Just lovely! I know you must be enjoying your garden so much! Thanks for sharing pictures....:)
Donna

Mike, What a lovely yard. Very inviting approach to your porch.I love how you used your pathways with plantings on both sides. Great use of repetition~it ties things together!

Here's some more round the yard shots I took this morning

A nice morning shower (man made, of course):

Yellows and Purples:

Strawberries and Guara:

Pink and Red Fairy roses in high gear:

The hedge row of Fairy Roses have been stopping traffic in the neighborhood for a few days now. This year the faries put on their spring show several weeks late and most every other rose has finished its flush. Perhaps that's why the fairies stand out? Dunno.

The Debutante Achilleas I started from seed last year have also sprung up rather majestically this year. The bed along the roadside atrracts butterflies and the neighborhood kids. Fortunately, there's plenty for all:

Here's a closeup of the debutante:

I don't have a bunch of these, but the Double Delight Rose certainly is a nice specimen for the vase

Okay so now you are making want to plant some Debutante Achilleas and I am supposed to stop buying and finsih planting what I have. Your yard looks great.

Kathy,

LOL!! How true. I've been "clearing out my greenhouse" since early March. I've given away billions of plants - well, it FEELS like billions -- and I've planted another billion or two. Everytime I have a "vacancy" on a bench, I manage to replenish it.

I have a flock of different Achillea including Paprika, Summer Pastel, Moonshine, Apple Blossoms, Anthe, Terra Cotta, Pearl, Walter Funke, but the Debtante is performing the best. I saw a new kind the other day called Summer Berries and, uh, well . . . I will NOT buy more seeds . . .I will NOT buy more seeds . . .

Oh, and not that I'm evil or anything, but Krazy Keith's currently has the Debutante for $2.95

Enjoy.

Here is a link that might be useful: Debutante at Krazy Keith's

BEAUTIFUL. I love it. Do you spray your roses? How is the Fairy for disease? It all looks fantastic.

I missed this post before somehow, but everything looks just gorgeous!

I love the lambs ear growing in front of the fairy roses. It really sets them off! Is that a blue salvia growing in between your Stella's? Great color combination.

GOATSTER:

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, I do spray my roses. I'm not religious about it, though, and tend to wait too long between spraying. The fairy roses you see in the picture are two different kinds. One is red and one is pink, but the difference goes further than that.

The pink's are hardy, very Blackspot resistant, have a tight shrubing habit with small, closely spaced leaves. They are almost carefree for me as they even self clean their own buds. I don't trim the back in the spring, either, as I find they spread neatly in a nice tight mound.

The reds are less hardy and much more prone to BS. Not as bad as a hybrid T, but if left unsprayed they will defoiliate. I also have to keep them clipped as they tend to grow open and leggy if not given a trim from time to time.

Aside from BS, they are both very resistant to all the other rose plaguing diseases like powdery mildew, rust, etc.

WILDFLOWER:
Thank you as well for the kind words.

Those little lamb's ear came from clump cuts on the other side of the driveway. No kidding, I thinned out some clusters and literally threw the pieces under the fairy roses (thinking they'd die and eventually compost.) I suppose that proves mother nature is a much better landscaper than I :)

You are correct, those are "May Night" Salvia. I had soeme "blue Hill" salvia and several others at one time, but they just couldn't hang like the May Night and eventually died off.

EVIL, EVIL, Woman! I already have about 5 things just waiting in my Krazy Keith's shopping cart so now I added another. I can't believe how much nicer that debutante looks in your yard than in their photo. I passed it right over when I looked before.

Funny I just planted May Night's next to my Stela's. And I have been trying to decide where to move all my lambs ear since it is looking shabby due to being too wet in the winter/spring where it is. I think I may move it in front of my Nearly Wild roses for a similar effect. Now I jsut ahve to figure out what to replace it with in it's original spot. Any ideas-- it is along a walkway in front of some Indian Summer Rudbeckia? (behind that are Indian Hawthornes)

I so love when people post photos. I get so many ideas from them.

Okay sorry "Mike" I just looked at your "My page" and realized you are an "EVIL, EVIL Man!" So sorry.

Kathy,

You might want to add an Iceplant(Delosperma) or two to your list.

Oh, yeah, I am an evil man, aren't I?

Here is a link that might be useful: Delosperma deal

Okay Mike I already have 2 of the one in your picture (one from GGG at a trade a couple of years ago) as well as a new one that I purchased this year with yellow flowers 9hasn't bloomed yet,) but I don't have that slamon one in your link, good thing I didn't check out yet at Krazy Keith's. Oh well it is a new credit card billing cycle anyway. Sigh.

