Your garden always looks lovely Lori. May I say that as you edit it, I like it even better?

What a beautiful garden! It looks well-rested, and ready to keep blooming all summer.

Thanks for the photos,

Virginia

Beautiful thanks for the photos.

A long wait, but worth it. Very pretty, very springlike!

Gorgeous! Just the look I am going for -- plants spilling out onto each other everywhere. I see what I think is a blue Geranium in the front of the bed in the first pic. The leaves remind me of my 'Tschelda' -- do you remember the name of yours? The genus is full of so many great "fillers" that I'm always out to find out about more.

:-)

~Christopher

Lovely pics Lori! May I ask, what is that plant in front of Shailer's Provence? Not the hostas- the sort of upright one with foliage that looks like giant celery leaves?

Thank you all!

Rosefolly, I like my garden better as I "edit" it, though others who have seen it in past years of glory have been shocked by some of the changes. I have less than half the roses I did four or five years ago. But I like the calm of the larger stretch of lawn that has regrown, and the concentrated bursts of color that remain are improved and better tended than before.

I try to plant lots of companion plants so I have some interesting blooms all summer even for the areas planted with once-blooming roses (which is over half my remaining collection).

Christopher, I grow many different varieties of hardy geraniums and have trouble remembering them all sometimes, but in the first photo I think I have g. renardii on the left (related to Tschelda but mine was not a named variety I can recall) and "Johnson's Blue" on the right. The renardii has thicker, more succulent foliage than other species I grow.

Muscovyduckling, The large leaved plant growing in front of Shaler's Province is Aconite (Monkshood), which will eventually get 5' tall or so and bloom in fall.

...all very lush.... great to have acid soil, and I like your lattice work too...

Looks wonderful and very natural! You have such a lovely house that the roses and rest of the plants do a great job of complementing it and fitting well into the surroundings. Isn't it nice to have roses that don't require a lot of spraying in your challenging BS climate? These are great testaments to the beauty of "right rose, right place" and the effectiveness at having a garden you can sit back and enjoy and be proud of.
Thanks for sharing this with us!

Cynthia

Yes, Lori, it was that foliage which I recognized. Thanks for getting back.

:-)

~Christopher

What a sight for sore eyes, Lori. Not only blooms, but green everywhere. The compositions are all wonderful, and that is what really makes a garden. Shailer's Provence is spectacular. I too have Aloha but it's small and I'm nipping off all the buds, hoping it will have some height to compensate for my late lamented Mutabilis. Please keep posting pictures as the season progresses.

How pretty, Lori. After such a long and cold winter, the blooms in the garden are doubly, doubly welcome. i hope you have a beautiful summer. Gean