OH! OH! OH!, you went there, SHAME ON YOU!!!
well let me see!! do I have enough beer to get thru this one!!! nope only 13 minutes b4 7/11 closes! will have to try this one again tomorrow!!

LOL Paul

Pictures are easier, (ask me what they are if you like, but i could go on forever!! ) and eye candy is better

Paul

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these pictures were just taken a souple of days ago. Hope you like.

sorry about the neighbors garbage cans, was going to ask them to move them but they were not up b4 4pm !!

Oops!! I forgot one!!

Poison ivy and impatiens!!

Paul

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OUCH - I've never had ti and hope I never get it. So sorry for you Paul.
Now on to happier things. Your yard looks wonderful and I'd like to ask what 2 things are. The first is picture 3 - what is the larger hosta at the lower left (or sort of middle) of the photo? And in picture 6 (the last set of hosta pics) what is behind the fence? It's wrapped around the green hydrangea and is red and yellow.
I'm addicted and can't stop!
Sunny

the only problem with pauls garden ...

is that he is so limited by suburbia .....

IN MY WORLD... AS WARPED AS IT MIGHT BE .... only more hosta ... is the answer ...

ken

in pic #3 in the reflection of the window, looks like a camera in your hand, not a beer. SHAME ON YOU!

Paul, i also want to know what sunny asked,beautiful garden, you are very artistic,very!
Who made all the sculptures?,and what are they mad of?I likethem.
You must have a lot of sun,your pond is wonderful, wish you were closer, this is a garden i want to walk through,any more pictures?

Name of plant please?

Carol

Oh, ABOUT THE POISION IVY,OHCH!Worst case i have ever seen,it must be very painful,behind the knees and all. :0(

I also love the sculpture, the colocasia, the hostas, the pond and well, your garden. Nice plant groupings and peaceful, a haven. Now for the poison ivy, I recommend some Zanfel, I had a horrific case this summer, and that was what finally worked to clear it.

What a wonderful garden! So personal and unique. Did you do the sculptures? Very nice. I love all the plants and wonder what the lighter, bright, green with white margin is in the picture with the upright elephant ear. How do you store your elephant ears? They are great. McT

Im sorry jmcbackyarddigger!! I didnt mean to steal your post!! very sorry for that!!

The poison ivy is gone (Thank someone, probably the doctor that put me on steroids!!)

And yes Ken i am surrounded!! but i love this little city of Ferndale, MI!! cant think of anywhere else I would want to live!! But the yards are SO small and the double lots here are too expensive (and a double lot here is probably a 1/4 acre! I dont know!)It would be nice to live out in the middle of no mans land, but I really hate to drive over 40 miles to work one way. and that is how it is around here!! even the city of South Lyons (which was farm country 10 years ago "and is only about 25 minutes from home on the xway> now even has a McDonalds!!! would you believe that!!! it is so built up now!!! my parents used to drive out there when we were kids (8 siblings, and not much money) to go see a movie for less than a dollar each!! That is where I get my hair cut ( friend owns a barber shop) so I know how much it has changed in the last 10 years !! I would love to go back when nothing ws open after 9 pm and life was SOOOOOO much slower (not even a gas station was open on sundays!!! let alone a BEER STORE!!! (and this is not the Quadrillion acre woods that winnie the pooh lived in) this house was built in 1918 and so was this tight knit comunnity) probably spelled wrong there!!

OOPS!! I am rambling..... uh oh yeah now I know, Pics on the hosta forum SORRY!!

Ken you are bad for distacting me!! now i am onto wine cause i forgot to pick up the BEER when i got out of work!!!

okay now for some answers I guess and hopefully in order as they appear to my eyes ( the wine is starting to hit me faster than the beer ever does!! ) and this cat is sitting in my lap which makes it more diffifcult to type (she is really ornery tonight!!)

sunny east texas
pic 3 the three hostas in the pic are Francis williams (behind the begonia)

to the left of that is Sagae

to the right of sagae is aureomarginata something (or Oreo Margaritta)!

Pic #6

That is Perrilla Magilla (not sure on the spelling)
grows just like a coleous, no flowers that i know of (which means no picking out flower buds, and is REALLY easy to start from cuttings, usually i do those in the fall) the one on the right is planted in a pot (with some blue hosta seedlings that you cannot see, and neither can I when i look at it, around the base)the perilla was about 6" tall when put in that pot, and the other in the ground, the hosta in the middle of all of this is Rich Uncle. and the black things in the background are my neighbors garbage cans that I cannot photograph around!!

Thanks for the nice comments (always love to here them, dont we all?)

Hey upnort!! I didnt even see myself in that pic until i read your post!! (there is a ghost in my yard, or did you get out the microscope to check out the pic? now i see the bird feeder in there, hope the birds arent hungry!!) was having a hard time juggling the two, (the beer can just wasnt taking the pics i wanted!!)so I had to hold the camera!! DARN and i was so thirsty!!

