Outrider , how long have you been gardening? I really love the space you have created . Your hard work is evident! You ordered a lot of the same roses I did so I'm very excited to see how they turn out next year for you and what space you create next . What is the tall dark red plant by the bird bath ?

Bee balm , lovely photos ! Looks like you have a good mix of perennials there . I need to work on that . I have some salvias , have one bee balm but it mildewed so I am pulling it , and I like pincushion flowers and daylily too .

My bird feeder garden . Seems in a random place but I can see it from the windows in the winter and really enjoy it . The gnomes came from my grandparents garden .

My garden in pa . Often I wonder what it may have been if we had stayed but just for a moment. It was a very small lot and we had no privacy from neighbors and family so it's forvthe best .

We had some beautiful foggy mornings this fall .

It seems I either never had my beds looking fresh or I never took pictures! Haha but these show what my beds look like. Sorry for the weeds and the grass in the mulch drive me batty all summer .

I love a good front porch so I was pleased this year with how ours turned out.

View from my swing

Beebalm-I just love your use of color combinations and mixed perennials! Gorgeous!

Lilyfinch- I am obsessed with your view!! Omg! Just breathtaking. And that hydrangea!! I have owned my house for a little over 2 years and there was absolutely no landscaping at all. I've been a busy one haha! I am fairly new to gardening (about a year and a half) and am so thankful for resources like the forums to have helped me develop my green thumb :-)

The tall red plant I think you're referring to is actually a Madame Julia Correvon Clematis on an obelisk. She's a wild one! I hack her back to almost the ground twice during the growing season. This picture is later season after I have her and my amazing delphiniums cut back once already (you can see them both creeping back up for a second wind haha)

Great idea, I love to see other's gardens.

The view from the shop/garage door.

The "rose bed"

My new, this year, garden ornament, I love it.

Another view of the rose bed, Floral Fairy Tale dominates

Beautiful gardens everyone!! Yours all look so nice and clean and organized. Mine is a hodge podge mess that's overrun with weeds, underplantings, blackberries and grasses, and pine needles. Unfinished beds, ugly equipment that my husband leaves lying around (me too I'm afraid), the messy work areas and the chicken run! There are some nice little vignettes and pretty things here and there tho... if you look hard enough! LOL

Here's a few of my garden shots...

One of my dogwoods that finally bloomed this spring...

Old wheelbarrow turned into a planter inside the veggie pen (that used to be a dog run)...

My husband's Santa Rosa plums hanging almost over the back patio...

My rhodie BLUE PETER in the backyard "oasis bed" as I call it. The rose in the pot (not blooming) is SWEET SAN CARLOS. This is basically a purple and magenta bed...

This is one section of what I call my DA "corral beds." Notice the junk to the left. That's stuff my husband brought from his parents' house after it sold. It's a big rototiller, an ironing board and a bunch of other crap, most of which is still sitting there. LOL That tree is the plum tree.

A scrub jay on the bird-feeding pergola..

This was one of my Xmas presents last yr. My bottle tree. Wow that whole background area is now all overgrown with plants (and undesirables...)

This is the bird-feeder pergola earlier in the yr. I have since weeded that area and put down weed barrier to slow down the growth of the grasses that keep popping up there!! It's all a work in progress, albeit a slooooow progress... LOL

Inside the veggie pen.... this was the Yellow Brandywine tomato from hell! It took forever to grow, until it was too late in the summer. I only got 2 halfway decent tomatoes off it, and they were lacking in flavor. The dang thing took over the raised bed like a giant octopus! There are about 8 roses in there that were supposed to be there "temporarily." (You guessed it! They're still there...)

And the requisite chicken pen shot... This was before we added the corrugated metal roofing over the coop and extended the run out another 16ft to the left. Heck... This must've been before we even put the first batch of chickies out there last yr. I guess they were still little babies inside the house at this point! My how time flies... The rose bed in the foreground is totally overrun with blackberries right now. We just haven't had the time or energy to get out and clear them out.

Yep, my garden is a big mess! It'll probably be this way til we retire, which is only a handful of yrs from now... Then I'll be even more tired and will probably end up giving it up at some point. Getting to be too much I'm afraid.

Outrider - only two years ?! You seem much more design advanced in my humble opinion. I don't know .. maybe I spent too many seasons making mistakes before I finally got it . Of course we never are done learning and doing ! My Julia correvon must not be in great soil because it's no where near as lush !

Mossy , your view is stunning and I love what you have done ! Your glass totem is fabulous, did you make it yourself or stumble on it somewhere? I ordered floral fairy tale and your photo made my heart happy to see it . Please feel free to share more with us .

Beth - we really have a horrible habit of being hard on ourselves! All i see is charm charm charm! Love the bird house and the arbor ! I also did a wheelbarrow with petunias but they suffered all summer. Too much water then too little then I gave up ! Let me look for a pic . Of course I love the bird feeder pergola ! You inspired my bird feeder garden . And the bottle tree is amazing ! I worked at a winery and used to only drink Riesling so the bottles came easy but I never saved em (ugh! ! ) I see so much beauty in all of your gardens and that's what we should all focus on .. not the junk that we seem to think every one sees . It's a bad habit I need to break , pointing out what isn't right .

found one decent wheelbarrow photo

I liked this visitor this spring. Barn swallows come and nest every year under our deck . We had two families and then this family in the house. They are amazing , they swoop in the evening through the yard and sing while eating insects. They are so beautiful!

In a nearby neighborhood was this beautiful garden . The lady was very kind to talk to .

It just oozes cottage charm !