It's so nice to see these pictures on a day like today ! Your monarda combo is so pretty. I'm going to keep that in mind when we can finally buy plants again. I think your pic of the arch with the pathway is just perfect! And it's awesome to see your overall view , sometimes it's hard to picture a whole garden piece by piece. So lovely!

Thanks for the nice comments. I have the lilies divided between 2 beds. One bed is 8ft x 20ft and the other one is 8ft x 30 ft. I'm going to extend the 30 ft one to 40 ft sometime in the near future as I am running out of room. I think I posted about 40 pictures of some of my lilies. I now have a lily album in photobucket with about 80 lilies that bloomed this year (if you are interested in looking). I believe I have about 50 more cultivars on order. My love of lilies has gone from an addiction now to an obsession:) Do you have lilies? Here is a link that might be useful: rfcfishlady lily album

It does seem amazingly early this year for bloom. The crimson pixie lilies are already on their way out now. We've had an early spring this year & everything is about a week ahead of schedule. I kept track of when my iris bloomed, & all bloomed a week early, looks like my daylilies are doing the same.

Thanks, Yall, and please come anytime! Omar, I've never checked the seedlings for color on the stem. I think I will dig out the pink one, around back, and see if that is the cause for the occasional pink blooming seedling. Rhill, there is still a LOT of weeding to do. I put in irrigation in 2009 everywhere except the driveway bed. It still gets watered by hand. Roselee, I cut the yellow cestrum down to about 2 feet tall in early spring or it gets really big. If you will look back up this thread, to the picture of the Rangoon creeper, the plant planted in front of the creeper, to the right of the blue vase, is my red cestrum. I think it has finally found a spot it likes. That is the third place I've planted it, nearly loosing it at each of the other spots. It was blooming this winter and early spring. I can't say yet about the swap, but would really like to make it. Jim