Thanks for the nice comments. I'm quite pleased with how the garden is looking (aside from too many weeds sprouting after the rains and heat we've had - cursed garlic mustard weed in particular!) I'm almost positive that is not a Nelly Moser. It is a bit pinker than it looks in the picture and it does have a stripe down the center of the tepals. The stripe is a darker pink. Kathy - I have a Ramona on the south fence in the back yard and it doesn't look anything like the one with the lilac. It's also not blooming yet. But then I wouldn't swear to the one in the backyard actually being Ramona - it seems that almost every clematis I buy turns out to be something other than what the label says it is! I've concluded it doesn't matter what their names are as long as I like their blooms and they grow well for me... PM2 - the biggest hosta in the patio hosta bed is plain old Hosta sieboldiani 'Elegans' - an oldie but a goodie :-) On the right side of the patio is a 'Bressingham Blue' that is finally hitting its stride after 3 or 4 years - it's the big round leaves you can see on the right in the second to last photo. I've also been adding several Blue Angel and Blue Mammoth in a few places to see how they do. I'm a sucker for big, preferably blue, leaves! Yes, the Beautybush is a Kolkwitzia. Marian, the drawback with planting one is that it took about 5 years for that one to get big enough to flower - I gather that it's common for them to take a few years to flower but they are very pretty when they do! And, yes, the veggies are in pots because there is too much shade in the back for a vegetable garden there. The blueberries used to be in the back but got shaded out. I moved them to pots last spring. They didn't produce any flowers or fruit last year - I thik they were too shocked by the move. They spent the winter in the garage. They produced lots of flowers and there are a lot of green berries forming now so I'm hopeful for a good crop this year - if I can keep the birds off them when they start to ripen...

I would love to do a trade with you. Strawberry Rhubarb is a particulary sweet type of rhubarb plant that has red stalks. Rhubarb is a perenial garden plant, that is used for making sauces compotes, jams, pies and wines, and crumbles. Maybe more. I will email you

hello all Yes Kathy everything found it's way here in perfect condition! much better luck than I have with ebay!!!!=) I wanted to let everybody know what else I received! can't forget the box of girl scout cookies dosidoes (yum) bell pepper mix yarrow white pampas grass white rosemary vitex chaste free primrose tall yellow Heuchera dale's strain grape hyacinth mix coyote (ind) cherry tomato's dwarf red plains coreopsis long red cayenne pepper jewels of opar mg lavender diathus black caps berry lav/purple wisteria black pearl ornamental edible hotpepper cosmos cosmos daydream eccremocarpus scaber tresco hybrids mg scarlet o'hare tovarah-painter's paletteafrican sunflower jaffa ice bread-seed poppy purple pink petunia big leaved blue hosta tithonia fiesta del solfreesia soapwort lotus marigold dwarf french mix and beach chair post cards I sure hope i did not forget anything! Kathy thanks again for everything Now I need to make time to go and play in the dirt. Joseph

I don't care if pictures are in perfect focus or not. I just want to see the flowers others are growing successfully! I especially love those irises. Yum yum. I wonder if the columbine will come back from seeds, or the plant? I love the spring color columbines offer! Thank you for posting :-)