Thanks Dave: Don't know exactly how may gallons but my pond is 9 ft wide X 18 ft long X 4 ft deep. The bottom is shaped like a bowl so the sides are slightly slanted. Thanks Anne: You are right I painted the weather worn bridge! Found the lighthouse at Marc's for $3. It's actually a terrarium. Thought it would look good by the pond. Last year I had a solar light in it. Was pretty cool. Guess the batteries ran out cuz it doesn't work now. Jenny

Nice flowerbed, Rosepedal. I understand the special feeling one has looking at one's flower bed and thinking, "I love my garden." Other years I have taken a few minutes at the end of the day to sit and enjoy my garden and think "I love my garden." This year with all my beds torn up and in transition I think, "This looks pretty good but will look really nice next year." Glad to see that you have both the light and dark blue larkspur. My light one did not self-sow this spring or I inadvertently pulled them up. I still have some seed so will ws them this winter. The seeds are easy to collect. Seed pods will form in place of blooms and are ready when they are brown and dry. The seed empty out similar to columbine. You can deadhead to keep the larkspur blooming while leaving a few stems to form seed now or wait until later to let them all go to seed. If you let some drop on the ground they will grow next spring. Did the seed come from me? I sent some mixed dark and light blue larkspur seeds to a couple of round robins this year. Bobbie

Yay for you! Great birthday gift. But now you've made me totally jealous. I've watched the last of my possible spaces shrink over the last few years and I'm seriously eyeing my neighbors spare lot, but husband keeps saying 'don't even think it. I've got ten daylily clumps just home from the daylily farm along with 8 pots of already purchased to fit in my remaining spaces. I'll have to be narrowing a couple paths. On the front of the border plants, NJmomma, I think it depends on what one has already in sections. Pardon me is 18 inches and looks great in front if the second in taller. There is but a couple inches difference between height in Pardon Me and Siloam Baby Talk. Also depends on if one does a 'traditional' type border or gardens to a different tune as in cottage-style. Favorites for me that have different bloom times and both small and larger blooms: Siloam Baby Talk Busy Bee Pardon Me Siloam Merle Kent Eenie Allegro Francis Joiner Little Wine Cup Bali Hai Siloam Red Ruby Little Grapette Country Club Matt Little Pink Cloud Siloam Double Classic Good Luck, have fun and Happy Birthday.

Lovely roses Jean! Looks like you've managed to keep the deer away. I wish my FOURTH OF JULY would produce that much. It's several yrs old and I'm lucky if I get one or two blooms at a time. But maybe since I got my sprinkler system in that area it might start doing something!