Ginnier, I have seen the Chihuly display at the NY Botanical Garden and always wondered how they set up such massive displays of glass. Your SIL must have had a blast doing that. Connietn, I realized I don't have many signs from the gardens I've visited but here's a bunch of neat things I've seen at some. Tower Hill Botanic Garden in MA had a very simple entryway with a flag and beautiful planters. Loved this idea with dried allium heads. This was a beautiful fountain that the kids were really drawn to. Such a great turtle fountain. This was on a walk in Paris. I liked the continual towers of roses as a feature. At Chanticleer in PA these were arbors made from thick twigs and rebar. They also had very cool pathways. I thought this was a really cool feature in one part of Chanticleer. They also had many sets of adirondack chairs painted tone on tone with floral decorations. They were in all kinds of colors depending on which part of the garden it was. Sorry for the blurry photo, but you get the idea. They had beautiful bridges too. Ideas from the Chelsea Flower Show. A couple interesting things from the Norfolk Botanical Garden. OK! I'll stop! Sorry. I get carried away when it comes to botanical gardens and public gardens in general. I guess it's a good thing that for some unknown reason I didn't bring my camera to either the NY or Brooklyn botanical gardens or there would have been many more photos! One really cool thing I saw at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was a bunch of huge bugs they made from large wire frames and then they planted annuals around the frames in different colors. So they would have a caterpillar of different rings of colors, or a butterfly with patterned wings, etc.

Here's my 2 cents. For peonies what I tried this year, was putting chickenwire pieces over the shoots in early spring. The shoots then grow up taking the chickenwire with it as support. Even with a peony ring, Honey Gold would always flop over, but last night even dh had mentioned how much better it looked this year. Here's a pic, So I wonder if this wouldn't work for other plants. I realize that veronica is shorter, but if you bent the edges down by about 5" to form a kind of a box, then the plant should be supported well. What do ya think? Laurie

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WOW what a wonderful site and idea! I hope he does really well with it, I was captivated looking at the site. I will definitely share it with our local photo club...thanks Jasdip :)