Thank you for posting, Lynn. Your plants look great! I think the white flower plant is a type of rain lily (Zephiranthes?) and the purple flower is an African daisy (Osteospermum?). However, what I like the most about your garden is your pond. It looks "squickly" clean. I know that is not the most natural look but I love it.

Omar

Love those spider lilies and the pond. Your photos are beautiful. The stripes in the 'daisy' are striking. Thanks for the post.

Thanks! My husband and son had just cleaned the pond last weekend. It was a LOT more natural (algae) looking before! I prefer clean to green! The yellow and orange zinnias are all gone. Today, for our anniversary, DH bought me $100 worth of pansies and potting soil from Calloways. It absolutely KILLS me to pull up healthy zinnias to make room for the pansies. Then in April it will kill me to pull up healthy pansies to make room for the zinnias! Annual! UGH! But they all would have died in a month anyway, right?

It all looks great! I had an African daisy survive for 2 or 3 years. But we have not had a killing freeze in several years.
Now for my unsolicited advice on your back rehab. Any time you are standing in the kitchen or bath room open a cabinet and put one foot on the lower shelf. This relieves the stress on your back. Any other time you have to stand for a while hold on to something for balance and put one foot on top of the other. Do not push yourself too fast. Believe it or not you will be able to bend again.
I have had back surgery 3 times.

Kathy

Your flowers are beautiful and your pond video turned out great.

Kathy, those are good tips for the back that I never knew. One very helpful bit of information that my chiropracter told me was that if standing in line for a long time try to lean on the wall.

Lynnmarie, thanks again for the eye candy.

Thanks for all the back advice! Today isn't one of my better days, so I'm stuck in bed all day. Oh well, what else was I going to do in the rain, right!

Love all the pictures

Your blooms are just gorgeous! I hope that you are back to yourself and feeling better soon!

Thanks for sharing your garden photos and good luck as your recovery continues. I had back surgery in 2009 and had excellent results.
Molly

Beautiful pictures of your flowers. Thanks for posting. I hope you recovery goes well. After I had back surgery, I would walk the pathways in the garden with a plant stake, pointing out weeds, and my wife would pull them up. That didn't last but a couple of weeks.

Jim

Ops, double post.

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I just love lycoris, they are popping up and blooming here too.
The last one, what is the name, cal...anyway, mine look just as bad. They usually start to look a bit better as the weather cools, I cut them back and in the spring they are gorgeous, then, straggly, few blooms,look dead.

Tally Ho!

Thanks everybody. I'm not 100% yet, but hopefully with PT I'll get there. Have to go back to work Monday. I tried pointing out weeds to my son, but it was hopeless, so I bought a weed pulling tool from amazon.com. It works like a charm and is fun to use. Now I get excited when I see weeds! I also got my DH and son to plant pansies for me. Some of the baskets are really coming in nicely.