scully, It is so pretty. You've done a wonderful job in 5 years. And what a great view from your kitchen window. I just love it!

Lots of work and tender loving care brings beautiful results. Thanks for posting a pic of the fountain in an actual garden. I've always wondered about those and how they fit it. Nice.

I love it! I especially enjoy your pics since we are form the same area. Your hibiscus are awesome!! Do u cut yours back every spring? I only have one and I do but this may be the last year I can, the trunk is so big I can't really get my loppers around it. Anyway, Its just so beautiful!! Your shed is the perfect shade of green. Don't ever change it!! :)

I always enjoy others pictures! Is that astilbie on the left of your gorgeous fountain? I have never seen them in "person".

I saw your garden pics last night, but was too pooped from work to write anything, lol! But I kept thinking of your lovely garden and wanted to tell you today how much I enjoyed it!

Love the tropical garden. I've ALWAYS wanted to make a tropical area too, with big bold foliage and plants that remind me of the tropics.

Everything looks super. Great job and thanks for sharing!
CMK

I am new here and have been browsing through the threads on this forum. What a beautiful garden! Someday I hope mine will be as nice!

I like the misty pictures, especially the second one with the forest background.

Very pretty, I had to go and search for the shed as I didn't see it 1st time 'round it blends so nicely into the landscape. Great job, thanks for sharing! Rena'

Thank you all so much for looking! I live in a hidden neighborhood so not many people see my gardens.

Funny thing about the color of that shed... when I moved in it was brown and very run down looking. My neighbors (love them!) are very...observant, shall we say. (I think they keep a log of my comings and goings. haha) I slapped one stroke of that green on the brown shed and they were over making not-so-subtle comments about the new color. They liked it once it was done, though. I think they just were worried a wild woman had moved in across the street from them.

Yes, plantmaven, that is an astible. I have several, but that is my favorite. It gets so tall.

I do cut my hibiscus back to the ground each fall, lilyfinch. Don't yours grow up from the ground each year? Or are they sending new shoots from an old stem? I don't really know all that much about hibiscus, even though I have quite a few.

Schoolhouse - yes, I had been eyeing that fountain for awhile, wondering where I would be able to put it. I think you really need a wall or backdrop of some sort for those flat backed ones. I run an extension cord through my garden (under the mulch) and under the grass pathway. It's a little hard to clean the fountain when it gets clogged, since it needs to be pulled away from the wall. Definitely not a fountain for someone who minds maintenance. I'm going to a pond shop sometime soon to see if they have any ideas to keep the debris out.