Great combinations of colors! Love the ferns and Sweet Woodruff. Your Sleeping Beauty is exceptional! Awesome color on the Blue Ivory! Ohhhh.... I could go on and on!

Is that Lady's Mantle (Alchemilla) in front of the rock?

Wow! Your garden is so pretty!! These pictures could be from a high-tone garden magazine. Just lovely!

What's that one just to the right of the sleeping beauty in the front? The colour are very close to the little one here (it's still young though, so quite small compared to that one...)

Just lovely, Paul! Your reward for enduring a brutal old-fashioned Minnesota winter!

Nice Paul. I just bought Journey's End and planted it last weekend. I can't wait for it to grow up.

Beverly

Whats the groundcover in that group with journeys end?

Love the garden,Paul! It reminds me a lot of mine,with all the color combinations. The only thing is,mine has more slanted ground. Nice job combining all the other companion plants. Phil

Love it, Paul! I wonder why yours looks great and I feel mine just looks crowed? How far do you let them go in touching or filling in gaps before you move something or divide it (if you do)

I also see you also use one of my favorite shade plants with the hosta, a miniature Bleeding Heart!

chris

Thanks all for the comments.

Gesila - yes, that is Lady's Mantle. Normally it gets nipped by the rabbits -- but we have a fox around this year and I've only seen one rabbit. Maybe it'll get a chance to bloom this year.

Mary - it's starting to fill in nicely. I'm a little over planted, so a couple of hosta will need to be relocated.

on_greenthumb, the chartreuse/yellow one is Daybreak - still waiting to see if it can hold it's own between Striptease and Sleeping Beauty, both have grown really well. May have to move to give it more space.

pagrdnr - Sweet Woodruff - 1 small pot is all you need - I swear it spreads during the winter under the snow.

Phil - 2/3 of my lot is wooded, and my garden are mostly designed to feel like paths thru the woods.

Paul

Chris, you're like me -- aren't we all a bit too critical of our own gardens. I like them just touching or a bit more, else filling between with other types of plants. I try to leave room based upon final size - but hey it doesn't always work. In this garden I purposely put in some small hosta to fill gaps figuring I'd have to move them in a few years as the Mediums and Larges filled out. Figured the sun would give 'em a head start before being moved. Split some to fill out gardens when first starting - but now the goal is mature plants, so haven't split any in 3-4 years.

Paul

Just glorious, Paul!! I love how you put them together and all the extra's around them.

btw--that 'Cutting Edge' will swallow that side of the path, before too long! Mine is in a whiskey barrel,
which probably means it could be even larger than it is and it's really big! I'll try to snap a pic. later!

Again, your gardens are so beautifully put together!

Lovely gardens, really put together well with your combination choices.
Cher

Very, very nice! You have some real beauties there, Paul.

Paul -

Thank you for posting your pics - I always enjoy seeing what I hope my gardens will look like some day.

Chuck

Thanks all again for the nice comments. Glad to share.

hey_j, Hostapedia lists Cutting Edge as 34" wide - what do you think?

Paul

Well, Paul--cornered hubby to help me photograph mine with a measurement of approximately 47" from longest tip to longest tip:

Hope you can see the closeup number!

I don't know if I did this correctly but hubby held up the leaf on the left to start the measurement from and I did the same on the other end!
Of course he had to drop his leaf to take the pic.--whatever--it's big!

Sorry about the holes--hail damage that I'm thankful was not worse than what I have! I have friends fairly nearby (5 miles and less) that had
their hosta completely smashed to the ground, with not a leaf or petiole left attached! A hosta summer lost for them--so sad, but so thankful
it was not a whole lot worse for them and us all in our area, as it was in other states!!! The hosta WILL return, but loss lives, of course...!

Thanks for the pics - do you suppose I could have visitors jump over.... So I guess a year or two and then time to move it. I should have problems like this with all my hostas.

Paul

Hmmmm, "visitors jumping over"--well, at their own risk, I suppose--it IS a 'Cutting Edge'! :)