Wow! That is truly beautiful. I was especially drawn to the the red Plumie and the hugeantic L. Guara. I also appreciate seeing the entire bed with added closeups. I'm a shameless copycat :).
I'll probably copy the crane statues once my mini rainwater retention pond is finally finished. I like the way she positioned them closer together.
That is one cute blue merle Doxie puppy. That blue eyed baby looks very proud of it's squirrel prowess.

This is a picture of all 3 of my dogs, Dottie's, and her parents. Frank the dad is taking a siesta on the couch. Out of 5 puppies, 3 had blue eyes, Dottie was the only one with long hair. Barbra

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Frank is a real charmer. I never could resist a handsome guy that *winks*. Dottie doxie (lol) is a really pretty dog. You must have surprised to get that many blue eyed puppies from brown eyed parents. Long haired doxies are the prettiest to me. Those are really nice looking dogs.

Thanks, I really enjoyed looking at all the gardens with Roselee. We got to go to the botantical garden in Corpus Christi. It was worth going just to see those hugh plumeria trees. The smell was just heavenly. Barbra

maybe ya'll can come to my place next year. I should have some flower beds built by then.
pa

PA, build them and we will come! :-)

I was asking Barbra if she knew when you'd be moving there. What a beautiful place to live and garden! I bet you can hardly wait to get started.

EWWW just gorgeous!!! What a fun trip that must have been.
I love all your flowers. The red passion vine is Lady Margaret and it blooms later here. What is a Cherokee Rose?

Wish I could walk through your yard. Now why can't you live closer?

roselee
our target is the end of june. I'm closer to aransas pass than to rockport.
pa

Carol, that is a hibiscus mutabalis aka confederate rose.
They sure bloom earlier down there. Mine here usually blooms in late july...ish.
My grandmother had a huge one in Brownsville.

Mine don't bloom until early Fall..........what a difference climates can make !!!
BTW, beautiful pics of a beautiful garden...and yes, they are ALWAYS "a work in progress" !!!

I took cuttings from the bottom of this confederate rose before we left, and stuck them in the ground. That is how my neighbor does it. I hope to have these to take to the Oct plant swap in San Antonio. Keeping my fingers crossed. Sometimes chickens, sometimes feathers. Barbra

I wish I'd taken a picture of Barbra's neighbor's Confererate rose. It was a huge bush, almost a tree but with foliage to the ground; and had very large blooms all over it. From a distance they look like roses.

Thanks for the tour, Roselee. Barbra your garden is really looking good! You have a beautiful place.
Jim

Thank you Kathy. I have a double althea that looks a little like the confederate rose but with a smaller bloom.

What a treat to see all these great pics. Thanks Roselee.
Good job Barbra.

Beautiful! Thanks for posting photos of Barbra's yard!

Beautiful gardens, thanks for posting.

I'd love to know the name of the canna with dark leaf and red flower. It's one Barbra brought to swap and is already blooming here, very pretty flower and foliage.

I got it at Lowes, the tag on the side just said canna. I got it because of the leaves. It was a slow grower at first, I was suprised to see a red bloom, I was expecting to see dark yellow, like the tropicanna bloom. Barbra

Thanks Barbra. I love the leaves too and already have one bloom on them. The Siam hybrid canna is doing really well and I can't wait to see those beautiful blooms.

Just planted a shipment of Stuttgart and Pretoria cannas from the Brent and Becky's half price sale. Those are mostly for foliage though.

Beautiful garden Barbra! I can't believe that you are only there part time! That red leaved crinum is spectacular!

If I lived there I would get into Aloes BIG TIME

Did you want me to bring a giant red leaf crinium to the plant swap for you? Barbra