Your yard looks great, lots of beautiful blooms in this record heat and drought. Grandma's yellow rose is my most consistent rose so far and a real bargain for $4.00 Lowe's clearance. I'm not really having to water it much either.

I'm putting in a request for Amaranth and puff vine too. I'll try to get some pics up in the next day or so. Have to wait for evening or dawn otherwise the sun is too bright.

Loving it!

Beautiful! I have some pictures I will post tommorrow.

Hey! Its better than what I have right now!

next year will be better... next year will be better...

No time to take pics.........too busy watering.

Beautiful, as always, Roselee !!!

I love Grandma's yellow rose next to that yellow pot! Moleneux is a gorgeous color too! I do love those gerberas, haven't seen that variety yet. The Love in a Puff vine looks really cool, I haven't seen that before! I am also loving the pot in the last picture...beautiful plants and an out of this world container.

Say hi to your pups for me!

I always know the good stuff... I start envying it. ;)

My $331 water bill last month didn't produce nearly as much "pretty" Roselee. Way to go! (But, my grass is alive, which is more than what several of my neighbors can say. If been a rough dry spell).

Very nice, as usual, Roselee... Your Moleneux looks awesome.

Omar

Thanks for your nice comments everybody! I'm looking forward to seeing pictures of your yards. It's fun to know what other gardener are doing and also get ideas for our own places.

Richard, I know rates are different, but my May water bill was $180. That included garbage and sewer charges and I was relieved it was only that much. In years past it's been higher, but only for the month of August. I'm going to be having heart palpatations tearing open the envelope when it comes on the 7th ... LOL

Shirley, I gottcha' down for those seeds. Pam, giving the pups an extra pat for you :-) Carrie, I know the hail tore up your yard, but hope you'll take some pictures of your plants when they have time to recover. PJ, I'm waiting to see those photographs. Melva, next year will be better. Hopefully we'll be even smarter in knowing how to handle this drought for one thing. I just had some tree guys come by and showed them where to dump the mulch when they get some more. Mulch, mulch, mulch -- love that stuff. Omar, the vine you passed along is beautiful. How is your yard doing?

Roselee, your garden always looks so good! Somehow your photos make your garden appear to be about 20 deg. cooler that mine. Your roses are beautiful.
Jim

lovely Roselee, beautiful as always. Learned something new about the spiller, filler and thriller. That's a great way to remember. I'll try and post a few pictures of whats blooming in my yard.

Jim, my yard IS 20 degrees cooler! It's all about the rolled up pillow slip with crushed ice in it that I put around my neck when I'm playing outside ... :-)

Indu, thanks. And I'm eager to see your pictures!

here's mine.. I'm not a photographer so don't expect much.

The back yard doesn't have much right now due to that storm a few weeks ago and the heat. Everything is pretty beat down except the Double Delight roses, and other stuff up next to the house that gets some shade in the afternoon.

Here is a link that might be useful: photo bucket album

Roselee, I'm glad you like your Ampelopsis arborea. I knew you would like it.

My garden is surviving this &^$^%#$$@!! drought but I still have some plants looking decent: yellow Graham Austin Rose, Coral bean, Calylophus, gaura, white crape myrtle,lamb's ear, lantanas, Zexmenia, ruellia, false indigo blue and penstemon. Considering the weather and the limited care, it looks good.

Omar

Mel, considering the hail AND the heat, I think your garden looks really good!
Jim

Thanks Jim. I've resigned myself to the fact there isn't much of a garden this year. Maybe the fall will put on a show but I'm not expecting much. Nearly everything is new, so it hasn't had a chance to get established and its just too hot for them to put out new growth and repair themselves.
2 teams of insurance people were out in the last 2 weeks. Roof, gutters, fireplace vent, turbans, vents, all of it is being replaced. We're getting paid for broken patio chairs, re staining the fences, re painting some of the trim on the house and the portion of the fence the tree took out, plus they're paying for having the rest of the tree removed.

If they covered landscaping I'd be buying a huge tree and all new plants as well.

Right now I'm not even sure all the plants are going to come back from the double whammy of the hail and heat. I don't think the hastas are going to make it. :(

But my Double Delight roses didn't even skip a beat! They were pretty well protected though.

Party Time!!!!!

Each of my hastas have put out some new leaves!!!! There is hope they'll have enough growth time to store energy for the winter and come back next year.

Drinks are on me!!!