I absolutely love your garden. I agree--roses look much better when not alone. Besides, you have more of a progression of different things to enjoy and look forward to. I hope to see more of your garden as time goes on.

Your garden is so pretty and relaxing looking. I want to sit in that swing, play with your dog and enjoy the garden with maybe some iced tea.

Nice to have trees beyond your fence! Helps the look of a city garden immensely. Isn't your redbud lovely!!!

Nice photos! Those bleeding hearts are gorgeous!

Wow, so beautiful and romantic! The bleeding heart looks so beautiful, delicate, touching and sweet. I think i will grow it in my shade garden because it is so charming and draws me with its uniqueness. Forget me nots, I like as flowers but they disappear so quickly without a trace...I do not know if they are worth trying because it is so disappinting to see they bloom and disappear in no time in the hot weather.

What a charming garden and my border collie Eluane says hi to your sheltie too! Your new Chicago Peace is very charming and big, big blooms! coool!

Very nice garden! :-) It's coming to life!

Thank you Kathy, pelicanhead, irisgal, beth and jim :D

bgrose, pls plant Gold Heart variety, I swear the light chartreuse-golden foliage just makes any shady corner gleam! Totally worth the extra price compared to regular bleeding hearts! I agree about the forget me nots but it is hard for me to find enough true blue flowers I love so I appreciate their brief blooming time before the blue irises kick in :D

Serena: Thank you, Hunnybunny sends a big Woof to Miss Eluane. Maybe they should have a play date :D I always look forward to seeing Eluane in your garden pics! I was pleasantly surprised to notice Chicago Peace's fragrance. It's not super strong but it was nice and fruity.

ok I am going to the shop to look for bleeding hearts. Thanks for the advice!

I could not find bleeding hearts in the shop...it is a pity. Yours look so good...

Hi bgrose, this site is selling them for a nice price. http://www.munchkinnursery.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=54

Or else, you could buy from http://www.bhg.com/garden-store/flowers-plants/perennials/other-perennials/gold-heart-bleeding-heart.html

or

http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/27724-product.html but they are charging more.

Your garden is lovely-----I also like an assortment of plants----from the earliest to the latest---there is always something to enjoy while waiting for the roses to bloom----LOVE the picture of the Bleeding Heart---

Thanks for the nice tour of your garden---

Florence

Lovemysheltie, I can tell that Eluane would love your Hunnybunny! You can actually tell a lot about a dog by their photos and videos, and Hunnybunny seems a TOTAL SWEETHEART! I have a baby band Climbing Oklahoma that was given to me as a gift! I hope it will end up looking as lovely as your Oklahoma bloom. I actually was going to write far sooner at our gallery but was delayed. I have a special friend who lives outside of Chicago named Tim Dyer. Yesterday he had emergency surgery (originally it was scheduled for this coming Monday) because his detached retina which he had undergone surgery for in August 2010 reflared up, but it struck far sooner and he lost TOTAL VISION in that eye. Tim Dyer is a wonderful friend and helped me train Eluane in agility through email, videos, online advice, telephone calls, texting. He is an AKC agility champion handler with brilliant dogs. It was devastating news, and I was busy for the last few days trying to post to all our friends in the U.K. (we both belong to the Agility Addicts forum in the England). Yesterday and today, Time emailed me. The retina has been reattached and he can see light and dark and that's pretty much it, so everyone has been praying real hard for him! but at least it's not that former total blindness and now he can see the outlines of his doctor's hand about 3" from his face. Jim1961 and his wife Sue have been total sweethearts, trying to help me pray! You being a dog lover like me and being from Chicago, always makes me think of us being "neighbors" because of Tim, lol!

Again, so lovely with your garden, and wished my garden was as well-balanced as yours. I uprooted all my non-honeybee attracting perennials but at the price of weeds cropping everywhere and itsy bitsy baby "bee perennials" taking their sweet time not! filling out those bare spaces, haha!

@lovemysheltie

Thank you for the links, I will check the sites you referred me to.

@ Serena
I hope you friend is fine.

Wow - your anenome is very striking. I would love to have that in my garden. I don't think I've ever seen it here - not even as an annual.

Bleeding Hearts are so amazing. LIke a beautiful freak of nature to look like that. My grandmother had them so they bring back nice memories.

Your Chicago Peace bloom is HUGE!!!! So pretty!!

Thanks for showing us your garden!!

carol