all the way around (Wrapped with plastic twine) This keep them warm and the wind off them too. I use the leaves that I mulch up after the first hard frost and scatter them over the pots, allowing the spaces between the pots to fill in with the finely chopped leaves. Thats it...let Mother Nature do her thing and in Spring as they start to pop up I pull the pots out and let them get sun and air...:) Last Year I didn't even do anything special for them and even the little one gallon pots made it fine...I think blocking the cold north winds/cold and stopping the wind from drying out the pots totally is the key. I think stablized and constant temps seem to be the key too. I believe the temps going up and down all the time do the most harm. I think if you stabilize the temps they are and do, fine...IMHO I found this to be true with most perennials...not just daylilies. Hope that helps Jane...Good Luck with yours...I'll be doing about 150 pots this Winter and hopefully they will all be ok...again..:) Rick

As diggingthedirt suggested, knowing a bit about what your yard's conditions are as well as your gardening preference (symmetrical and tidy, wildly blooming but disorganized, ...?) will help you get suggestions. A photo will also help us envision what might look nice. Along with flowers also consider variegated or colorful (gold, maroon, etc.) foliage and contrasting foliage texture (ferny vs broad vs. long & slender vs. cut-leaves), as often it is decorative for longer than just flowers. Below I've linked a thread asking about an early VT wedding which may have some ideas for you, including some specific suggestions for annuals that will bloom for all of August under normal conditions. If you go to the bottom of the main New England forum page there is a search box. Type in wedding and look at the various threads, even if they are for the wrong time of year. Several of them discuss the potential pitfalls of this type of a plan. They will help you evaluate whether you really want to try this for yourself on such short notice. In general if you want to use perennials many would want to be started the previous year. You can use annuals if you choose varieties that will still be blooming in August and as Digging suggested, there are some perennials that will bloom the first year. If you end up deciding to do this, have a backup plan in case a dog digs up your beds, a hurricane arrives in August and flattens everything, or the weather is odd and nothing ends up blooming at its expected time. It might include scoping out nurseries ahead of time and then buying well grown pots of annuals and putting them in elegant planters or obtaining reallu large vases in which to place tall cut flowers. Paniculata Hydrangeas (shrubs) will probably be blooming then, but you would have to choose one of the smaller selections like 'Little Lamb' since your garden is small, get the largest potted plant you can find and hope that it is happy enough with its new site that it blooms this August. There may be some clematis that would bloom in your area in August, but again, you'd need to buy the largest plant you could find and plant it with as little disturbance as possible so that is more likely to bloom. Regardless of what you plant, plan to spend time weeding and watering on a regular basis this summer. Using pretty mulch (like cocoa hulls if you don't have a dog) will help keep moisture in your beds and will discourage some of the potential weeds, but both will need attention if the garden is to look its best. I am not trying to discourage you, but I would also hate for you to be disappointed that things don't look as you envision on this special day. Let us know what you decide to do. We love seeing photos . . . Here is a link that might be useful: Early August VT wedding thread

Mantis, you are right! On the last set the first has a wrong color of the eye, not as purple of course, so the cell phone got it right, it's just not as bright, and more pink like my old camera captured. None of this added warmness, yellowness. My Yoke is Easy No.1 is right. I should have chosen something else to compare though. Yeah cell phone pics are crisp and detailed, i just do not understand this need for vividness and enhanced colors. My flowers as pale as they are are beautiful to me. I did read in one review that f/ something matters, but not sure what it is and how to change. The camera was overexposing and underexposing, too difficult to get a nice pic. It shouldn't be like this. Yes of course I was waiting for the green light. Kate, thanks! She is our senior kitty and she sleeps a lot. Your phone takes very nice pictures! They look very natural to me. Oh even a quick resizing and tagging that's nice. How interesting that your brother said so. I actually played with a portrait mode on the phone, I like the background blurred but it makes the file size significantly bigger, like from 2MB to 10. Still couldn't get a natural color )) Used to have a Noid just like this! It was pretty. Thanks Brad! That's a nice return policy. I resize in Win10 Photos app. I just need to go one by one, and after the latest unexpected and unavoidable Windows update our laptop got so slow, so that's why it takes forever, Other than that it resizes them to a pretty good size.

I’ve never seen All My Kittens either, I like it! It looks like I’m on the same wave length as Nancy, Liberty Banner is my favorite too. Leotha is a lovely lavender, ah, your soil again! Hoping to see more of your photos soon. Sherry