Sue I am coming to the conclusion we were brought together for me to wear you out...lol....I guess I cant make excuses for this addiction,your right, there is no good reason it got this crazy....unless you want to,of course,blame my enablers...lol.. speaking of enablers..... Kym your plan sounds like a good one,the thing that scares me the most is the critters and their appetites! Dh has agreed to get me a couple loads of soil....he had to be in the dog house first,but hey whatever works right?...lol..so I will be topping off all of this awful clay soil,with nice new dirt,I cant wait! Woo-Hoo! :)

Just got home! Watched a free concert at Cary sponsored by Lion Rotary Club. It was great, 80's song. :D pvick, my wife loves the garden! She even tells her friends about it. However, she is complaining why I didn't pay attention to the lawn this year. My lawn looks very sad. I'll do something about it on August. It's just so hard to battle the various weeds that's growing north of my property. It's an open lot. I've been battling against it for 3 years now. I'm losing since I have so many weeds now in my front lawn. My neighbors love my lawn 2 years ago and last year. They said, it was like very thick carpet. Anyways, thank you very much again everyone! I really appreciate it!!! :)

It is true that 6 inches is very narrow to plant perennials, but it would work if you don't mind the perennials spilling over the edges of your soil. Some of the sanguineum hardy geraniums might work well there, but they would would definitely sprawl over the edges of the 6" strip. 'Canon Miles' is a fairly compact variety or even 'Alpenglow', 'Max Frei' etc. The sanguineums are all very tough, grow in sun or shade, and are drought tolerant. There are other rock garden types that are quite compact, but they are not quite as tough as the sanguineums and their hybrids. These include 'Ballerina','Lawrence Flatman','Carol', 'Alice', etc. Even with selecting daffodils, I think that I would pick the shorter, sturdy varieties such as 'Tete a tete', 'Jetfire', or 'Feb.Gold'. The other benefit of these somewhat smaller cultivars is that they will have less foliage to look messy after bloom time. Small bulbs like crocus or chionodoxa would look great in this strip, too. I think it is too narrow for daylilies or tall bearded iris. You could plant dwarf iris, but my personal opinion is that their bloom time is far too short to give them space in a small garden. Don't forget that you can still plant some annuals in between the perennials and/or bulbs.

Wonder wonderful thread and pictures - thank you all for posting them. I am just starting to combine Heuchera with Hostas and ferns. I have a nice collection in other beds but I love them with the hostas. The feed back on Snow Angel has been interesting. Mine was really pretty for 2 years and now is about 1/2 the size - seems like it is not a very strong cultivar. I have some started from seed with no names and have really pretty leaf veining on them. Headed over to the Perennial forum and check out their Heuchera thread ..... Lynne