WOW how beautiful. They really brighten that misty day!

Fresh mulch, misty weather--it must be what hostas dream of!
I like the way you have the impatience planted, they remind me of landscape lights. Lovely pictures

Your walkway is stunning. Not just the hostas, but the japanese maple and the chamaecyparus (yellow conifer) are to die for as well! I'm blown away.

Lainey

So very pretty - thanks for sharing those great photos!

Alexa

Very nice! I would love to come home to a walkway like that.
Mary

Excellent, I've talked about the ladies garden I visited 20 years ago, small and a perfect jewel that inspired me. This inspires me once again, every facet cut perfectly with no flaws.

Wish I had your neat gene?

Wow fantastic gardens. Everything looks perfect! Your photos give me great motivation and inspiration for the future. Thanks for sharing the wonderful pictures. Dan

Thank you folks ... I wish it were perfect but I made a sad discovery with Striptease yesterday ... see post. Wayne

super.. stunning...

WAY TO MUCH LAWN LEFT .... GET RID OF IT.. AND GROW MORE HOSTA....

ken

very nice

Very nice,Wayne! I will trade you your misty day for mine. 90 degree weather already,and no sign of rain anywhere! We are already into the dog days of summer! Phil

We have had awesome growing weather here in southern Ontario this year. It's amazing that some tulips are still blooming in June! But alas, the 90 degree weather is arriving here tomorrow so we are opening the pool starting today.

Gorgeous pictures! You have a real knack at garden design as well. Everything is beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

Spectacular!!! Beautiful design and gorgeous specimens.
~Bunnycat

Beautiful pictures! I love the mood especially in the last one looking across the street. I read all about your Striptease and looked at the pictures. I had to immediately go outside (in the rain, all we've had it seems is rain, rain, rain.) to check mine out. It seems ok thank goodness. The thought that it can lurk for so many years is truly frightening. McT

Oh my goodness, Wayne! Perfection!!!!

Wow --

Is that gorgeous thing to the left of your Japanese maple Sagae?

These look absolutely perfect, as single plants and in your lovely combinations.

(((misty sigh)))

Absolute perfection!You have a great design gene. I always said I belong in Canada! I'm from a town 20 miles south of Winnipeg (in Minnesota) and the angle of the sun is just perfect for hostas at your latitude. Your pics are gorgeous - I'd take a misty day and that walkway over the heat and humidity (and tornadoes) of Illinois ANY DAY!

Westy

Wow! How did I miss these pictures for 3 days? They're absolutely beautiful! Sympathy on your Striptease . . . so sad.

I just had to look at them again. Saved to file! (I show these to DH so he 'gets it'). And I'm wondering what material you have between the walkway stones? I have a similar walkway and we couldn't use cement because of our frozen winters and I assume yours are just as bad over there. Is it something expandable, flexible?

Westy

I am going to print this photos and show them to my wife who thinks my attraction to hosta is a little strange :-)

Wayne, your photos are simply gorgeous. Sooo much so that I had to come out of just lurking to express my appreciation to you for sharing. I love the crimson of the Japanese maples against all the beautiful hosta foliage. Your walkway looks so inviting leading right up to the front door but the gardens are so beautiful I think I'd want to stay outside and enjoy the view and that side path looks very enticing........what's around the corner??? Wonderful design and pics. Thanks.

June

Wow- These photos are simply beautiful! What an inspiration! What are those cute pink flowers on the edge of the beds?

Someone recently made a comment about Wayne's garden thread from the past. What a pleasant surprise to find it being reposted. Those gardens took my breath away--I want to do that to my front yard--the problem being that I have full sun, and we seldom get that lovely mist that so sets the hosta off. Nor do we have Japanese maples. So I must be content with viewing others' gardens. Wayne you are a wonderful Hosta planter and grower. Mary

hi yah waynet!! send some of that mist my way so my yard can look ass GREAT as yours!!! and the Sagae? looks GREAT!!!

great shots!!

Paul

UH....I think that I may have put too many S's in one of those words!!

Paul

oops sorry!!

Paul,
I thought you were using some special saying! LOL ;)
Patty

WOW! Takes my breath away! I want to live across the street so I can see this beautiful garden everyday!

I've been trying to find this post--thank you so much for bumping it!!! I hope to do something like that near my front sidewalk--it is absolutely gorgeous!!!

Im back again to look. Is there some way you could put these pics in the gallery? They belong there so over the long cold winter we can enjoy these.

Sigh, I wish I had that neat gene too. Everything looks fabulous, even the lawn. So lush a vibrant.

If you're out there Wayne, let us know how your gardens held up this year.

I think I missed this post first time around. Your garden is lovely, Wayne. It looks like it should be on the cover of a magazine. Truly lovely.

IM BACK FOR ANOTHER LOOK! WAYNES WORLD-EXCELLENT!

Hi All!!!
Playinmud, here I am. I'm here frequently to read and enjoy all the discussions and photos and I thank you all for the lovely comments. It is three months to the day since that post and the time has flown by. After spending the last year at teacher's college (D'Youville in Buffalo) I've been very busy trying to start a new career and land my first ever job as a science and math teacher (at the age of 53!). Started on a one year contract last week in Burlington ON and it is wonderfully crazy!

That garden is very big and bushy now and despite multiple hailstorms and a million slugs, still looks pretty good from a distance. Several are over 5ft across (Paul's Glory, Sun Power, Regal Splendor) and Sagae is 6ft+. I will get some new pic's posted this weekend if the weather is decent for photography.

Pchicago, the dark pink New Guinea (Sunshine) Impatiens do add some nice colour without overpowering the hostas.

You should be able to left click on any image to get to Photobucket, then click on My Albums to view a whole whack of our other hosta pic's that I posted over the winter. Please let me know if it does not work.

That's all for now ... back to curriculum/lesson planning and some Monday Night Football. Wayne

Hi Wayne,

I just tried to go to your Photobucket album and a password is needed. I checked my Photobucket settings and one of the settings is private or public. You can chose public but add a quest password apparently if you don't want it fully public. Would love to see me of your pics.

Patty (From Ont as well)

Thanks for the feedback Patty. I changed the setting. Can you see all the pic's now? Wayne

Yes, you did it. Thanks Wayne! Lovely peaceful setting and gorgeous gardens!

Patty

Whew! I just reread my previous post and I obviously had a few typos in less than two full lines....YIKES!