Dan

I'm curious, do you have a sprinkler system set up in the "North" garden?
:-)
Deb

Deb, the lower third part of the bed gets hit by the lawn sprinkler. I hand water the rest.

Don, starting on the left of the ones I can see in the photo,Golden Meadows, Brother Stefan, Ringtail, Little Sunspot, Clear Fork River Valley, William Lachman, Fire Island, Blue Mammoth, Whirlwind, Popcorn, Krossa Regal, Ice Age Trail, Bressingham Blue, Orange Marmalade, Touch of Class, Great Expectations, Cracker Crumbs, Marilyn Monroe, Liberty, Steve Moldovan, Striptease, First Frost (sporting a bit), Stained Glass, Blue Vision streaked, Abiqua Drinking Gourd, June, Risky Business, streaked seedling, and Fickle Blue Genes in the shadows. I moved a few this fall and rearanged things a bit. We'll see how it looks next year :)

Dan

Dan

Anyways Dan, you have the perfect combination of textures and colors there...even a good variety of small trees...By the way, are the hostas planted in spin-out bags?

bkay

cyn427 the bed is 11.5 feet front to back and the portion in the pic is 35 feet long.

Don, no I didn't use spin out bags. I agree Liberty is a standout and am equally surprised that it would make that type of category.

Thanks again for the nice comments!

Dan

Gesila

Thanks for the glimpse.

tj

Hi Phil, I actually much prefer the natural setting of your beautiful, serene, woodland garden to my more ornamental look. Unfortunately that look is not attainable on my small suburban lot. Guess we all want what we don't have :).

My spot is not exactly flat, but probably is in comparison to your steep hill. There is about a three foot grade change in the longer part of the garden and even more so as it extends to the West side of the yard, so I built some walls to compensate. Here is the most recent addition that Bernd mentioned earlier. It now houses way too many Hosta seedlings :)

and here's the bones of the garden before the hostas were planted.

Thanks again for the nice comments,
Dan

Really nice. Did you set the rocks into dry 'Quickcrete' and spray it down to set them? The second picture looks as if this is what you might have done

However you did it, you did a great job.

Jon

The first thumbnail pic is the most recent section. I'm running out of space.
It has seedlings tightly planted for now, but my hope is to eventually select a few favorites and plant it out in a more aesthetic manner. Here's a pic of what it looked like shortly after I planted last years seedlings. You can also see some more mature seedlings toward the left of the photo in a bed that was a previous addition. I also redid the top portion of the bed and the seedlings continue up and between the Acer shirasawanum 'Autumn Moon' and the Acer palmatum , 'Ryusen'.

Jon, the rocks are dry set. A trench is dug, filled with limestone screenings and the rocks are dry stacked with screenings between and behind and back filled with soil. I use less screenings and sometimes substitute sand behind the wall when Hosta are going in the bed because I worry about the alkalinity of the limestone. No ill effects so far though, and I have beds that are over ten years old and still look good.

Thanks for the nice comments everyone,

Dan