Those are all stunning, but I personally don't believe it isn't all beautiful.; ) In any case, I like to see it all! The irises and crepe myrtle provide such a contrast. Happy you could get out today.

Bravo ;) Lovely, lovely, Ingrid. Your garden has such good bones and surrounding views that it's hard NOT to take a good photo. Keep "editing" all you want, you have an enviable garden.

John

Beautiful! I always enjoy your garden photos. Thanks for sharing

The artistic rendition of your gardens is lovely!

Kate

Kate, how nice to see you here in addition to your "usual" spot. Thank you and everyone else for the positive comments. vaporvac, the photos were taken last night after sundown. I took a quick foray out this morning to make sure all the water bowls for the animals were filled and that was it for me. Later in the day I send my husband out to check the bowls again because most are empty or dirty by that time, even though we have six of them if I include the bird bath.

All looks so lovely. I agree with everyone's comments above!

Beautiful.

Oh, Ingrid. These are truly beautiful. I feel transported to heaven which I don't believe in. I have such hope after seeing these pictures.

Sheila, thank you and everyone else, but I think you're not aware of how beautiful your garden is, and what you've accomplished in such a short period of time, not to mention how many more roses you have, all of them wonderful. What's magical is that most of us who love roses will have an environment that will allow some classes of roses to thrive, and we can create our own version of heaven right here.

Ingrid, these are amazing! Your garden looks great!!!! I have a question about the limonium.... as you know I planted two in my garden to see how they'd do (emulation). One didn't do much, no flower but that's fine. I planted it later (just before the hot spell), the other has one flower stem and it's been just sort of static for over a month. Should I just leave it? Is that what you're supposed to do? Will it rebloom if I cut it back? I mean it looks great as it is, I'm just curious.

Really Ingrid, your garden.... it's so lovely.

So lovely rose pictures, edited or not! And I envy you your wonderful view.

Thank you, Anna-Lyssa and Marianne. We are really grateful to be living in a place that has nice views. It adds a lot to our lives.

Anna-Lyssa, here the limonium perezii takes a while to build up before it begins to grow flower stalks. Ample water will help it to grow faster. It's best to cut back the flower stalks when the blooms have faded and new ones should come up, even in the heat. I've found that ample water is what they appreciate the most. It will get larger and larger, until you see dead leaves at the bottom and the whole thing will be huge but begin to look grungy. By that time you might notice smaller plants have grown around it. At that stage I uproot the ugly giant and discard it, and let the youngsters take over. After a while you may find them all over the garden and you can leave them to grow if they're in a spot you like or just pull them out. You're far from that stage, but I wanted to let you know how this plant operates in the long run so you'll know what to expect.

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!! Can I bring a sleeping bag and live in your yard? :)

Rebecca

Rebecca, of course you may. The tarantula we spotted last night won't hurt you, and the two skunks I happened upon by the house a little later were okay, mostly because I turned tail and got out of there, and the second rattlesnake we've seen in the last few weeks probably won't bother you if you lie very still in your sleeping bag. I'm quite sure our resident raccoon will stay out of your way. The coyotes that visit our yard are only after rabbits.The mountain lions haven't been seen in our area lately. Oh, what the heck, you can sleep in the guest room......

Your garden looks like a lush oasis! What a breathtaking view you have around your home.

Thank you totoro. I would love for it to rain to refresh the plantings, and everything seems to put on a burst of growth after that. Quite a few of us are moaning about no rain, so I'm in good company.

SO FUNNY, INGRID!!! I was doing just fine until I got to the rattlesnake!! I do think your garden looks like a little bit of Heaven and you sound like the kind of person who deserves and enjoys what you have. Thank you for sharing it with us!!! And thank you for the offer. :)

Rebecca

It's all looking VERY good there, Ingrid! I know you said not much is blooming, but it still looks great to me. It has been a bit more humid than usual here in the past week or so. Sweating weather for me, but it seems my roses are not drying up quite as quickly as usual. Do you have a bit more humidity lately, too? I hope so for your roses, but not for you personally. It's even partly cloudy today! I like that very much!

I love the look of your Blush Noisette. I need to look into that one, not that I need more. It's just that any rose you like, and does well for you, will be a good one here. Does Blush Noisette become large? That's what I need to avoid.

Again great pictures. I always enjoy them very much. I do think you should try Dahlias. Did you ever see the info and pictures I posted for you? Lisa

Rebecca, I have a feeling you'd be a very enjoyable guest. Perhaps Lisa and I can share you since she's less than 20 miles away and you'll get more bang for your buck when it comes to roses.

Lisa, it has been humid but as you said it's somewhat cloudy today, and the high temperatures that were forecast for the weekend earlier in the week fortunately did not arrive. You're also too kind about the garden but I can assure you that overall it's no great shakes. Hardly anything is blooming and the ones that are happen to be more or less in the same area and that's how I was able to fool you all.

Darn it, I think I did miss your remarks about the dahlias. I remember the picture of the beautiful pink one, although I wonder whether it would do as well for me in the greater heat. It would be so nice to have another companion plant, especially something as showy as dahlias.

I'm afraid Blush Noisette does indeed become large. It's already outgrowing its space and I haven't even had it for two years. If I try to prune it I'll be cutting off panicles of flowers so I'm hoping to train it along the wall, over the head of Duchesse de Brabant, which however is also trying to outgrow its spot. So far I'm not impressed with DdB, whose flowers are not happy, even in this spot that gets less than half a day of morning sun. It's amazing to me how little sun these two roses need, along with their neighbor, Aloha, to keep putting out new blooms.

Good morning, Ingrid. Just a quick note, as I'm not feeling well today. The Dahlia info is in the post titled " Testing my phone with pictures ". You would need to protect from critters, but they stay in the ground year round here. That makes them very simple. Here's another example. Lisa

Ingrid, thanks as always for sharing your beautiful garden with us. No easy feat in this heat. And Lisa, I hope that you feel better soon!

Sunny, you are an artist with words! I happen to know what terroir means and appreciate your applying it to my garden and surroundings. What a poetic description, I'll have to sternly tell my garden to live up to it.

Thank you lavender, you're always so generous with your praise.

Lisa, please get better soon. This weather doesn't help. So sweet of you to go to the trouble of taking that wonderful picture. Those are my colors! I like how many varying shapes dahlias have. I'll be sure to look at the other thread. Take it easy today.