Nice fall colors and camellia Davidrt. One day I might have a camellia flower. I currently have 3 still alive.

I'll call this my favorite garden picture from last week. It is a view not often shown, the view from below looking up. It gives a clear idea of the lay of the land and the relationship of my tiny house to the gardens. My most often seen view is from above. This is the winter garden that lasts from mid-November until the around the first of May when the green fuzz turns back to lush.

This is one of my favorite pics from 2021. The ajuga is Burgundy Glow, and I loved how it looked in front of the crabapple Royalty:

I love this idea for a thread and don't have time to review my photos from this year, but I'll be back first chance I get.

Christopher, what are the squares of bottles? in the ground?

Maz, very pretty, just think how that is going to fill in and the tree is going to grow much bigger!

Love this thread idea! Too bad my pictures from Chanticleer don't count.

Here's Lablab purpurea, my first time growing it and only 2 plants make a BEAST of a display. It was quite striking--we live on a cul-de -ac and have many people that take daily walks down our street, they always had a great view of this gorgeous vine. I love the contrast of the various shades of purple against the sage green siding.

@prairiemoon2 z6b MA those are Sangria wine bottles buried upside down. I call them the energy vortex transmitter/receivers. Glass captures the energy better than tinfoil. Unknown and unplanned, I kept settling in places with a hot spot energy vortex. Asheville is said to be one of them.

Hmmm.... Christopher - I am going to have to look up the energy vortex idea. Haven't the slightest idea what that's about. Although I have been reading about Electro Magnetic exposure lately and wonder if it has anything to do with that. Definitely will have to check that out. Interesting.

My 15 yr-old seed-grown baldcypresses starting to develop knees along border stream.

davidrt28..I have zone envy!..love to move and grow camellias someday..

the thought of moving is overwhelming..

my wooded lot with tropicals summer 2021..

It's hard to choose just one picture :-) I think Spring is prime time in this garden - perhaps because winter can seem so long! Last spring both the Chinese and Japanese wisterias did great blooms (which they hadn't done in a few years....!) The picture below is taken from the road May 30 after DH pruned off a lower branch on the Chinese wisteria (which is just finishing its bloom period.)

July 15, 2021, almost everything in full bloom.

Such beautiful pics everyone! davidrt28 thank you for starting this thread. I wish I could "like" your photo but this crazy houzz/gardenweb amalgamation that I seem to be on does not allow it for the OP. Camellias are beyond my zonal reach, even the cold hardy ones. Yours is lovely!

I agree that it is difficult to choose just one. It was too difficult to pick a particular plant or grouping so here is a section of garden. That was still hard!

Loving everyone's photos and this is an interesting thread.

I really enjoyed my photos from last season more. And I felt a little bit of disappointment in the 2021 season. I enjoyed the garden as much, there's always plenty of plants to enjoy but some seasons, the serendipity of how they perform and meld together is better than others. The weather was great in 2021. LOTS of rain, which is not usually the case. Less dragging the hose around for sure.

It is hard to choose one, but this is the one that caught my attention the most.

I rather enjoy this photo, the 'Baby Joe' Joe pye weed is stellar and verbena bonariensis shows so nicely when grown in groups of three or more.

I’m an urban gardener. The scale is different here.

My 2 yo Annabelle hydrangea did the best considering we had hardly any rain all summer.

Bill, looks like you had received as little rain as I did, the taps turned off in early June and never once during the ENTIRE summer had I received any more than 1/4 inch here and there until finally decent rains fell in September! Nice hydrangea by the way!

I like this one of the hummingbird perched on my chair gazing at the salvia. The hummingbirds visiting my yard makes me ridiculously happy. My boys like to watch them too.

Each year I mourn the loss of summer but then I’m delighted again to see my favorite plants show me their fall dresses. This is my Mt. Airy Fothergilla that gives me fragrant white flowers early spring to remind me warmer days ahead & it is one of the last friends in my yard to bid a colorful farewell. These shots are one week apart 10/23/21 & 10/30/21 It starts to glow and ends its show looking like a flaming hot torch! I’m in Vancouver, WA zone 8.

@KW PNW Z8 is your Fothergilla in full sun? I never had much luck with them. Yours is lovely.

Don't really have a "garden", but a few scattered annuals & perennials. Castor bean plant in late summer -- they're very unusual looking.

