Hello Mike,
I was waiting for you to post more photos of your amazing gardens!
They evolve every year and, thought it is hard to imagine, get even more impressive each year.
Thank you for indulging us! Hope you can continue to post pictures, because I am sure, there are many more admireres beside me who truly enjoy taking a tour thru your creation!

~Grateful Natalie

You gardens are indeed "a little paradise".

Thanks once more for sharing them with us, Mike.

Libby

I always look forward to your photographic tours of your gardens!

Thanks,
Cameron

WOW! A cottage garden with a real cottage! Very impressive gardens! Thanks so much for sharing!!!

What can I say, - I am just happy that you enjoy my garden as much as I do. Sharing something beautiful does turn the world into a better place...
Mike

Such a sumptuous visual feast! You take fantastic photos, your love is flowers is visible in all the small details.

Questions:
What is the name of that blue rose? I've never seen one that looked so truly purple.

What is photo 21? So exotic looking and unfamiliar.

Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed the escape to the Netherlands.

Hi,
The name of that truly purple rose (a climber) is 'Indigoletto'.
Photo 21 is, if we are talking about the same picture, 'Callistemon rigidus', native to Australia and very popular here in Holland.
Thank you for taking a closer look!
Mike

Please tell me you have a staff! :-) Your gardens are wonderful...how many years did it take to get to such a lush, beautiful point?

Your gardens are beautiful. You must have an ideal climate because even though you're in zone 8B, you seem to be able to grow everything.

Mary

Gorgeous pictures! I would like to know what photos 49,82, and 104 are of. Thankyou.

Mike - I have just spent the better part of the morning being transported to 'paradise' - your place is gorgeous and your photography even more so - thank you so much for sharing......

Lynne

Nr 49 is a climbing lilly, 'gloriosa superba', subtropical.
Nr 82 is a orchid, can't remember which one, but it is a beautiful one indeed.
Nr 104 is a hypericum-species. Normally, the seedheads are black or dark, but this one gets beautiful coloured ones.

Nice to read, that my photo's help you through a dull or early morning and that you enjoy what you see. Thank you!
Mike

Just beautiful. Your photos and garden are enchanting. Do you run your photos through a post processing program to give them such a beautiful artistic effect. They look like an impressionistic painting.

Mary

No, my photos are pure, without any post processing or whatsoever. I just try to catch reality in the early morning or late afternoon...
Mike