Here are the results of all your help!!!!

Good evening all you helpful ones....I have been a very busy girl, I have added several more small plants and the ones I planted earlier have really taken off. Here is some of the plants you helped me to pick...Homestead verbena in purple and red, 2 upright verbena, liriope, 3 heuchera's, 2 geum's, a hebe, vinca, 3 ajuga, kinnikinnick, aubrieta, and I know I am forgetting a few. I am going to post a few new pictures and let me know what you think.... Here is a picture of the dahlia fence now...note the fence is 6' high, one of the bloom is at least a foot above the fence and they are still growing...lol

Here is the other side of the fence....

I also added star gazer lillies, agastache...apricot sprite, blue fortune, and tutti frutti...too bad we don't have smellivision on these computers...lol
Here is one of the 5 Blue Fortunes.....It is the lavender in the front next to the yellow daylily...also right there too is the upright red verbena. These will all grow bigger next year when they are better established and fill in nicely...I think....

Redtootsiepop....notice the red and white flower next to the glad??? Yes, I found several hot lips salvia and just love them...thanks for the recommendation. I ended up with 6 plants of that one...the other salvia/sage I found are black and blue, may night, marcus, purple majesty, sapphire blue, santa barbara, azurea blue sage, greggii flame, and silver sage. I really love them all...Thanks

Here is the 1st daylily bed and it is doing great!

My Hibiscus on the side of the house garden is doing great too despite all the rain!

And for some reason I just love this fuschia/birdhouse/hydrangea combination...the large leaf of the hydrangea and the small flower and leaf of the fuschia just are pleasing to my tastes???not sure why I like them I just do....

My other daylily bed with a lot of the recommended plants mixed in....

Did I forget anything?
You have all been more help than you will ever imagine....I am still trying to convince DH to let me have more grass. My sister flew in last Monday to stay for 3 weeks and she is working on him with me...lol
I will leave you with my favorite resting place in the garden....

cocoajuno!!!! Let me be the first to say Florific!!! That is just such a celebration of all things gardening - I am just thrilled to bits with what you have done, it looks as exciting as you sound excited. I'm going back now for another look. Wonderful. where shall we have tea?

Laurie1,
Thanks so much...I had a lot of help choosing some new additions to the old...I think we shall have our tea right here....What do you think?
Happy gardening,
Carla

Beautifully done Carla.

Thank so much Robert...you have d-mail

Okay. That Dahlia picture is something else. Congrats on all your hard work. I love your "tea place".

Kathy

Divine, Carla, absolutely divine!!!

And the name of the Dahlia is.....................................?
more eyecandy, please.

Thanks Murmur and Katye...and thanks for the help from both of you! Did you recognize any of the small flowers in the pictures or was it to hard to pick them out?

Katye the name of the Dalia is...Art Deco

This is my favorite new Daylily...Cat Dancer

Happy weekend, Carla!

What is the approx. height of Cat Dancer? Real nice - I am looking for some Daylilies that would look good planted in front of my Berberis Helmund Pillar. This might work - where do you purchase your daylilies? Local, or online?
I will be looking for Art Deco, too - Really like Dahlias, but with 2 dogs going on wild tears through the yard, they don't fare so well. Just readied a bed in the Veg garden, so the Dahlias will be safe.

The Fuchsia - is it a hardy one? And did you plant it this year, or is it older? How tall? Want to answer any more questions?

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Hi Katye...

This is the description for Cat Dancer - salmon pink with lavender rose eyezone above radiating lime green throat, 4.5" bloom X 28" height, Dormant, Mid season Diploid (Moore 1992) this is the ebay person I bought it from....ccory1234, Kentucky.

I got a lot of my dahlia tubers including Art Deco from Zanna1 on ebay, she sells some very nice glads also.

The Fuchsia is 5 years old and I trim it every year or it would be a lot taller. It is hardy and I will go out and check the name in the next day or so and d-mail it to you. Right now it is 4' and that is the height I will keep this one at. I have another that I trim to about 30" and keep it there all year. I plant all fuchsias in the ground next to the house and have never lost one...even last year our weird winter. I have Lena from a hanging basket I put it in the ground after the 1st year..it has been there 2 years and does great,

By next spring I might have enough to share...we will see...I have already committed to sharing the dahlia with another DG'er. I also believe we could do a soft cutting of the fuchsia...but I am sure spring is a better time to do it. I will try now though and if it works I could mail it...nothing ventured nothing gained!

I think I covered all the questions...if not let me know. Here is a closeup of the flower on the fuchsia..

Happy gardening, Carla

Here is a picture of Lena ( the basket fuchsia).

Really pretty fuchsia, what is the exposure - east?
I had Lena, it did not make it throught last winter.

Cat Dancer is available at several places online, and so is Art Deco, so I can order some.

Plant shopping happened again today - I had to exercise extreme restraint regarding zone pushing. I have no greenhouse so storage is a problem. So many cool plants that don't like our cold wet weather...

