Here's mine! Double Dazzler and Autumn Red in the foreground. Background left to right is Wide Wide World, Pandoras Box and Little Grapette. You can see Autumn Minaret reaching for the sky.

I don't think I could limit myself to just one favorite so please forgive my two......(but there are so many more, even with the drought conditions we had).

Sherry - Your daylilies and lilies look beautiful together!

Celeste - Your gardens look like a fancy botanical garden of wonders. How I would love to wander through it looking at all the different plants and combinations!

Debra

Wow!! What lovely gardens. We need an expanded garden tour!! I must confess to be guilty too in choosing two pics. Debra, you and Sherry need to go back and add another!! Signet, I love your garden path. I could not pass up my roses which bloom before my daylilies so cannot get both into one pic. But both make for wonderful garden seasons in the spring and summer. Kate

Shelby's Song looks very good in your garden, Celeste.

I like to see trees in the background of gardens; gives more dimension. Unfortunately, they can be both a boon and a bane when it comes to nearby plants. Some cultivars benefit from some shade, but those tree roots can be a problem.

Double Dazzler is a bright one in your garden, Sherry. I don't understand people who don't want yellows in their daylily garden.

"to remember the joy and warmth of summer."

From three different gardens I tend:

Such lovely photos all! Come on spring!

Ok, you talked me into adding a few more! Here is one with the common Stella D'oro, she looks good here.

Signet - I love the winding stone pathway through your garden as much as the flowers!

Sherry - What are the gorgeous drifts of blooms in your photos?

Mantis - What is the viney plant with the pretty coleus collection?

Debra

It is Ipomea blackie, I think. I have found that this newer, finer-leafed cultivar trails better from a pot.

Gives me an excuse to add another pic. But last summer was not all joy. It required constant watering, many things were disappointing, and the last part of the summer was very hot. But the autumn was mild, albeit exceptionally dry.

Debra, the pink blooms in each photo is a common shrub here, spirea. I trim it back after it blooms in the spring and I get another bloom in September.

The white and purple are clematis. The purple has been in the yard for over twenty years and I don't recall the name. The white is Sweet Autumn clematis. It gets trimmed back to the ground every spring and still get vines about 12 feet long and it smells really nice.

Sherry

Sherry, so glad you added more. These are beautiful. Mantis, I love those variegated leaves. That shot looks so tropical. And yes, I was "inspired" to add a couple more. We all have more than daylilies, it seems! I agree with Mantis about yellow. I love that color in all plants. Here is the way my spring starts. Not a planned garden. Nature's garden.

Houzz did not load my other photo. Here it is. Roses from another view.

Beautiful photo!

Love the roses Lily. I don't grow them any more because of my dogs. Don't want any eye injuries.

Sherry

I don't blame you Sherry. I saw those cuties on the other thread! I don't keep up with my rose names like I do with my daylilies but I do love that spring flush. Your gardens are just lovely. Kate

Surprised that the spirea reblooms so strongly. You don't know any of the rose names, Lilykate? Are they Austin roses?

Wow what great eye candy ......there are a few green thumbs among us it seems LOL! Thanks for the comment on my path Shive . It is a work in progress but it may never be completed the way I envision it . I use broken patio stones and whenever I can get my hands on sufficient pieces I extend the paths but there are a lot of paths in my back yard ( my husband HATES that he cant use his riding mower in the back anymore because of my gardens .....and here I thought I was helping by eliminating grass.)

Here are a couple more images this one is to the left of what you have already seen ( I love this one .....it had just finished raining when I took it and everything looks so lush) This is actually just before the daylilies bloom

this path leads to my larger water garden .....and the resident frogs

and This is to the right taken from the back porch

Spring cant get here fast enough for me !

Oh, you know how we hobby gardeners are, Mantis. I know a few of them!! Yes, some are Austins. The pink one is an Austin. Tag is at bottom but I cannot remember. Front orangy one is Easy Does It. The rest are OGRs that I have ordered over the years. All rebloomers although nothing like the first flush. I had about 100 but have downsized considerably. The problem is people keep calling me to come get what I call "rescue roses" which have not grown well in their gardens. I'm a sucker. Kate

Signet, my post met yours in cyberspace I think. I love your pics. And your hazy one is beautiful. It does make us long for spring doesn't it? I like this post. I do enjoy seeing how other gardeners landscape.

Just lovely Kate and Signet! I wish I had that much space. Your hard work is really paying off!

Sherry

Wow, what beautiful gardens all of you have. Great pictures. I have nothing like that; I have a 1/4-1/3 acre lot plus a trampoline and kids, so I have to keep my flowers down to a few beds. But here are a couple of group shots.

Signet, love the weeping willow, and is that a catalpa next to it? Brad, as I think most here know, I have extended my yard by tending gardens elsewhere. (E.g., I don't have a pool.) One of those is the hospital bed, which I am considering quitting because of non-cooperation. Last year, the hospital system hired a lawn service (an incompetent one) that in early September bush hogged the gardens, calling it "cutting back for the winter." But I am encouraged by patients and staff that admire the gardens.

I forgot to mention . I LOVE the daffodils hillside!

Mantis , you have a good eye ! . Yes on either side of the back yard gate I planted 2 willow branches ( about 5 years ago) . Now they are about 15 feet high and I love them but they cast a lot of shade . Stretching out right and left of each one are daylily beds that are not presently doing well because of all the shade so I will be moving them this spring . So we have the fence and a path then long 3.5 foot wide gardens on either side of the willows then another path and another garden on each side of........... well this may be easier to see .......

