Awww how cute! Love the mourning doves! Melissa, I'll have to research about torties. I have one beautiful girl myself. As I'm typing this, she's sitting here rubbing on me and getting in my way. She's not an outdoor kitty. All our cats are indoor cats. Ginger is my favorite. But she's quite the psycho kitty. She will be all loving and climb up on my chest, nuzzling my neck.. But if I touch her wrong or say the wrong thing... she swiftly swats at my face (claws out) and hisses and jumps away, only to come right back up all lovey dovey again. Sometimes she gets mad if I try to move her when she's in my way at the computer. Then she'll hiss and growl and get all pissy, and even act like she's going to reach out and claw the crap outta me. I will scold her and tell her to knock it off, and you can just see, she wants to be good, and she knows she's being a brat. But it's like she just can't help it! Beautiful, but crazy psycho kitty! Maybe it's because she's a calico/tortie blend. I call her a "tortico." And she has that almost-chimera face. I'm thinking that's why she's so psycho! Ginger

A-ha! I knew it was more likely a tree frog than a toad. It had more delicate features. And I also was thinking about whether or not I'd heard any singing. Thanks. Last year, there was the most beautiful green tree frog in the tall boxwood hedge in the secret sunken garden. It had no markings like the gray.

i have no water .. but am near natural ponds ... the turtles.. leave the ponds.. to come to my sand.. to lay eggs ... in late spring i have to watch out for the quarter sized babes returning to the ponds ... snapping and painted, i believe ... i also do duty.. by getting them off the road.. and heading them in the direction i hope they are going ... its kind of amazing how many peeps cant apparently see a 6 inch turtle in the road ... thx for the post ... very cool ken

Thank you. Vesfl, Lavender Lassie is not a climber, but forms a sprawling shrub here. I keep it heavily pruned back to control width. It's 6 feet wide, but wants to grow wider. It does not grow very tall, however. It's about 5 1/2 to 6 feet tall. The color is medium pink, not very vibrant however. I'll post more photos of it. Gertrude Jekyll is 4-5 feet tall here. I use a stake or mini-trellis to help support it as it arches toward a pathway, but it does not climb. Thanks Ingrid. I see this little guy in the garden almost every day. This is not the whole shrub of Lavender Lassie. It does like to grow wide. Gertrude Jekyll is in the lower left, to compare the color. La Reine Duchesse de Rohan From 2018, Anna de Diesbach in a vase with Clotilde Soupert