Nice! That purple flowering tree is impressive- especially the fact that it grew so fast! Is it an Empress tree? You must be in a warm zone since I see a lovely orange tree in your yard. Kitty in the window was pretty cute too ;-) Thanks for the pics...and WELCOME! CMK

Your sarracenia is great, I've seen the plants on line, but never any that looked that good. My favorite daylily is Malaysian Marketplace, it has been the one that really catches my eye this year, but I still really like Peppermint delight. I've tried altromaria here, but only 1 ever returns even though I tried the hardier varieties. It doesn't bloom nearly as well as yours though.

I love your pictures. The seedlings are so nice to see. I really like the colour of the first one. Looks like there are still lots of buds on it. How tall is it? I also like the off white one with the big pink eye zone, beautiful. My favorite seedling has to be Lavender Blue Baby x Peppermint Delight cross. Love the color blend and form. What is the plant planted around the lilies? At first I thought it was petunias but I don't think that's it. Marg

I really liked the blooms on CRM; lovely lilac pinky colour - and they lasted quite well on the bush, haven't tried to pick for a vase yet. No smell either, but then he is only new, planted as a bareroot this winter. Unfortunately he only managed about 3 (admittedly gorgeous) blooms, and like 80% of the collection, (eh, most of that's pretty new, too) is now resting. Peach Profusion tried hard to live up to its name; sadly he got attacked by a big thunderstorm at just the wrong moment, and the blooms suffered. Still, so far its been extremely healthy and bushy with nice glossy dark green leaves. No fragrance, but no blackspot or mildew either. . Only Julia Child, Pope John II and Buff Beauty are still hard at work. Blooms started doing odd things like semi balling, going manky round the edges, and being rather undersized..growth seemed to have stopped, and blackspot is attacking just about everything:( I suspect it may have to do with the weather; grey wet and mostly overcast, with the occasional sunny muggy day; strangely up and down temperature wise. And that's what its like here in Spring, Diane! We get a short cool spring, followed by a fairly hot longish summer, which seems to be getting hotter by the year. I am down south, and near the city/coast; means it doesn't tend to get to the extremes it does in the country- little frost for instance. everything tends to shut down in the last two months of summer tho; the backyard turns into a bit of a desert. I had a bit of a tidy up today, and things do seem to be looking up; new growth is now appearing and hopefully I can get another flush before the really hot weather starts!