Real garden photos today

The back deck looks like a great place to gather! Your flowers look good!
May you be blessed with a joyful safe weekend!

Love the new pictures today. I wish my potted plants looked that good! Love the area next to the trees! Beautiful as usual.

Thanks Ginny, I think that is the Lasagna garden.

Nice garden photos today, Jo Ann.
I wanted to comment on your paintings...many of us can grow nice looking plants and put together nice looking gardens, but I know of only one who can create beautiful paintings, and that person is you.

Jeanie. Thanks for the compliments. Painting is very important to me

No new blooms today.
The last of the Before and Now collages.
The West Garden where I started when I first moved here.
The Juniper hedge was so high I couldnt open bedroom windows. Landscapers cut them down and removed 8 root systems. I had a yard or two of compost. This property is Clay. All plantings needed to be amended.



The Woodswalk Garden After two seasons of nearly falling on the slope,I had a stone path and steps put in giving the garden a Left and Right side.
The 2009 image are stones laid on the ground.They had a tendency to slip.

It is always nice to be able to see accomplishments! You have a accomplished alot of good things! May you be blessed with a wonderful week!

The good,the bad and the disappointing.
These are some imaages of full shots of a couple of gardens

Shade Garden with broken Platycodon Woodchuck pulls them down to eat.






Bathroom window garden dried up and deer nipped altho there are some phlox David blooms, must be the deer are off somewhere else for a week and allowed the phlox tomake new buds and blossoms.

Jo Ann despite the critters the garden was still a success in our eyes

Thanks, I am getting used to it. This is the time of year everything goes to seed and dormant.
Next year will be different. I am used to encounters with the woodchuck also.
I am ordering a "Crop Cover " for next years deck vedg garden in my Earth Boxes.

Even though your garden is winding down for the season and the critters did some midnight snacking, it looks good. Many blessings for a wonderful safe week!

This mornings DeckShots.










Just sempervivum containers

Lots of containers. Looking good Jo Ann !

We are at the end of summer but the heat and lack of rain still persists.
Deck Containers. Probably the last

Your artistic flair is everywhere! You have so many interesting areas to look at all over your deck and yard! I could look for hours and still find something I had not seen before! My favorite gardens always contain interest and you get a A+! Many blessings to you and your family for a wonderful safe month!

Sharon, In spite of planting everything,I feel the same way. I always see some new arrangement that looks different depending on the day.

Altheabyanothername said:Your artistic flair is everywhere! You have so many interesting areas to look at all over your deck and yard! I could look for hours and still find something I had not seen before! My favorite gardens always contain interest and you get a A+! Many blessings to you and your family for a wonderful safe month!

beautiful

I agree also. And in spite of the very challenging season you have experienced, your gardens and containers are still beautiful

Comparing the scene to this time last year there isn't much change.