Any one with Long views?

Such lovely photos, everyone!

Gazania - your gardens are beautiful and so well tended! If you're ever up this way just drop me a note and I'd be happy to give you a tour.

Venu - does your kitty love the Nepeta or avoid it? My daughter's cat used to roll in it. Love the Humonus Horizontalis! Love your gardens as well.

Jo Ann - lovely compositions, as always.

Thanks, Chris, Holly Ann and dear Zuzu for all the sweet compliments.

Beautiful pictures everyone.

Louise, your gardens are gorgeous! Love those roses and catmint.

Thanks Gals! The cat has no interest in the nepeta unless there is a baby bunny, mouse or bird in it.

HollyAnn, Humonus Horizontalis doesn't do the outside work, but he vacuums!

My two care nothing about it, even though they love catnip. Jo Ann was just saying her cats like the catmint too, though.

My dear Ric will do anything, both inside and out. Best of all he feeds me.
Here is a couple of closer pics of those small beds.
I have no idea when we will get the bricks laid in the stoned area but we are picking them up this Friday.

Huh, mine has no interest in catnip. He doesn't eat grass either.
Oh My Lord............as I type this I just heard the rain start. Hard Rain. Yikes. Instead of plants I'm going to be investing in scuba gear.

This is the small bed on the right that wraps around the potting shed. There are a couple of heuchera some impatiens, morning glories are coming and a few left over pansies. Then around behind the potting shed some more shade lovers, you can see the red tray that is where I am working to extend this bed.

Holly, your pic is inspiring me to rethink a strip that looks similar to yours. I always plant impatiens, but I am getting tired of the annual planting. Hostas and maybe Jacob's Ladder might work much better!

Thank you venu209, I practically gutted that entire bed last year and replanted it. I was looking for a pic of the bleeding heart and daffs that were blooming together earlier this spring. Both gone now till next spring. Sorry to say that I couldn't find the pic. There was something about the combo that I really liked.

I had deer damage Monday morning.
Its not like there wont be a single flower hwew this summer but they ate half the Phlox David tops and many lilies that I hadnt seen bloom their first year.
Guess I go to a 2 week spary schedual for Liquid Fence.
We are here 2 full years now and had no damage, I began to believe there wee no deer.
DD said she noticed her cat in the bedroom window in the middle of the night and looked down to see a big deer eating under my bedroom window.
Yep it ate Sunny Crown tops.

We had no deer problems until last year but so far Repels All have kept the deer away.

I agree with venu about getting tired of the same old plant in the same old spot (like impatiens, simply because they thrive so easily) and a change of pace is so nice. Some gardens remain the same year after year while others are ever changing projects.

I thought I had a better photo, showing more of the Bleeding Hearts with the Daffodils, but this is the only one I found. You can barely see the Bleeding Hearts in the background.

Here you can see the Bleeding Hearts but not the face of the Daffodils. Some day I'll get it right.

Chris - what is your path made of?

The path is wood chips. I used to have a chipper and made my own but that got to be too much for me and lately I've been buying them about every other year. I like the way the wood chips look and the way they are soft underfoot but I'm not sure that they are really produced in an environmentally responsible way so I'm looking around for a better solution. Does anyone have a better idea?

Provided you can find them, since many people can't, the crushed long pine needles are excellent and could go right over your wood chips, Chris. They're very soft on the feet and make a nice transition from one area to the next.

The wood chips look beautiful - I do have a chipper and live in the woods, so chipping all those fallen branches may be a good idea. The pine needles are gorgeous and that's basically what I have. I've just raked them up every year and placed them in the path. Unfortunately, there is a limited amount from our white pines and they compress so much that the path looks unfinished.

The wood chips, and needles for that matter, are a beautiful and natural looking transition. Perhaps I can lay a base of chips and top off with my needles? Another project!

At least it's a fairly fast project and between the chips and needles it should look great.

I never thought of pine needles and both of my sons have pine trees in their yards. I'll bet I can get some from them. I'm not sure if they're the long soft kind but I'm going to check into it. Thanks Pirl.

It used to take ten big barrels to do the path shown above with the small needles (I have plenty of them!) and it took about four bags of the long needles to do the same job. We did use the greenhouse weed free fabric under them.

Another long view.

That's fabulous beyond words!

Thanks, Zuzu.

The Japanese irises are so early and so beautiful this year.

Just breathtaking, Pirl. You are an artist without a paintbrush!


Teresa

Thanks, Teresa! What a lovely compliment.

I've found I like taking photos when the clouds are out to eliminate the harsh sunlight.

Its just beautiful Pirl.

Thanks, Jo Ann.

This is not quite long but still another view of yet another JI garden.

This is whats blooming today
Tiny Sensation Lilies and coriopsis Autumn Blush

Great colors!

I have posted this on the daylilly forum, but some may have missed this one.

Teresa in KY

Wonderful! I love a big solid block of colors.

That is one wonderful collection of DL's Theresa

Gorgeous pictures everyone.

Love that leaf birdbath, Pirl.

Pirl, Love your gardens and photos, I agree that diffuse light improves may scenes especially whites tend not to glare.
Chris, An alternate source of chips could be a local tree service, especially if you catch them close by. A cold six-pack or Hamilton couldn't hurt! I've also found a six-pack in a bucket of ice put out with trash they will not take usually gets you an empty bucket:-) . LOL Ric

happining now

Happining now #2

Such happy summer colors!

Beautiful! Especially the poppy and that almost-black columbine.

Thats a new plant from Bluestone just planted a couple of weeks ago.
Black Barlow columbine
The poppy is Flemish Antique

Love that picture of the blue bud in number 2.