Lakeside Paisley Print, Fair Maiden, Martini, Rhino Hide

Sultans of Swing, Plum Delicious, Sorbet, and Voices in the Wind

Heat Wave, Blue Tooth with June, Blue Shadows, and First Frost

Autumn Frost, Dressed to Kill, Aristocrat, and May

World Cup for first 3, Olive Bailey Langdon

June Fever, Fragrant Dream, Dream Queen, and Paul’s Glory

“Green Devil”, a sport of June Fever I found in my garden, Summer Serenade, Soul Shine, and Brother Stefan (in the shade)

Cluster of fragrant hostas (Guacamole, Stained Glass and Secret Love), Spartacus, Secret Love, and Stained Glass

Unruly Child, Luna Moth, Mariachi, and Restless Sea

Hudson Bay’s second flush of leaves (centers melted on older leaves), Cutting Edge, Honey Bear with Honey/Hunny Bunny, and Sunset Grooves

Happy Dayz with Moonlight Sonata, Tootie Mae, Dark Star, and Brother Stefan in sun.

Fragrant Queen, Royal Charmer, Ginsu Knife, and Tijuana Brass

Liberty, Afterglow with Worldly Treasure and Silk Kimono, Afterglow, and Krugerrand

Frozen Margarita, Bridal Falls, Sharp Dressed Man, and Mango Salsa

Side garden is doing well. Glory Hallelujah, Viking Sunshine, Kiwi Full Monty, Grecian Vase, and Summer Squall, Monster Ears, and Tenryu with Queen of the Seas

Snake Eyes, Kiwi Full Monty, Chodai Ginyo and Sun Drop, and Chorus Girl with mairisii fern

Remember Me, Wu La La with Paradise Glory, little Orange Marmalade, and Fog Light

Tom Terrific, Lakeside Paisley Print, Blueberry Muffin and Mourning Dove, and closeup of Mourning Dove

Silver Shadow, Picasso, and two of Ben Vernooij

Tokudama aureonebulosa, Halcyon with Ripple Effect, and two of Monkey Business

I'm making a new list of the hosta I might need to buy. Thanks for the leaves. I actually found some lost money on the state list of unclaimed monies and now I can start planning how to spend it.

Your begonias and toad lilies are blooming? I should check mine.

Thanks for sharing your photos!

My garden also has random dog-zoomies.

Wide views of the main garden in the dry creek bed.

The bench where I enjoyed this morning’s coffee. Two views of the hoard of hostas are either too small to plant, too pretty to place far away, or too much for me sort out. Lastly, the sun (and somewhat drought) tolerant hostas grown in pots with lots of clay soil mixed in to slow drainage.

Milkweed pods with milkweed bugs and seed fluff. Gaura has reappeared with the slightly cooler nights. Sad news for the last photo: the dying dogwood. You may not remember how glorious it was in 2020. Maybe it gave us everything it had left when we needed it the most. Google Fiber crew dug through its roots in early 2021. Canker set in. We have already removed 25% of the branches, yet more death appears. I remember its beautiful spring flowers and autumn show that stopped me and passersby many times for a quick photo of admiration.

The next 2 are for Franklynnsie: trio of Sweet Innocence, Captain Kirk, and a favorite, Lakeside Prophecy Fulfilled. The loss of dogwood branches has increased the understory sunlight, making these front yard specimens a bit sun scorched and water stressed. Reblooming lacecap hydrangea Shooting Star is about to open its autumn flowers. Peaches on the dwarf tree. For Ken, Winter Snow has yet to make it off the driveway.

They are all pretty but my favorites are the ones with leaf variegation of white/cream, dark and light green. I have that same reedy, leafy grass that pops up everywhere and has to get pulled out. Right now I am fighting it in the veg. garden. It seems to have multiplied over night.

Lots of great photos. Of course I love the Tokudama Aureo. Lakeside Prophecy Fulfilled is also a favorite of mine, glad you included a picture of yours. Over the years we lost 4 or 5 dogwood trees and now only have one that was transplanted to the rear of our lot. Our clay soil cannot be amended enough to allow the dogwoods to grow properly and no matter how big the hole we had dug for them and how much top soil we used, as soon as the dogwood roots hit the clay that was it. In the last 2-3 years, the gray squirrels have pushed out all of the reddish brown ones we used to have. The gray squirrels can climb any bird feeder pole, no matter how many baffles we put on them--I finally have taken to coating the poles with vaseline to keep them off. They eat all of the bird seed, peanuts, etc. Then when they are done with that they start digging in my pots of hostas and annuals. Doesn't matter what time of year that it is, they dig and throw out the plants. They are pests and destroy lots of plants. I don't have any toad lily blooms yet--yours are very pretty. My Monkey Business is in dappled shade--it's interesting to see yours on the porch, how much sun does it get? Love the dog photos, thanks for sharing.

Miles, thank you for the kind words and sharing. I call the squirrels "gd squirrels" for all of those reasons. Tree rats. I try to tell myself that their urine is good for my potted plants, but sometimes I wonder if their blood would be better....

Monkey Business usually does not live on that porch, but with the assorted hostas in front of the left side of the porch. It gets part-sun, minimum part-shade, mainly mid-late afternoon light. It has grown there since I purchased it from Naylor in the first 1-2 years after it was first released. I am amazed at how it has grown.

Liriope in bloom just changed everything.