I will be taking the West side of my house and finishing the bed there. I had to raise the level of the dirt in the fall since there was an immediate drop off of dirt from the foundation. I put in a cinder block wall one row high and put stone veneer on it to make it look acceptable (HOA here). Now, after giving all winter for the dirt to settle and compact I will sod the area and build the bed that will go against the house. This bed already has a weeping evergreen at each corner of the house. I also have some Indian Hawthorne there. I will add: Mystic Beauty Scepter d'Isle and Amadeus Here is the side I will be fixing. I think you can appreciate how steep this side is. Now it will be more leveled and terraced. I ran out of good weather in the fall but hope to have this done the first good warm weekend we have. Ronda

Ok, Guys....I make about four trips down home a year, and this is the first time I forgot my camera. I do have some photos from about last March and I'll try to load them up. Me and computers are not too compatible, but I'll try. I get a little more respect after I swung the 'puter into the wall by it's cord. Is it normal to have such fat pups? These are the black bamboo aren't they? I've never seem them before. jim Seems I don't know how to send the pics. Anyone know?

I got a sample of the Silver Fox after seeing this and the Brooklyn Limestone pictures. When I painted it, it looked perfect. Almost.............got in the car to go buy. But if there's anything I've learned from my mistakes, it's to start with chips, move on to the samples of your true love favorites, put the sample in two places, a low-light and a good light, let dry, then, come back The next day and decide. Good thing I waited. Silver Fox has the right depth I'm looking for, looks good in many of the photos I've seen, and could certainly be perceived as warm. But in my space, there is just that trace of purple that takes it out of the running. And I have some new natural color drapes that I am definitely using---not enough of the right kind of contrast with the drape fabric. Jock......... you painted it and loved it but do you have pictures of it for us??? Red

Well, after all this time and all these samples, I think I may have finally decided. Believe it or not, the color I like is the same exact color that's been on my bedroom walls for several years now - SW Svelte Sage. Svelte looks like a neutral green on my bedroom walls, but somehow in the living room, it looks like the color I've been envisioning all along - a muted, sophisticated aqua or sea green. I don't see hardly any blue in the chip, but if there's any blue whatsoever in a color, my living room pulls it out like a vaccuum. I kind of wish the color was a tad bit lighter, but I tried Grassland, the lighter chip on the same strip, and thought it was too light. I also find it amazing how much the color can change. I did a big sample wall without bothering to go all the way to the ceiling and baseboards yesterday. I came back today and finished the edges, and the color looks significantly different just from getting rid of the tan that was still peeking out at the edges. Before I totally commit, I think I'll go buy a quart in the actual paint I plan to use. I was going to try to go with Aura, but since this is a SW paint, and SW is right down the street from me, I thought I'd go with Duration, or Harmony. I want to use a matte finish and still have something that can be wiped off. Any experience with SW's high end paints? I'll post some pics later this evening for your opinions.