I'm actually surprised, and maybe others can fill me in on this, how 10 minutes per zone is sufficient. Unless it's much different temp wise where you are, in MA, the top of my soil doesn't get sufficiently damp and stay damp for a decent amount of time without being watered for 30 minutes with my irrigation system. Even then, there is still a 1 1/2 - 2 hour period where the top feels barely damp or completely dry before it is watered again, only in mid morning and in the afternoon. I water from 3:30am - 6am and it's good until about 9 or 9:30 and then it starts feeling like it's drying out and I have to really concentrate on feeling dampness on the top of the soil. Then it goes off again at 11am, and by 2:00 or so, I can barely feel dampness. Then 4:00 it goes off and it stays damp right on through until the next watering at 3:30am.

Amazingly clear photography! Wow! Your hostas are simply gorgeous, each looking like a poster child representing its cultivar! After seeing the size of your June Spirit I think I need to move mine - she needs more sunlight to achieve some vigour. She is just fine but should be larger by now after 5 years. Thank you for the lovely photos, I really enjoyed them! :D

The pictures are large for me. If they once were large, your computer should have in its memory the larger size. Sometimes when I enter via a google search, I see the small pictures; but when I enter via the saved garden web address, I always see large pictures. Also, when I upload via the saved address, the pictures are large, both in initial post and comments. I have not had much success posting in anything other than comments. The post often disappears and then shows up later, sometimes much later. So brilliant, the Houzz techies. Photos may appear small when you load them, but they are larger when viewed by someone who regularly gets large pictures. So when I load, the pictures look small, but when I submit the post, the pictures are large. Houzz will not let me delete posts, only delete comments.

Beautiful!!! your friend is really talented, I love every one of them!