Where the stars are along the garden to the right there are 3 maples The catalpa in front is throwing far too much shade so I either have to cut it down this year or I will try this winter to cut it back so hopefully it will form an umbrella like top otherwise it really has to go . When we moved here I had never seen a catalpa tree......with its lovely orchid like blooms . Fell in love with them and now have about 20 on the property. they are easy to grow from seed.

WOW!!!! What loveliness you all have created. I love seeing everyone's little paradises. I couldn't resist adding a few more since it's sleeting and snowing outside and everything's slumbering. It will be June until I see roses and July before the daylilies bloom. So photos of flowering things are welcome and I hope more will post theirs!

I live on a country road so I have two very long borders of roses and perennials, which I can't fit it all in one photo.....

All my daylily beds (dozens) are behind these borders but I can't fit them in a photo!

Celeste, a feast for the eyes!

Sherry

Celeste, Your pictures are awesome. I can't see how you could possibly have the time to keep them all so perfect!

Brad

Yum ! Thank you everyone for sharing you garden images. I need this .....it is grey and grey and more grey out there this morning with no end in sight.....not even snow to break the greyness .

Mantis your canna garden is breathtaking . Celeste your roses are glorious . I would love to grow roses here but I just have no luck with the heavy blue clay they like to call soil here . I have tried Bear's Breeches three times , lupins dozens of times, and lots of other plants that just cant deal with being cooked through the summer. I tried for a time to import soil to make the beds more friable but the clay seems to eat it up and I dont have those kinds of funds to continually replenish so I had to find something that would grow in the conditions here. Daylilies stepped up to the task . They grow and even thrive in the horrible droughts we get here ( which by the way are getting worse ) and there is enough diversity within the plant itself that I dont necessarily need other plants and they put on a show that makes all the digging worthwhile.

signet.....thanks! My roses are glorious up until the 4th of July when the Japanese beetles come calling. After that, they chew the blooms so badly they look like shredded tissue. I used to have over 300 roses but got rid of most of them because of the beetles. I am down to about 50 now. I got the daylily crazies after the rose fever because of the ease of care and the beetles leaving them alone. Brad, I am a slave to my gardens.....I love them but sometimes I wish I hadn't been so ambitious....lol.

Brad, your gardens look great. You have done a great job in a small space. Edward, what an eye catching grouping. So colorful. Signet, your beds are beautiful. Celeste, as always, your road borders are awesome. Do your perennials return each year? I have so many that should but dont.

Kate, yes my perennials do come back every year. Everything is survival of the fittest and I don't mulch for the winter....but mercifully, I rarely lose anything. The exception would be a newer variety of coreopsis that I bought one year that is supposed to be hardy down to zone 5....so I was pushing the limit. It did not return.

I am lucky that my foxgloves re-seed themselves every year since they are biennial. I had one original plant many years ago and many generations have followed with no extra work involved!

I try to stick with what's tried and true so I don't have that disappointment....but every once in awhile something unusual beckons me and I 'must' have it.

Here's those foxgloves doing their thing behind the daylily bed:

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I absolutely love Foxgloves and yours are great! I forgot to mention that above but meant to. I've tried them from seed a couple times but no success. Probably didn't put them in the right place or something.

Sherry - I grow Sweet Autumn clematis too, but your blooms look so much bigger than mine. The flowers on mine are only about an inch and a half in diameter. Yours sure are pretty. I love the spirea!

Signet - Your stone paths are marvelous and well worth having to mow around! Thanks for the additional photos!

I only have a city lot, and I've had to sacrifice a lot of perennials to make room for more daylilies. I did have a large drift of self-seeded black eyed Susans in the backyard. I think they convey the warmth and joy of summer quite well.

Debra

Debra, I love the black eyed Susans! I have a miniature Rudbeckia that reseeds "millions" of plants and Goldstrum rudbeckia that reseeds but my others have not. Yours are so happy. I probably need a large city lot to force me to downsize. Instead I have acres that a younger and more energetic me on the inside keeps telling the older worn out person on the outside to keep planting and expanding! I really need to muzzle that inside me! Kate

What a great idea Debra. WOW everyone, such beautiful gardens! I am under about 3 ft. of snow right now so this is particularly welcome!

This is the miniature Rudbeckia in the background. I have forgotten the name.

Peren.all, those are beautiful pictures! I love all the diversity in your plantings. I like ornamental grasses also but don't have any. Yours are fantastic. How cathartic in this dreary winter to view everyone's gardens. Thank you, Debra, for starting this thread.

Laurie, such beautiful gardens! I always enjoy seeing your photos!

Debra, I remember that rudbeckia from last year, couldn't find that lovely variety last year in plant form, must look for seeds somewhere. My Autumn Clematis flowers are tiny like yours.

Sherry

Thank you lilykate & Sherry. I suppose I should expose a particular passion of mine and at least one other person here...hint.

Ok Laurie, got it! Here is a double duty photo daylily and hosta!

Lllykate - The miniature rudbeckia looks great with the zinnias. I bet that combo attracts lots of butterflies.

Debra

OMG , I was reviewing these posts ( as I do time and again ) and read this from Lilykate " a younger and more energetic me on the inside keeps telling the older worn out person on the outside to keep planting and expanding!" I can so relate to this statement ! I do the same thing . We own 2 acres and I am slowly working my way eastward on the property with daylilies much to the chagrin of my husband who told me this summer ." you see that bed you just dug and planted? it is your last one ! " Ha , he really should know me better than that after 30 plus years together . HA HA HA HA