Beautiful photos and beautiful plants! Show us some more!
Sybil

Love the larkspur! Always glad to see pics of your gardens.

I love your gardens. Just the kind of effect I hope to achieve one day. Masses of tall perennials, with colourful blooms. I have failed for the third time this year WSing larkspur, but I'll keep trying - they're so beautiful. What is the yellow bloom in the last pic?
Northerner.

Northener - St. John's Wort in half bloom. It's a shame to post my shades now because the blooms were in the spring and its really looked great. So, now all you see is foliage with a few blooms. Not that it's bad right now, but a month ago it was a show!

Northener, once you get those larkspur going it's re-seeding central. Keep trying. I will have a seed offering later this summer.

What pretyy gardens. And what a pretty echinacea tucked in there next to those yellow coneflowers!

Lynda

Very nice, inspiring pictures, Bakemom! That wood betony sounds interesting, I did a google search on it, and it looks like a good candidate for my native shade bed. Did you winter sow it? Is that cherry bells campanula planted around it too? Is that the one that can be an aggressive spreader?

And what are the spiky white flowers?

Very pretty.

Karen

Great quality pics of your great quality gardens!!!!!!!! Are you liking the camara? My husband felt it "felt" too small at first, and he thought the pics would be shakey but they weren't.

I have figure out (AGAIN) how to get my garden pics over here from Picasa software.

bakemom - Gorgeous gardens! Really well put together and so much interest.

I did recognize Stachy's Hummelos - but you didn't wintersow them, right? I bought four of them and I love their foliage and purple flowers.

Love your photos.

Carrie

The wood betony is both divided and wintersown.

what is the plant with the big foilage and the white flowers in the last pic? that is very beautiful!! actually they all are very beautiful!! but i kinda love that one alot! for the shade, heck, i think i wanta get seeds for all of them. i think i have a bed in mind, one for each of them, sun and one for the shade, now that i think of it!! LOL hmmmmm.....i may be thinking to much!!! LOL ~Medo

I love your gardens! Which St John's Wort is that? I think there are a few kinds. I want a clump like that!

Which Powershot did you get? I have the S50, which is the barely pocket-size camera. I love it, I can do all-manual stuff with it when I want to.

The white flowers are from the shrub bottlebrush buckeye.

I don't know which St. John's wort it is.

Powershot? Don't know the model number (i'm at work), but it cost me 150 at Staples. It's small and has manual and automatic features.

Bakemom - very pretty pictures - I love the buckeye and have thought about getting a couple for my woodland gardens - can they be started from seed??????......

Lynne

I have tried to sow bottlebrush buckeye with no luck.

Very nice! I'm so happy for us that you now have working camera.