What I am doing in my garden now!

Pix's, I can't get the link to work - help!

Hmm. It's working for me, Laurie. But it's a thread I started to announce the hellebores heidi has at a greatly reduced cost. You can find it on the NW forum thread list if the link doesn't work for you.

It eventually worked - when the Norton update finished.

I think this is where I first posted my Hellb.
This is what she looks like..

Bloom shot. its is the darkest Hell I have seen, so far.

That's a beautiful color!! Now you need a whitish colored one to put behind it so the dark blooms will show up even better. I love the dark ones. But I must admit to being a little disturbed by your abbreviation for the name! LOL!! How can a flower that lovely be the 'darkest hell'????
Sorry, Tills, I just had to! LOL!!

OK, I will look on my first hell to see if there are any flowers left, but they are green/brown if I am not mistaken. And I just recently got my second, H. "Ivory Prince" which is now happily blooming in its 4 inch pot. My shade garden has gotten confusing lately, as I cut down the vast majority of the shade, a Japanese Maple which was 4 feet from the house. So now I need to shuffle plants around, and probably create a totally new shade garden.

But yesterday, I spent the morning lining the start of a drainage ditch that runs along 2 sides of my property. We live at the end of a cul-de-sac, and have a street drain right into the ditch, which provides for down stream water quality. Well, for the last 15 years, it was just a ditch there, with grass on both sides. This year, there is going to be a perennial on each side of the dang ditch, with a lovely broken concrete wall on each side of it. Hopefully, the plants (mostly from the GE) along with a Canna 'Phason' aka Tropicanna or the Howard Stern of plants from our own NWGordon, will be the Master of Ceremonies. Now I just have to round out the plant selection.

Pictures, AD. Do you want to start a thread so we can all see it develop?

I love a new thread. More room to roam.

I too wondered about the 'hell' being a bad start to today. Lol. Yes bring on a new thread so we can wander elsewhere.

Hi Y'all
I am taking most of my lawn up and making the borders much bigger........... then i can plant a few crocosmia in the garden!!!
Well, crocosmia, tricyrtis, day lilies and Schizostylis.

Mark

Hi Mark,
How's your project coming along? I haven't peeked in on it in a bit.

How 'bout sharing some pictures here?

Carole

Hello Mike, nice to run into you over here.

Welcome, Mark!!

Would love to see some of your pictures or a link to where you've posted them. What is the "project" Sue's referring to?

Hey y'all

I am afraid rain stopped play on the project for the time being!!
The project itself was to dig up the lawn area and widen the borders so we can fit in more plants. It will eventually have a lawn path between the two borders. But not a straight path.......... has to be a winding one. I will find the thread and post the link for you all....

Thank you for the lovely welcomes............. nice to be on a different part of DG that i have never been on before.

Didn't know this is where you hang out Susybell...........

This is the link.............. http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/819439/

Wow - great project and fun thread!!! thanks for the link, Mark.

Just added another pic........................ taken 5 mins ago out of the window.

So Mark - where is Caistor - a Google search gives me a couple of different options . . .

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Omigosh - that's wonderful . . . just the kind of thing that gives me goosebumps!!!!

nooooooooooooooooooo CaistOr not CaistEr............

Caistor is in Lincolnshire............ www.caistor.net

Murmur

I just wish the weather would stop messin and give us some sunshine for a few days, then i could really get on with it.........
Have a load of my crocosmia plants that i want to stick in the ground!!!!!!! Just can't make up my mind which as yet........LOL

Yeah :-) That was definitely just a typo. Thanks for the link!!

You are welcome Katie................. Its a lovely area round here!!

We live on the Lincolnshire Wolds..........

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Hi Mark,
Yup, this is where I spend most of my time on DG. :) I have so much fun in here with these folks that I almost don't like to leave. :)

Your border is looking great! Do you think you could post the link to your Schizostylis & Crocosmia sites again? I keep losing them in the threads. When I go back to bookmark them I can't find the posts again. :(

Hi Susybell...........

Seems like a nice friendly place to be................ I may come back here again!! LOL

Thanks.............. but the border is looking very sad at the minute......... can't wait till spring then i can get stuff sorted!!

the sites are: www.simplesite.com/crocosmia and www.simplesite.com/schizostylis
good job i know them off the top of my head!! LOL

Mark, please do visit again - soon! Or hang out permanently - that would be better yet! It's great fun to see what you and Lauri are up to with your gardens.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh if you insist murmur................................... LOL

So, do you have any pics of your garden.....????????????

Do you want to see some of mine from last summer/autumn.......???

Mark

Mark - We'd love to have you over here. We're always up for more ideas and we are absolutely addicted to photos. And I'm not above "lifting" a good idea for incoroporation into my yard.

I for one would love to see as many pictures of your garden as you'd like to post.

Murmur was just posting some of her beautiful blues last night on one of our other threads (we jump around a lot LOL).

Hi Mark,

Thanks, got them bookmarked now. :)
Your border may not be sorted, but the shape and structure is really nice, and that's key for it looking great later on.

Yes, Murmur's blues were just gorgeous.

I am always having ideas................ but our garden isn't big enough to do too much with it.... But if you see any ideas in any photos Katie, you are welcome to lift them!!! LOL

I will post one or two for you to have a look at............

What are murmur's BLUES........??????

Susy............. don't lose them this time!! LOL
Yes the shape is kinda there, still needs altering a little yet!! It will look cool when its planted........ you will see as we do it.

Mark

Mark,
Here are Murmur's blues http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4684978

I'll be more careful with the links this time.... ;)

We always like hearing different ideas for our gardens, too, so do share your thoughts.

Ok, a quick view of the very top of the garden where the lawn ends and a concrete path begins. The path takes you between two borders to a patio where the greenhouse is situated.....

This is one of my fav plants in the garden.............. its a snakes head fritilaria

Oh, Mark, so pretty and lush!!

Do you want to start a new thread so we can come straight to your pictures for our "garden fix"?

Mark's Garden Pictures.

Katie................... yes it is very lush, we are lucky here to be able to grow almost anything we want to grow.

This pic is one of the crocosmia beds................. see if you can count how many varieties there are!! LOL

Do you have Sea Holly over there.........................??????

this is the patio are round the greenhouse.........

That will do for now....................... don't want to bore you too much!!