Pauline:

I have visited parks that don't have a thing on your amazing yard. My day today was rather challenging but looking at your roses made it better. Thanks for sharing those.

Kate

Thank you for a look at PNW magic.

ONE WORD! GORGEOUS!Thanks for posting. I remember yours from last year and it is just stunning. April

Simply Amazing! You work very hard on this yard! It is beautiful!

Absolutely wonderful! You're a great gardener!

Sherry

Awesome Pauline, wow, your rose garden and beds are drop dead gorgeous. If ever I can travel again and make it as far as you live, I would love to see your gardens in person!! Look at all that beautiful color, color me envious:)
Leslie

Your hard work surely does show through your lovely garden. Your roses look so stunning! Thank you.

Aw shucks, you guys! I am glad you like them and appreciate your kind comments so much. We are usually so critcal of our own gardens and there is still lots to be done. Despite how it looks, we garden in very poor conditions. We carved our property and garden out of a forest, so the garden literally was a virgin. We had, still have, lots of springs which keep part of our lawn miserably sodden. My husband spent many of hours and labour working on the drainage issue to no avail just to find that they will spring up somewhere else. We also had a lot of blue clay, so the drainage is pretty poor in parts. Most of our beds are raised and that helps. But I am hoping in the future for us to work on getting a decent lawn, lots more drainage and re-levelling etc, as lots of areas have sunk badly. We are pretty happy with it, though, we would like to have more sun-light, we have enormous cedar trees, hence the roses seem to get tall, everything does, and pretty well everything needs staking -a task I could do without, but necessary. I still feel our home is new cos we built it ourselves, and it took a long time with the 1980s recession. We are still very amazed though, how it has evolved. We love the privacy, yet we are so close to everything and three short blocks to the ocean.

Leslie, come on down!!
Thanks all again!
Pauline - Vancouver Island

Thanks again everyone, your kind comments are greatly appreciated.

Judy, thank you, that was so sweet of you to say that. The rose your are talking about is St. Patrick - a lovely HT. Of course it is washed out looking on this picture. Judy I am not quite sure which path you are talking about. Is it the one that goes through the new bed, leading to the shade garden. If so, that path goes through and behind the shade garden. Right in the middle of it is small circular lawn which I hope to add a fountain to the centre. There WILL be a seat in that area. I may post some of the shade garden pics after the next couple of batches (posted before) but You may get more of an idea.

Daun, I have dabbled with HMF and posted some pics, but I have many more that I would like to post there. Yes I do have some roses listed there, but not many, and No my garden is not on the site. (under Pauline's Roses)

Thank you also so much Sheri and Les and Jeanie.
I will post some close ups as soon as I can. I do have trouble with my wide angled shots, detail not clear enough and washed out. All other aspects of my camera are great, but I get frustrated and actually took almost three days off from the garden just to try and go through my manual to get better pics and experiment. I really got myself in a mess. changing all the settings to find out that that was not want I wanted either and changed them all back again.. Very frustrating. I will get me that Cannon, yet! heehee!

Bustopher, here's one for you

Here, there are purple petunias, lobelia, and campanula in the rear rose bed, blue and white. I also grow lots of different campanulas which I will post pics when I am more caught up also Johnson's Blue geranium, just started delphiniums, of course Hydrangeas and fall asters.
Thanks again everyone for your great comments.
Pauline - Vancouver Island

Wow, I remember seeing some shots before but I am amazed at your stamina! What a beautiful place you've created. If I get close to your area, I'm coming to visit too! All this and flowers in pots too.

Carla

My second response here was meant for the sister thread Garden Shots - 2nd set. Sorry!

Carla, Come on down too. You know you are welcome. I wish you did not live so far away, and that would make it easier for you. But if you ever visit the Pacific North West, because we had the B&B, we have a nice suite that we use (a LOT) for friends and family. :)

Your garden is stunning. I especially like the formal garden area with the birdbath and the boxwood surrounding the base.

Eric

Wow, you must work in your gardens from daylight till dark.They are gorgeous.Everything is so healthy looking and down right beautiful.

Jean

Thanks for posting the picture showing some of the blue flowers. It all looks so nice. I'm sure there is a lot of work involved, and the results show.

WOW WOW WOW------ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS !!!!

No wonder you don't have time to post ----your garden shows how much you love it and all your hard work.

thanks for sharing !!

Florence

So amazing!

Beautiful garden Moodyblue. What is that pink rose in the vase and the orange rose at the back in the third picture?

Do you spray to keep the roses looking this good? I chopped off most of my buds and leaves due to Thrips and spidermites.

Karima

Again, thank you so much for your lovely comments.

Karima, the pink rose in the pot is a pink mini, sorry, name unknown, bought from our local supermarket.

The peachie one in the background is Charles Austin.

Pauline