Beautiful Ulli,
Everything looks great and I love the job you did on your leafcasting. What leaf did you use for it?

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What a fun yard. I was in a small hamlet the other day and each house was very well landscaped. Many had a little plot of flowers where the owners could express their distinct personalities and preferences. It was enjoyable to ride around the town looking at them.

Just Beautiful !! What's the Monarda in the first photo ??

I dont even know what monarda is , beebalm? lupines and maltese star, on the first pic?
I am terrible with names, I have a friend coming this weekend and we will do some plant identifying, we should be pretty busy, when I go to look for perennials, I hardly see anything that I don,t already have planted somewhereI just bought 12 more, and also need to plant 3 lilacs, I would like to grow a lilac hedge
Ulli

My bad ;) Yes, the beautiful raspberry colored bee balm....just wondered what the name of it was. I would love so get some of that !!! Thanks !!

Blackie

Just gorgeous!!!!

Beautiful gardens, Ulli! Everything looks so neat and tidy! What is your secret for keeping the all the weeds at bay?

I will look at the tag and tell you the name, I didnt even know monarda is beebalm LOL. I have nothing but weeds, I looked this mnorning, I properbly spent all weekend pulling. Ther is a daylily sale this weekend, I will go there too, I have 16 new plants I bought and 3 lilacs LOL I will be busy, I want to dig a new bed but maybe I just put everything in existing ones and dig next spring, its sooo hot. I weedwack but I am getting tempted to get roundup and just go a couple of inches around the beds , I can,t get rid of creeping charlie, it goes in between the rocks. Karen, I made the leaf last year with a rhubarb leaf, it ways about 50 pounds, I did it with quick crete vinyl patch, that is very smooth and you can see the details the best.Then I painted it up with patio paint and gave it a coat of glaze. I held up pretty good.
Ulli