Beautiful, as always, Roselee...............love walking through you garden with you.

Thanks for sharing some of the beauty of all your hard work!

Roselee, It is beautiful!

Roselee, It's all so interesting. Where ever do you get your lawn scuptures? I love your praying Madonna! Did you train it to grow that way? Your orchid blooms are so much larger than our tiny pink ones. Do you know the name of your variety? Ok, as DH so often reminds me, that's too many questions, lol. Thanks so much for the post.

Cool!

Omar

Beautiful, as always.

Thank you all for looking!

Sunnysa (Irene if I remember correctly?) I don't mind questions at all. The white orchid tree is Bauhinia forficata: Brazilian Orchid Tree. You don't see it much in nurseries, but maybe that will change with our climate getting warmer. Some sites rate it's hardiness to z. 11 and some to z. 9. When it was young I covered it with two quilts and wrapped the trunk during a hard freeze, Now I do nothing. It's also called the 'insulin tree' and the leaves are made into a tea for diabetes and other ailments. You can read about it online.

The Madonna image on the columnar cactus passed along by Tally is natural, but my husband said I didn't take the picture at the best angle. I'm tempted to notch the head portion to look more like a silhouette. Should I?

As for garden art I've had a lot of years to collect plus many have been gifts. Also I've been very fortunate in finding some things at garage sales in my own block. Recently a dear friend who is anticipating a move gave me some of the pieces pictured above for which I am very grateful. There are more that she gave me that I'll post about someday.

Roselee, it is all so very pretty. Thanks for the name of your orchid tree. The Madonna is perfect as is. It looks so natural. Your garden art is charming. I can't wait to see the rest of it.

Roselee, I have looked for that angel bird bath for years. Would you tell me where you purchased it?

Dachsylady, I bought the angel birdbath at Walmart quite a few years ago. But I'm pretty sure you can still get one at Fraziers Concrete which is located a few miles from Brenham, Texas. It is worth a drive to go there. They have acres and acres of beautiful statuary; much more than shows on their website.

Plus they are wonderful people to deal with. Since they have the mold they could make it for you if they don't happen to have it in stock. The one that my friend purchased from them is larger than mine pictured above.

Good luck! Let us know if you are able to get one from them.

Thank you Roselee!

beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing, looks like eden!! question, what are the grasses in the left center in the first picture? i don't grow any as i get so confused as there are so many! i am in dallas, fyi.

Ingridjill, thank you. The grass in the left center is Crystal ruby grass. It's an annual most years, but usually seeds itself around. The seedlings can be transplanted to where you want them.

My favorite grass is Little Bunny Dwarf Fountain Grass shown on the right of the first picture. It's perennial, blooms very early to very late in the year and is tolerant of most any conditions, but loves full hot sun. It's hardy zone 5 to 9 so should do well in Dallas.

I love how easy it is to put links in our posts with Houzz. I never knew how to do it before.

Happy gardening!