These are just random shots I took.

Okay, that is it for now. I'm on overload LOL.

Alot more changes coming this season. Just waiting for spring to arrive again.

Julia

So much color and so much space! That clematis defies description! Thank you for sharing these beauties on this cold snowy day here in the frozen north! Love it!!

Ginny

Nate

Jean

The clematis is Comtesse de Bouchaud that I got many years ago. I am ashamed to admit I didn't take care of it like I should have until last year. It is such a beautiful clematis when in full bloom.

The Iris are all bearded ones of varying heights but they increase like rabbits. Last year I must have given away 100's and still have too many of the same ones so need to thin them out again this coming year after bloom season. I'd love some tall yellows with lots of ruffles or two-tone ones with purples/pinks/creams etc.

Thanks to all of you on this forum and on ATP which have given me more great ideas to add this coming season. Your gardens inspire me!

Julia

I do hope others will post their gardens, and how they evolve from one season to the next.Gotta have something to look at while waiting for spring to arrive ;-).

Julia

shive: I too love the bee balm and those coreopsis come back year after year after year. Amazing.

I hope others will start posting their gardens....please. I need to get through 2 more months of winter here.

Julia

Ed: Yup, it can get cold here but this year its been unusual. One day it can be in the single digits and the next back in the 40's. One day snow flurries and then we get rain which eliminates any snow cover. No snow cover now as we had rain again.

pmermakov: I'll have to stop in again on the Clematis forum.

Julia

Not much snow here either, outside Buffalo, NY ... it will be interesting to see how the daylilies do this summer since they are used to being under a blanket of snow all winter.

You can also back up your pictures to disk ... I try to do that a couple of times a year ... along with all my Master Dayliliy lists.

Pam: There are trees but nothing within 50 feet of the house. My husband is adamant about that. Most of the heavy woodlands are in the hedge rows. I did though save some trees that grew in the fields and replanted nearer to the house area and bought a few ornamental trees.
Still not alot of snow here this winter. Will February be our wintry month?

flowergirl929: That clematis is several years old. Planted in full sun with just the base mulched but I've read on the clematis forum others recommend Comtesse and I have to agree with them. Have you tried that one? I did have trouble with it showing yellowing leaves but once the flowering started, you didn't even notice it. Hopefully this year, it will not yellow again like this past year. Something to do with deficiency but you wouldn't think so looking at it in full bloom and it blooms a long time to.

I need to pick up some extra USB Data Traveler Memory Sticks to back up my pics. Been reading about External Hard Drives and how they don't always work properly so maybe not the best solution. The USB Flash Drive seems to be the better solution for me.

Julia

Those flowers in the other pics are beautiful, so full and
happy looking. Keep your picks coming, we love them.

Kay/phal

Interesting ... 50 feet. I'll take my chances, love the shade I get in the summer, and the wind break in the winter.

Pam: I sometimes wish I had more but am happy to give the perennials the full sun they want ;-). I have a nice front porch facing north so it stays shaded most of the day when I am gardening out front and a maple and pines plus a pergola in the back when I feel a need to get out of the sun.

Julia