Frank Bielec and Carter Oosterman were there, Frankie is the one that I know. Forgot to tell you, they were giving away free tree starters, I got a Black Walnut and 2 Cypress trees to plant.

LL- thanks. I'm not sure what I'll put on the gate. There's not enough room for a rose, so for now I have an allamanda, but it's not hardy here. I've been thinking that when it goes, I'll replace it with a jasmine. I've not been to the cottage garden forum for a while. I need to go check out that thread. professorroush - I am quite embarrassed and am hanging my head low. The red rose in the 2nd picture is (whispering now) a... knockout. The peach rose in the third is the mini Carnival Glass (same fence, different bed). You see, when I started gardening I started with knockouts, moved to other moderns, and finally on to OGRs. (I'm a 'backdoor' convert.) My OGRs are quite small and I have no "garden" pictures of them yet. Still explaining....I never SP (if it lives, it stays), but as my moderns and HTs pass on, I'm replacing them with mainly OGRs. Well, I hope everyone forgives me for posting a knockout on the Antique Forum! I didn't think about it until too late! (Walking away sheepishly now.)

move : edit : share : delete lacunoas3.jpg URL Link HTML Tag IMG Code Gene , you will see something like this on PhotoBucket with each of your pictures and you can copy this "code" directly to GW posting any of the three and they will link to your photobucket pictures. The "HTML tag" is the best one to use. Another way is to click in that little box and then look at the bottom of the page for a button labeled "Generate HTML and IMG code", clicking this button will generate several codes that can be copied directly into your GW post and create links to your pictures. Please try it -Leon

That is a dramatic progression of pics Wendyb! I can sympathize with your loss. I have had tremendous losses to voles over the past year since the snowy winter of 2011. Large chunks of roots of many of my favorite perennials. Most of them look like your Hakonechloa and there are more or less remnants left. Although the bulbs in the front garden did not fare so well - they were pretty much wiped out, except for a few, and the Daffodils of course, which no critters eat. Last summer the cat caught DOZENS of voles, and I dispatched a few myself, and they seemed to be largely brought under control. However there was one still rampaging through my front garden this past winter up near the sidewalk where the cat doesn't hunt. So a few weeks ago I mixed up this vole repellent that was recommended on the Hosta forum, using castor oil and human urine. Used the watering can and sprinkled that over whatever perennials and bulbs were left in the front garden that I know the voles like. Lo and behold, no more losses since then! In the next few days, I want to transplant a dozen or so Echinacea plants back in to the front garden. These are good sized seedlings and remnants I rescued last year. I plan to make permanent barriers out of hardware cloth to encircle the roots of those.