Carol ( I should have said Sunny and Carol, Sorry!!)
oh wait!! the dryer is done (have to fold and put in the other load) back in 15!!

thankyou for the nice comments!! my head is swelling as my glass gets more empty (does that make any sense, this is the wine speaking , it is so much different from drinking BEER)

Actually my pond does not get that much sun, only a couple of hours a day, (well maybe 6 at different times) I have a large canopy of MAPLE, elms and oak, all of them are mature. I love the shade that they all make!! which makes it so nice to sit on the deck and just watch the yard grow. and then go pull another weed b4 i take another picture or go grab another can of beer(or grab the 5 gallon bucket and fill it from the pond to water another hosta). that plant is also in pics #1 to the left next to blue angel
#3front and center
#5 to the left (which is the same plant in pic number, oh jeez #6?)

Hey starina thanks for the Zanfel tip!! is that a cream?
it only cost me $10 (and 2 hours)to see the dr and $10 for the steroids (insurance). which started to work on the second day!!
but took about 2 weeks to finally clear up after 2 weeks b4 seeing the doctor!!

oh carolreall tough! (well, and gross!)

hey mctavish6! Thanks for the nice comments!

pic# 2? is wide brim if i am correct
or pic # (soory i have to go back and count) oh, have to go count again...oh and again... lost my thought here... #4? to the lower ledt (i think the wine spelled that one!!) uh left? is ... darn, one more time (darn wine, not like the beer)...hold on, let me go back....oh jeez! what is that!! let me think!! ummmmm oh yah ,,, uh uh uh OH!!! summer breeze next to the uh japanese painted fern. WOOO!!!

that was hard to do (LOL)

okay, and for the sculptures, there are actually 3 total, only 2 in these pics, a very nice friend of mine was living in an upstairs flat, just around the corner from me, such a really nice guy. was helping him move to an apt around the corner from where he lived, they were in his back yard when he moved there. when he moved out the land lord told him that he could take them with him if he wanted to. they are made of ceremic and weigh between (depending on which one) 150 to 400 pounds each. he told me and my partner that we could have them. (had to leave one behind because after moving 3 we were pretty well worn out) (and kinda upset to leave one behind) they were made by a previous tenant which the landlord (or my freind) didnt rememner the name of. so we picked them up( and not really that easely) and brought them over the couple of blocks to our house! and what a chore that was!! but they are SO WAY COOL!!

oh and mctavish? I store my elephant ear in 5 gallon buckets over winter. no holes in the bottom in a sunny window. they like a lot of water. except the Xanthosoma in pic #(have to count again, DARN)4!!! (yes!! okay,getta grip) in a very large pot, in a window. my dining room in the winter time is pretty much a over winter plant area, I have a 7' ficus and some orchids and others to deal with. and for some reason i take the tropical waterllily in for the winter too!!(which all my freinds can attest too!!

and the second load in the dryer is done, hold on, more folding and hanging stuff!! AAARRRGGHHHHH!!!!!''

did i tell you that i dont have an eye patch or a parrot?

If this doesnt make any sense at all or I have spelled something inkorrectlie, I will blame it on the "charles shaw" wine that i am drinking!!! (or 2 buck chuck for those who shop at (oh no !! i forgot the name of the store!! oops sorry!!)

well any who

thanks for all of the nice comments (except for KEN, there are no cows in FERNDALE!! LOL!!)

Paul

ps I hope i got to everyone here! and id this message is rejected i will be so POed

rimhblmao....what was the question????
hey paul, I wanna know how you took the pic of the back of you knees(now theres a visual) and did you ever notice how many phalic symbols you have in your yard?

Paul, you are so funny! I'm thinking of asking another question just to get you going. Be sure and have more wine first though. McT

Hey Upnort!!! you ever play twister when you were a kid?

actually i had a freind take them for me!! Can you imagine someone trying to bend over to take that pic??
way to funny!!

Oh and then i went out the next day to count all the 'phallic symbals' in my yard, I ONLY have about 12!!
Hmmm does that mean my yard is pornographic???

And McT, hopefully I wont be drinking wine for a while, errrr well, maybe a week!! LOL

Sorry again to backyarddigger, Iwas just having some fun

Paul

Lovely garden and great photos! Well, with the possible exception of the poison ivy - yowch!

And I am lol-ing at you finding 12 of them in your garden!

Alexa

Holy Mole looks great with Hydrangea Annabelle- middle of the hosta leaf picks up same green coloring of the flowers on hydrangea.
Also my hosta Gilt by association was looking magnificent next to lysimachia ciliata firecracker with its purple leaves early spring- everyone who've seen it commented on it.