and three dwarf butterfly bushes ('Miss Molly', 'BUZZ Sky Blue' and BUZZ 'Midnight').

'woody', if your travels you come across BB "pink mico-chip" please let me know as I had two but one died this past winter.

(love those "streaks of sunshine" ;)...I thought they were extra colourful corydalis lutea)

So lush and gorgeous!

..as usual, I've 'liked'...

Me too

very nice

What a lovely view, if I was walking by I would be standing there taking it all in for more than a few minutes and if you were standing out there brazen hussy as I am I would be begging a tour of the rest of your garden.
I don't do much out the front of our house any more, again someone has come and dug up a plant. We went out for dinner last night, when I jumped out of the truck I wandered over to see if a the newly planted piece of "Cobham Gold" a leucanthemum needed a drink, all I found was a hole where it had been planted, probably taken during the night.
I've had a nice clump there for several years but the early freeze the beginning of November and the rest of the mild but very wet winter almost did it in. I managed to save several bits and grew them on in pots planting one back out last month, well it ain't there no more. This shasta daisy I've been told is on the red list so I would have hated losing it, I have 3 little pieces left, 2 will be planted in the back garden behind our 6 foot fence but I'll sacrifice another piece out front. Not that the six foot fence is a sure thing, I've had plants stolen from there too. What's this world coming to :(.

Annette

Annette - if you were walking by and asked to see the rest of the garden, we'd certainly invite you in for a tour :-) Bummer re the theft of your plant! Generally, this is a very nice neighbourhood with no problems - but back in 2006 the top of the concrete bench in the front garden was lifted off and dropped and broken at the roadside. We reported it to the police just so they'd be aware of it in case there were other incidents - it turned out that there were a number of small vandalisms that had happened during the previous night - there's a high school up the street and a couple of rowdy, drunken teens went on a spree... We replaced the bench top and cemented it to the base so it's much harder to lift it now. We worried at first about the bronze sundial - especially when it was still shiny! That one we cemented to a large, flat stone, covered the stone with soil, and planted creeping thyme (which has since died out....) Anybody that tried to lift the sundial out of place would not likely be aware that they were standing on the base! The iron arbour and iron tuteur are very heavy and are set in cement footings so would be very difficult to move! i have some suspicion that a Midnight Rose heuchera may have 'walked' out of the garden last fall - it went missing and there was a round hole where it was. But it had only been planted a few weeks before so would have been easy to remove - at the rate the local squirrel population moves things around, it's entirely possible that a squirrel could have removed it while searching for bulbs that were dormant in the same area! So I haven't yet had any incidents that would seriously discourage me from gardening in the front.