Mike I appreciate your information on the Fairy rose. I keep seeing this pink rose on my way to Lagrange and I think it is the pink Fairy rose. It is on the side of the road in someone's yard. It looks like a casket spray in shape. It is just full of blooms and has been for a while now. The blooms are small but just SO many. I wonder how it would do in some shade. Not total shade but filtered light. I am thinking that would look great along my drive. I have a long drive in between two pastures within an old pecan orchard. Anyway, thanks again for sharing. Very pretty.

Hey goatster,

Karzy Keith's has the fairy on sale for about six bucks. At that price, it won't set you back much to pick one up and give it a try. I have actually held bareroot fairies in a number 3 wash tub full of water for more than two weeks. They sprouted and lived just fine. Again, they are both tough and beautiful.

Goodness what beautiful pictures! I'm going to have to check out that site everyone keeps talking about. I've also got to find a McCarty Rose & Cherry Parfait for my garden though I don't know where I'd put more roses (I think I've got somewhere around 20 so far ekk!)

Mike, I think Krazy Keith is gonna have to start paying you a commision. ;)

Kathy, I figure if I send enough people there they'll add more variety. One can only hope, ya' know.

Okay Mike, I am going to submit my order tomorrow so be sure to tell me if I need anything else. ;)

I added the yarrow and 2 new iceplants thanks to you. Did you see the cool salmon iceplant and the really purple looking one? I bought a yellow one this year somewhere can't wait to see it bloom. Not sure why but I really like having the same plant in different colors. (I used to be the same way with shoes, but now all I seem to wear are gardening clogs.)

Here is a link that might be useful: Delosperma Mesa Verde

btw I found that Delosperma Mesa Verde today at Lowes!

Hey Kathy,

I ordered some of the mesa verdes a while back and have them growing in containers as well. Also, the cooperi is a nice shade of solid purple that I have and that's probably what you're talking about.

The Starburst are definatley prolific and seem to pop up everywhere without being invasive. Hope the others are the same.

Guess I'm like you with the same plant/different color thing. Never been that way about shoes, though, just roses . . .

Hey Mike,

Did you purchase your Double Delight Rose in Georgia and if so, what nursery and where are they located. I haven't seen this variety down here in south Louisiana. I would like to give it a try down here. May be a good excuse to go back to God's Country (Georgia) to purchase it from a Georgia nursery.

James
Baton Rouge, LA

I keep coming back and looking at these gorgeous pictures! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
Oh, and, I went to Krazy Keith's and bought myself an anniversary gift or two, or three. Okay okay, 10 or so! I just had to get some of that Debutante, and found some other stuff while I was there. No more plants this year Karen. Repeat, repeat, repeat. No more! Ha Ha!!

Oh your neighbors must be SO jealous...I know I am!

I need to ask what the material you use for bedding/mulch is? It is lovely...is it something that is used mostly down south?

Thank you for sharing miss Cherry Parfait! This magnificent bloom has captured my heart!! I am not a huge rose fan, but this delightful eye-pleaser has won over my artistic soul. I would love to grow such a special plant with spectacular color that really overwhelms me!!!
Thanks again, for sharing the natural beauty of all your flowers.

Hotflats, that is pinestraw and it is a commonly used mulch in the south.

Thanks...I must get me some...the mulch we use here is just TACKY!

Your garden is beautiful!! However, that isn't Double Delight. Maybe Scentimental. Not sure. Love those lily pictures! Do you have any more photos to post?? Please?

You are correct GeorgiaGirl. That is Scentimental. Wrong label, right rose.

Oh, and here's a picture of my Gardener:

Oh sooooooo cute. Can come and garden at my house ANYTIME!!!

Georgiagirl, the little one has a special tast bud for dirt. I REALLY have to watch him when he goes out with me or he'll be using his trowel as a spoon -- if you know what I mean . .

Anyway, here's more pics:

The flowers displayed on this page left me breathless. Mcrean1's yard is spectacular (as is her front porch). Those roses on this page are to die for! Simply amazing!

That bucket of iceplants is so beautiful...can anyone tell me more about them? Are they an annual or a perennial? For how long do they bloom? Will they survive a cold climate where the temperature drops to forty below zero?

It is perennial. I don't know how well it would do in Canada. It's only listed to zone 5.

Here is a link that might be useful: Delosperma