Your brug blooms and everything else look very nice! I also like the vacation pics.
Shawn

Great pics! What is your brug growing in? It almost looks like sand.
Karyn

Hong, your plants are so beautiful! What vine is the 4th picture with white double/triple flowers? What is that yellow/orangy brug (single flower picture)? I love all your roses and hollyhocks. Your crape myrtle looks wonderful!

Karyn, the soil in are kind of sandy in that corner of the yard, I'm not sure why, but 10feet from there the soil are somewhat claydy!
eloise_ca, the vines is a climatis, call duchess of edingburg. the brug is vixen.

Enjoyed your beautiful flowers. Mine are half dead from lack of rain and even watering twice a day isn't helping.
Oh well it's great to see everyone's gorgeous pretties.

Jan

Beautiful pics Hong. I would love to go to Normandy!

Kristy, Normandy is beautiful because it so old. Most of the French there are speaking English, and the American Cemetary are belong to United State, you will see american flags everywhere in that region, I think that is so cool.

Can you send me some full size pics of that castle? I have always wanted to see one!

Hong! Thank You for all of the wonderful photo's!! Your flowers look beautiful and I sure wish I was with you on Holiday!!! LOL
Kylie

Very nice photos, I really love that pink daylily too.

Kristy, check your email :)

Super Nice!! I tried to make the castle bigger to. LOL

Great pictures!
That is a cool looking castle!
Karen

Nothing in my email. Copy and paste my email address into your send to spot. It might not go through Garden web.

try this link:

http://snowqueen33.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!A47E6CC0AEDD59EA!1244/

the pink daylily called "paper dragon", I had send Karyn one of the fan, I hope it bloom for her.
picture 8 is a brunera jack frost
picture 9 is chinese wild ginger, it has brow looking flower.
the pict 18, beleive it or not, it's a basil. it turn green in the sun, change back dark purple in shade, way cool :)

Thanks hong, I thought it was a clematis by the leaves, but wasn't too sure. Vixen is beautiful.

Nice, You're in Bakersfield/Southern San Joaquin Valley right? How do you get Peonies to bloom?! I've tried three years in a row with different peonies and they never bloom. They keep coming up in the spring but they never bloom.

central_cali369,

mine is in morning sun evening shade, it is a old bush, it's about six yrs old plant. I hardly do anything for it, I feed it whenever I feed my brugs. one thing funny about peony is if you planted it deeper than one inch below the soil line, it won't bloom. It like cow manure, I feed mine before the bud get big.

Hong, your flowers are lovely, thanks for sharing!!! Your vacation looked fun too!

Mary

Hong, your gardens look so lush and lovely! Great job! Looks like your vacation in Normandy was spectacular!

Theresa

Wonderful Hong, you obviously have a green thumb.

I see a few plants for trading Hehehe.

your lisianthus are great. What zone are you in? and what are the pompom-like yellow flowers below the nasturtiums?

Nice hollyhocks and I want those green variagated leaf low plants - what are they? (pictures 10 and 11)

Barry,
I am in zone 9, bakersfield california... as close to hell as it get ;). I have hard time keeping thing from wilting!
# 10 picture is Brunera jack frost, it is dying! i am going to move it to diffrent location today and see if it will come back.
#11 is chinese wild ginger, it very slow growing plant, but it doing fine in this heat. I have to water it twice a day every day.I have a small one that are rooted, if you like it will be yours in fall (hint, hint)

the yellow flower below the nasturtium are nunranculus, it bloom in early spring. that is an old picture. they are fun to grow and easy. I plant them every year, some come back some don't if the corm get to wet in dormant season it will rot. sometime i dig them up and stored them, but most of the time I just buy them when the store offer them. they everywhere in homedepot in late fall.