All of my many fuchsias are east facing and against the house. I have 2 lena, marshmallow, a cape fuchsia and 3 hardy ones that I cannot remember there names...lol
Those 2 sellers on ebay are very reliable...Zanna1 grew up in the same are of Arizona that I did...
Speaking of greenhouse I plan on using it a little more this fall/winter than usual. I am going to winter over my geraniums.
Wow you have a lot of restraint not buying more plants...lol I couldn't do it

It wasn't easy - but I simply have no room for new residents in my house. I will confess to buying 2 "out-of-zone" plants only because they had been drastically reduced and won't take up too much space. My garage does not work as a storage area because it gets so cold in there - Greenhouse is MY priority only - rats....

Katye,

They are very easy to build and do not need a concrete floor....mine is 6" deep pea gravel with stepping stones for standing and stability. You can get the hard poly type siding in Snohomish. My DH and I had it up in 2 Saturdays....I drew up the plan (wish I would have gone bigger, got the 2 X 4's, painted the greenhouse stain on the wood, bought the siding and screwed it on the frame. It has been up since 2000 and is still sturdy and as great as ever...I have jalapeno peppers, habenaro peppers, bell peppers, and a tomato growing in there right now. It is also a good storage area for my garden tools. My DH is going to run electricity to it this month.

Cocoajuno -

I have been looking all over for simple greenhouse instructions - sounds like what you have. Would you consider posting pictures of your greenhouse in the greenhouse forum sometime?

I don't want anything fancy and will use recycled materials where I can. I just want sturdy and practical to keep the frost off. Like you, I'll add things like heat as time goes on.

Kathy

I will take pictures tomorrow afternoon and d mail you...this is all I have right now.

That looks perfect. I have hands and a saw and the will, but no basic building background. I'm hoping that this will get me started.

Thank you!!

Kathy

Hi Carla,

Your garden looks fabulous! You've done an amazing amount this summer!

Good morning susybell,
Thanks so much, I did use some aubrieta...as you suggested a variegated leaf with purple flowers and I put kinnikinnick on that hill that I have trouble growing things on and it is doing great. Thanks for your help...Carla

I like the variegated aubrieta best, too. It sounds like you put the kinnikinnick in the perfect spot!

You're welcome, but I didn't really do anything at all. You did all the work and made the decisions that made it work so well!

Hello all,

I am a month out from a second surgery on that back problem...it was another success! I have been busy trying to get the last of the plants I purchased in the ground, my sweet DH built a new garden area for some of my new plants, he did this all by himself...so sweet! He has also volunteered to drive me to the plant swap and I think I will take him up on the offer. I do not know what I will have to offer but I will check it out. I would just love to come and enjoy meeting all of you.
Here is the newest area...I am slowly getting rid of some of the grass...and my DH is helping....lol

Oh by the way, do any of you know how I can disguise that rain barrell quicker? I have planted several grasses in that corner but until they take off I would love to hide it...I even thought about a bamboo room divider, I tried a pot with grasses in front of it but it still did not do the trick....it is plastic, maybe I could paint it green or the fence color...I am at a loss until the pampas grass takes over, or is that a mistake???? I don't know much about those grasses???

Hi Carla!

Such good news about your surgery, and that you are going to try to get to the plant swap!

You filled in your triangle corner! How exciting! It's already looking good-you definitely have a knack for this..

In some places Pampas grass is considered invasive and hard to get rid of, I don't know if WA is one of them. Seems like you picked a good spot for a large focal point grass, though.

Good for you for HAVING a rain barrel. I'd like to add one someday, too. What if DH built a freestanding, almost like a trellis, mini section of fence to put in front of the rain barrel, sort of to fool the eye until the grass grew bigger? Then you could either move it or leave it and train something to grow over it?

Good idea, Susybell!!

And omigosh, Carla, that is incredible - and your DH sounds like a real gem!! So glad the surgery went well, too - now you can really have some fun!!!

Carla - Glad that you've recovered and that your surgery was a success. Woohoo. You must feel great.

And what a darling husband, to get a new bed ready for you to fill up. I look forward to meeting you at the Green Elephant.

Kathy

Carla - looks great, and I love the way you placed you in the picture - perfect shadow!

Bravo Bravo Bravo !!!! Nicely done and very inspiring, love all the colors!

Wonderful! You have an eye for composition and color.

Great news about the surgery Carla. The new garden is looking nice, and the seating in the back certainly looks inviting.

Good news about your surgery, Happy for you. And your DH is a Gem, been trying to get mine more involved, Hard to train a old dog new tricks but I keep trying.
I can really see you and Laurie having tea in that wonderful spot.
I have a pampas grass they are not invasive they just keep getting rounder and fuller I have not see any new babies popping up.mine started out at a foot around now it is about 6 feet around. and its 5 years old. Food for thought.