Pomegranite, plum, lettuce, spinach, strawberries instead of grass ( its dense and green and looks nice. Low also so I don't have to mow ). I also grow thyme instead of grass in the parkways. Chard is very nice along with carrots and people don't know it's not an ornamental. One time I grew sweetpeas on the street side of a trellis and sugar snap peas on the house side and nobody knew. Thornless blackberries are easy to wind into a tree and of course blueberries in a big fancy pot look fantastic. I have a rosemary hedge right out in front next to the sidewalk surrounding a rosebush, and some cilantro mixed in with the marigolds. If you mix some flowers in, nobody seems to know you are really growing veggies. I grew tomatoes once, but suggest cherry tomatoes only because if you get some stolen, there will still be some for yourself. I've got a neighbor with a lovely row of asparagus that others think is a fancy fern planting. Potted lemons and tangerines are fantastic in a fancy pot and look elegant. I had to take the tangerine to the back after all the fruit got stolen one year. Curious that no one ever steals lettuce!!!! I sow it all year and think its so pretty. It never gets too big and obvious, because I am always eating the largest plants. My top picks would be Strawberries Blueberries Fruit trees Chard Lettuces Carrots Herbs Anything you can sow and get a quick crop from seems to work fine with bedding flowers ( such as radishes and some herbs >

In the dry stream - 6 inches of rain when it comes down; drought when it doesn't rain for weeks; full sun except where taller plants shade; southeast-southwest lengthwise exposure (the very hottest). *Japanese irises *echinacea (pink ones, not new hybrids) *monarda leucanthemum (first trial this year and they are still evergreen in spite of many torrential winter rains) carex - some can take more sunshine than others. amsonia hubrichtii - planted a bit away from the deep parts, provides shade to smaller plants hardy ageratum - make get toasted toward the end of summer so cut back and you'll have more than you can believe again the next summer. *swamp sunflower - helianthus angustifolius 'First Light' *salvia uliginosa (bog sage - blooms all summer) *asclepias incarnata (the pink ones do the best) *canna anemone (shaded by other plants) It's really not the summer that is the problem. Survival seems to be more about the plants that can handle the wet winter. I put * beside the ones that I think are the easiest and provide the best results with minimal care. Cameron

Hi Carol, My curiosity got the best of me and I did a search to see what it was you are asking about. I ran across your post on the Gardenguides. What a neat vine, the butterflies like it hu? I assume you have some growing? Any pictures to share, what type of growing requirements do they need. Are they related to the regular milk weed? Thanks Karyn

Bog Andromea ROCKS! I need some. Look at how weird the blossoms are. Neato. Perfect height. I just "planted" a rock. It would be great beind the rock. Nell, thank-you for the evergreen daylily list. That is a great list, and I prefer evergreen plants as I tend to dig around a lot in the winter and then wonder what the heck things are under there!! Do you have Moontraveller daylily? I recieved mine from a gal who used Moontraveler as her "handle" here some years ago. It's got oldfashioned daylily traits. It's mainly evergreen, has HUNDREDS of yellow flowers, and re-blooms like the dickens if watered and fed. I have mine on a slight slope which floods when it rains, but is well drained enough not to rot them out. It's a little known but fab daylily! This, and I'm not much of a daylily fancier (although I admit, I have quite a few now. I keep growing them from seed!!) Great suggstions. I put some cast iron plant back in the corner (near the stairwell the pond sits near) too. It's a good back drop. I added a small trellis and pink japanese daylilies for temporary height until the gardenia gets taller and fills in. Evergreen plants and shrubs mean less digging around in the pond for gucky foliage. GGG