Thanks all for your compliments. I am really patting myself on the back for this. Sugarcreek: I just love my bridge. Got it at Big Lots. I got the baskets at Big Lots too. They were $10 apiece. They come with a cocoa fiber liner. I placed spagnum moss in the baskets and just plopped the plants in. I am trying to hide my liner, but as you can see a lot of it still shows. Under the bridge there are two 4X4's on each side. The bridge hides my gate valve and clean out valve. When I bought the baskets I browsed though Big Lots to see what I could use to hang them. I found these huge utility hooks (see link). Fortunately they fit over the 4X4s. After removing the cocoa fiber liner, I placed 2 hooks per basket over one of the 4X4s and slid the other 4X4 over so the hook is sandwiched between them. I then used little blocks of wood (approximately 2 in. X 1 in.) that I drilled a hole through the middle of. After placing the threaded end of the utility hook through the side of the basket I screwed one of the blocks of wood onto it. This is what secures it. My brother-in-law brought me several rolls of colored fabric netting which I placed in the basket before placing the cocoa fiber lining back. If I didn't do this my koi would eat the cocoa fiber and my plants would be on the bottom of the pond. I can't tell you where to get the netting. My b-i-l brought it to me when Topps closed. (He was safety manager at the time and dug it out of the dumpster.) He thought it would make great filter media and he was right. I use that stuff for everything. I am going to miss it when it's gone. I will try to take some pics tonight and post them. Cliff & Joann: No I never tried to put vinca vine in the ground. Will have to give it a try. I know it's an annual, but do you think it will make it though an Ohio winter? The first year of my floating baskets I grew spikes. When the summer was over I threw the baskets onto the flower bed and covered them with piles of leaves. The spikes made it though the winter. I was so happy. Jenny Here is a link that might be useful: utility hook

You can always plant some pansies and/or violas, ornamental kale and even seed some lettuce to fill in (and to eat - Red Sails and Black-Seeded Simpson) in those areas with cool season color this winter. It looks really nice and I can't wait to see it when your daylilies are blooming next spring. (your pics posted here at Garden Web, of course;-)

this is new jersey, as in northeast coast US near new York. I'm doing work at someone's house. Their goal initially was to just have a no-mow no water or fertilizer lawn. Then I or they pointed out how some of these no mow/water/fertilizer covers can be flowering type things instead of just grass and they liked that idea better. So we set out to find something like that online in seeds or plugs but I didn't really find anything at first. I just recently found a lot of those things are on ebay cheap seeds and should be started indoors over winter and planted in spring instead of planted now in Fall like grass seeds. At first, we kind of scrapped the idea of a flowering cover because they wanted to do the whole lawn with it but don't want it to spread to the neighbors' lawn especially underground and popping up. So we decided to just do a no-mow type lawn like Pearls Premium http://www.pearlspremium.com/ But considering the cost of the no-mow lawn seeds and not using chemical starter fertilizer or crabgrass preventers, it's a gamble to try and plant and hope it doesn't just turn to crabgrass. I have organic fertilizer but it's no where near high in phosphorus to develop good roots quickly like regular starter fertilizer, Organic starter fertilizer I can only find online believe it or not. Instead of doing the whole yard with something like Pearls Premium, It would probably cost them less for me to just till large landscape beds throughout the property and then get seeds off ebay of things like flowering ground cover (that doesn't spread underground like crazy) and things like creeping juniper etc. I'm open for suggestions on thing like this. Once these things are established, they need zero water and zero mowing and maybe a sprinkle of organic fertilizer every few years. They will need a pruning every few years but that's like an hour of work maybe. At the beginning, yes the newly planted landscape beds will have to be de-weeded well until the plants establish and thicken it up. We're leaving about a 8 foot border space from the property line that will just remain how it is now which is basically weeds with some turf grass mixed in. A no-mow lawn still needs to be cut maybe 3 times a year, so these 10' borders will have to be mowed anyway if they're left how they are or if regular grass or no-mow grass is planted there. Once the landscape beds are thriving, they can decide to plant regular or no-mow grass in the border areas. I can do that now since it's the right time instead of waiting until next Fall but we want to see how the landscape beds go first. I can probably just scalp mow the weedy border areas and that will really retard growth there so that omits the whole having to plant grass there but the yard will still look nice because of the landscape beds. Get the idea now? It's about making a nice yard with minimal mowing, watering, fertilizing, and the cost is very low thanks to ebay seeds. perennial ground cover flowering: http://www.pbcgov.com/newsroom/1211/_images/ground_covers_tibouchina.jpg http://img.diynetwork.com/DIY/2014/03/07/CI-Stepables_Groundcover-wooly-thyme_h_lg.jpg creeping juniper: http://s45.photobucket.com/user/mishmosh2000/media/misc/Oot_Picture-7.jpg.html etc

but hubby does say I over-baby-treat my plants... Is there such thing? ==>>>yes.. and many peeps actually go too far.. and kill their plants ... i call it.. killing them with too much love.. but it doesnt sound like you are close to that .. i planted moonbeam 15 years ago ... in sand ... its still wander around the bed out there.. ind i have done nothing for it.. in the last 10 years.. nothing.. no water.. no food.. etc ... do dig up some pieces.. learning about whats going on underground is half the fun you are missing ... if it was in perfect full sun.. they would not be leaning away from the taller plants behind ... FWTW ... ken