Lovely, Sherry. I know your garden gives you a lot of joy, thanks for sharing it. Happy 4th to you, Gean

Sherry, that slide show is so beautiful! I couldn't believe the sand though. Everything seems to be growing so beautifully, and your Le Vesuve is gorgeous. Mine are all "resting". I love the day lilies and the colors you've chosen are gorgeous. Makes my gold ones look garish and cheap. Do these colored ones rebloom for you?

Thanks for the great show.

Ingrid

Thanks, Gean. My garden gives me a lot of joy and sweat or sweat and joy. :))

Ingrid, believe it! When the rain pours off the roof edge, all amendments seemingly disappear unless I have a thick mulch of something like pine straw and/or hay that mats. Bark chips just get pushed away. I always hated gold until I accidently got some orangey gold daylilies. Boy, do they pop!!! And now I like them but I haven't bought anymore. Since I educated myself about daylilies last fall, they're all reblooming - or rather they're supposed to - and have different bloom times. I'm looking forward to having daylilies bloom in September and October and... I did try to coordinate the colors of the daylilies with the roses, but some of the photos online weren't exactly accurate. Like red has actually turned out to be rust or maybe rose, and blueberry was this sick mauve color. But that was just the first few flowers. Now it's just mauve.

Sherry

Lovely garden Sherry, your La Vesuve looks lovely! I can imagine how difficult it is to keep it all up gardening on sand, although on a bright side, at least your soil does not turn into a concrete before the rain. :D I liked caladiums in your photos, lovely leaves!

Beautiful Sherry. I always take shots in overcast. I love your hostas too.

Sherry---what a delightful garden----You've done an amazing job

Florence

Oooh, everything is gorgeous. Vesuve is a stunner. I have a small one but keep pinching all the buds off for it's own good.

And wonderful daylilies! I'm amazed that yours are still blooming this late in the season. I have only a bloom here and there now but most are dormant due to lack of rain. I took pity and fertilized them to give them hope of surviving until next spring. I love your choice of colors since I favor the pink and peaches too.
Although some cranberry sneaks in also.

Thanks for the show.

Denise

Thanks for posting the great pictures, Sherry. I do enjoy looking at others' gardens, and yours is looking lovely. Your Le Vesuve is certainly a beauty! Don't you just love Borderer also? I have one growing in a pot, too.
How long have you had the Limelight hydrangea? I admired one at a nearby nursery recently, but noticed the tag said for up to heat zone 8 and I live in a heat zone 9. On the other hand, I successfully grow clematis and japanese maples, even though many would say they couldn't grow in my climate. Sometimes one just needs to experiment. I assume that you are also a heat zone 9? Your Limelight is certainly looking very pretty.
I am surprised that you still have so many daylilies blooming. I only have a couple that are still blooming.
Thanks again for the tour.
Kathy

Elemire, I can see how gardening in cement would be difficult. :)) We all have our negatives, I suppose. At least my plants will never get waterlogged!

Pam, sadly, I don't have any hostas. They mostly don't like it here and act like annuals - in other words die or get eaten. Maybe you mean the caladiums. The big green & cream leaves??

Thank you, Florence. I'm glad you like them.

Denise & Kathy, I learned that different daylily cultivars bloom at different times of the year: Early Early, Early, Early Mid, Mid, Late Summer and Very Late. The first few years I always bought the big box of bulbs at Sam's Club. Well, it turned out that they were all once blooming, sometimes dormant and always earlier blooming so mine were always done by June. When I heard about a big sale last October (see link), I took a crash course in daylilies on their website which has a pretty extensive online catalog and bought lots and lots, concentrating on later blooming varieties and only evergreen or semi-evergreen. The leaves stay on the evergreen ones all winter whereas the leaves on the semi-ev can disappear. Being in Georgia, I figured this vendor was closer to my climate conditions. They turned out to be a very good vendor, and the fans were large and healthy and made large plants!

My Limelight is in its third or fourth year. I bought it locally not knowing the heat zone requirement. So I put it in total shade, and it does fine, but MUCH better with daily watering. The first two years I had no leaves until the end of May!! Now I'm sure that was due to lack of water because this year it started leafing out in March. They're in a very dry bed with trees that suck up every drop of water. I also have a Winky Pinky in there that is just starting to bloom. It will be red and white, is Zone 9, and they say it will take full sun, but all my full sun is occupied with roses. This is the 3rd year for it. It was a tiny slip when I bought it online.

Sherry

Here is a link that might be useful: Shaw's Sunshine Gardens

Sherry - your garden is beautiful. I especially love your shade garden. So cool and calming. Everything looks so lush and lovely. Thanks for sharing.

A beautiful slideshow. Thank you! I enjoyed seeing it.

Though I think your 'Le Vesuve' is still a little baby plant. Wait until it really gets going.

Yeah, like a baby elephant!

your La Vesuve looks amazing! wow!