I love it, the color is great! Is it evergreen? I have a gold grass but it is not very big yet, gets 24-36 inches wide which is a bit more than I would like. (golden sedge). I just wanted something small that would add color and character and I think the Hak is looking better than what I picked out.

Susan,

For shadier areas that need brightening, I just love this one.



Great photos, everyone!

We're going to have to do some rock walls or planters here - I love the look of them more each year.

chelle, thank you! I like that too.

I think mine is All Gold too. Not evergreen in Z6a and last year half of one clump froze.I will be surprised if I see it this spring.

It's not evergreen period. The 'All Gold' gets 36 inches wide. and you listed yours as 'Stripe it rich' in 2008.




This one gets 16 inches wide, is this what you have?

Jo Ann,what an outstanding clematis!
Susan the color of your sedge would really light up a spot in the garden!
Chelle, I'm hoping you post more pics of your lovely garden

You must be right Virginiarose.I purchased it locally and must have added it to the database in '08.I like it with purplee hucheras of any type.

Sounds good Jo Ann, how big is it now?

Susie, thanks! It needs sun to be gold, the more the brighter. Without sun it is just a plain green.

My husband and I built the stone wall when we built the house (early 80s). All the rock came from a local river bed, which was a long and arduous task. I think we figured we picked up each rock at least 4-5 times. We were young and poor then, had much more time than money.

Yes, those are forget-me-nots. Later come calendulas, allysum, and what I thought were California poppies, but I think are some sort of field poppy - much taller than I had anticipated. This is my annual bed and changes up some each year. Had some borage show up last season, which was nice with the calendulas.

Tell me about your luck with alliums. I have ordered a couple novelties over the years and they either are very short lived, or they revert to some sort of plain onion which self-seeds everywhere. I know I've purchased some of the big purple drumsticks, but those ended up looking just like an onion, small balls of dirty white flowers. I also bought some sort of wild-haired looking allium and I think that one just didn't thrive. I'm always taken with them in photos but have never been able to get that look myself. ??

I just bought 3 haks this fall on clearance, hope they do well. I lost the tag, so don't know the cultivar. The Plant Farm (local nursery) had all grasses on sale for $3 per gallon. I went a bit nuts on that one...still trying to figure out where to put some tall maiden grass.

I have a Miscanthus I got on sale and sawed it in half, they are now huge and are part of my corner garden which I planted after a drunk driver plowed across the yard and hit the house. This garden was meant to be a pretty 'buffer zone', to slow down a car from hitting the house again. Hope it works!!

Thanks, Sue!



A mass of wildness.


A bit on the weedy-looking side, but this mixed bed of Campanula medium, shrubs, grasses and spring flowering bulbs are protecting the roots and trunk of my white birch. Mowers and string-trimmers stay clear!


One of the bridge walks. My goal is to eventually have lots of iris in between the hostas.


One of the newest rose gardens.


The red one is a climber. Here it is by the end of August.




Susan,
I love your grassy buffer zone!

The pretty, plumy grasses here help get me through the winter. I have some prominently placed in view of almost every window.

chelle, thank you! What is the variegated Hosta right up front. Love your roses and gardens.

Beautiful rose garden.I like the use of the branches in a tripod.

Chelle, What is that red Iris, very eye catching. Beautiful gardens.

Susan, your grass is pretty in your bed. What a mess that must have made when the car hit the house.

I also have the Aureola but its not as gold due to shade.






I tossed in a few extra shots of that area.

virginiarose said:...What is the variegated Hosta right up front.

Lost ID. Those plants are, or are children of, the same ones we started with here...15 years ago. They were probably part of a grab bag discount deal.

springcolor said:Chelle, What is that red Iris, very eye catching.

I hope it does well and multiplies rapidly!

Wow, really pretty iris. I have been toying with the thought of a memorial garden featuring iris and daylillies -- there are so many named cultivars I think I will be able to find one suitable for each of my friends/relatives who have passed on, and I could let it be a somewhat loosely structured area. So far on my list are Stacy Ruth iris (first names of each of my in-laws), Rusty Dupuis daylily (last name of my co-worker), Remembering Mom daylily, Just for Dad daylily, you get the picture... My favorite is Cuss a Blue Streak iris for the wife of our good friend who had a notorious potty-mouth. So far this is only in my head and on paper, but perhaps I'll get it started this spring. I haven't decided if I want plaques, or plant markers, or perhaps an item that brings back a memory (my folks were avid boaters, my coworker was an attorney) or even some sort of protected photo. Still thinking on it.

Great idea, Deb!


We used a bunch of different plants with "Innocence" in their names for our canine friends memorial garden.

I planted trees over our animals - dogwoods for the dogs, a redbud for a red pony, etc. Cats seem to just take themselves off to die when their time comes, don't remember burying any.

One more before we head over to Mom's for our New Year's Eve get-together. Yup, at 4:30 in the afternoon! We'll all be snoozing by 9:30 this evening...no late-night clock watching for us.