@Anna (6B/7A in MD) My Mt Airy is in mostly full afternoon sun. I chose this hybrid version of Fothergilla for its positive attributes - more compact, better flowering & brighter fall color so it’s performing as it should! I also like its greyish green leaf color - makes a nice contrast to the bright green of the Emerald Green arborvitaes behind it. It also is well watered but good drainage during hot summer. It’s sitting at bottom of short slope planted with Brass Buttons which needs the water in sunny spots.

beng,

I would like your last pic but it is your second entry. haha ;-)

FB,

1/4" of rain would've been welcome. After a good soaking in early April, we were limited to clouds and wind with a couple sprinkles until late August. :-(

Hmm - upon reading Bill’s latest post I see that I too may not have followed the rules. Specifically #3 ”one only”….. I took that as one post about one plant or scene. In my defense though, I thought that to really appreciate the full color of my one plant a sort of ”before & after” helped. ☺️

It's no big thing. Lots of times with these kind of threads, people have a hard time picking just one photo and they post more. We're a small group of people, seems to be a fair amount of interest in this thread and if people want to post more photos I don't have a problem with that.

I think Bill was joking, any way. [g]

As with everybody else, picking a favorite garden picture is like picking a favorite child. Not necessarily my favorite but this one has a lot of Monarch butterflies -- there must have been at least 8 when I took this picture (some are hard to see)

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Zone 7b NC……It’s difficult to pick just ONE photo from this year, because out of thousands (I take a lot of pics!)
each new photo and view of the garden becomes my “favorite”….

@prairiemoon2 z6b MA Yes, I agree that @User was joking! Since it did make me realize that I might not have followed the rules though, I thought I’d defend myself in advance to acknowledge that. In my experience, providing guidelines & thinking a large group will stick to them is akin to herding cats. Always lots of fun & especially so with creative types which I think anyone with a love for nature scaping is.

Ya, just kidding.

I didn't want to be the first to post more than one and couldn't wait to jump on the first one to do so. :-) All in good fun.

My yard was completely barren when I moved here 9 years ago so I don't have the spectacular, full yard gardens like some that have shard here but I'm still working on it.

Below is a new bed I put in last spring to start some creeping juniper, then the DW asked if I could find room for some Zinnia seeds. So in they went.

Also, some Paeonia Lactiflora X Paeonia Officinalis (I think) 'Red Charm' just getting going last June.

And some volunteer from seed annuals in another bed.

Now that we aren't doing just one

Oh wow, the eye candy on this thread is amazing!!

I started my rose garden last year. This is part of the spring flower show in mid June. I'm working on adding more plants and hope there will be a richer garden view.

That is a lovely rose garden already!

Fine then. I'll post one of my favorite pictures from this week. It's my disturbing urns and my new metal bench. I went cheap at the Big Box. It will need a cushion if I am ever on a garden tour again.

The evergreens in the foreground are Cephalotaxus harringtonia 'Prostrata', a plant that actually seems to like it up here. I will be needing another drift. Up top behind the bench are two clumps of the cold hardy clumping bamboo Fargesia rufa. The scenic byway is directly above. Ten years it took the bamboo to reach the level of the road shoulder.

@Christopher CNC - I like the bench - nice that it’s open pattern & metal - makes for no maintenance & durable in that setting. Disturbing planters? Look like nice bright spots of color to me. ☺️ Any occupants in the bird house? Bamboo in NC surprises me! ”cold hardy” isn’t a description I’d think of for any real bamboo.

Someone felt my urns were too formal for the wilderness and yellow to make matters worse. I've never sat still long enough to notice if any birds are using the nest box. Could be occupied. I have a lot of birds in season. You should see the bamboo down by the river. It is the kind of bamboo that scares people and gives bamboo a bad reputation.

Sorry I only have time to skim...I'm in IT project management hell right now.

Bill Bill Bill. What are we going to do with you? THE RULES ARE THE RULES!

But, I'm going to grant you a primary peony hybrid exception!!! Because I like that one.

Cab, good job, the hummers are so hard to catch with the camera!

Cab84, your salvia is a beauty! Mine's snug up against the south side of my house, though has become shaded out by nearby trees and must be moved over a bit come spring.

RTHawk, that's the 'Pink Frost' Eupatorium? ... nice, nice!!

Ndnay, your walkway is glorious!! :)

Bill, who doesn't like zinnias!!

I don’t know if it’s my favorite but it does show a bit more than my usual close ups!

Sorry to play favorites but I really like that one, oursteelers!

I like them all though, thanks to everyone who played along.

I realized my first pic had only green plants..only the turquoise pots added color!..

so for my second pic I looked for plants with color..a little red from the pots, the canna and the Japanese maple..still lots of green..

it's shady here..

Dang it. This is probably cheating but nicholsworth made me want to post a green one-I love all the different shades

thanks oursteelers!..now I don't feel like such a freak Lol..

actually I love green..a garden without lots of green wouldn't do it for me..

This is Newbert looking at his flower garden this past June.

@Dig Doug's Designs Your all black Newbert makes a very cool silhouette kind of picture. Seems to me he’s more likely pondering the butterflies and birds that are inaccessible to him in that lovely garden. 😉

One of my favories as i find it so calming...

and a peek-thru view...