Very Nice. I really like the rocks behind the ferns.

Omar

Pam, awesome.........you have really been busy, and everything looks just wonderful. Thanks for posting these.

Thanks y'all!

Carrie, just keeping the oak seedlings plucked out is a full time job! I really love the plants that you have shared with me!

Omar, that's a water feature that we built. We are very DIY, with a small budget and love water features. We had a rock that had been hollowed out on top with a channel drilled for tubing and we placed it over a rubbermaid tub buried underground, topped with a grate and hidden with the river rock. It's one of my favorite things :-)

Pam your gardens are really looking good. I think you have found the perfect place for your hydrangea. Your mystery plant is Pink Knotweed Persicaria capitata. I grow it in a shade garden. I've read that it can be 'aggressive', but it's not in my garden.
Jim

Pam, there is something so peaceful and so right about your woodland garden. Everything looks so 'in place'. I too love your use of stones and driftwood. Thank you for discribing your water feature.

Of course, I also like your found pieces, like the iron bed. I love your backlit photos of the morning glory, and your photos of the butterflies and caterpillars. It's great that you got the pond liner. I see you have beautiful water lilies waiting for the pond. You have a great collection of plants both native and improved.

I also have and love the Pink knotweed and neither do I find it invasive. It's a great groundcover and works where it can hang over the edge of a pot too.

It's so good to see pictures of gardens we haven't seen before like yours and Omars. I hope others will be inspired to post pictures of their gardens also.

Thank you for your comments and the ID on Pink Knotweed. I find the 'knots' so cute!

The hydrangea was a re-gift from my mother in law, it was near death and barely survived the first couple of years until I found 'the spot' that it wanted to live in.

PK, I really enjoyed your garden photos...especially your woodland garden. I laughed a little when I saw the "weed" with the blue flowers because I also have them and have a love/hate relationship with them. Thanks for sharing your garden pictures!
Molly

I want! Especially loved the orange daylillies and the puple basil. I've never seen that before.

Lynnmarie, I'll be happy to share. The basil is really invasive though. I drive through the metroplex 4 days a week for work. Email me and we'll figure something out.

When one applies the following test: "if you pull on it & it comes up, you shoulda kept it - if you pull on it & it won't come up, its a weed" one learns that it is, indeed, a weed. I've got it in my lawn, of all places, and it Will. Not. Pull.

I probably wouldn't mind having it somewhere else. :)

But at least in the lawn, you can mow it !!!!

it smells really good when you mow it :-)