Patti, Your album is fantastic!!!! What gorgeous plants!

Ursula and Susan, your Iris are gorgeous!

These are relatively new gardens, only 4 years old...some parts far newer.

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Ursula, love your Before the Storm. My bearded iris were just beginning to bloom when we left for FL. Haven't seen my Before the Storm bloom in a couple of years but I am enjoying yours!

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Beautiful gardens Janice! Love the Foxglove!

sandnsea2, Thanks, you have done a lot in 4 years. I struggle to keep a few orchids alive inside, but do better outside. I mostly just go up and see Boojums for my orchid fix. Patti

Thanks, Carol. The foxgloves were direct seeded and surprised me.
Thanks, Patti. Yes, I am tired from all we have planted in 4 years.
It was a pretty clean slate when we arrived. Not to mention all the trees and shrubs we had put in.
This year I can rest, at last. Now it is just a matter of moving things around.
I jammed in all the things I just can't live without (a rather long list, I am afraid.). And sowed so many seeds that I can't remember what is coming up till it blooms, sometimes.
The other problem is, I am not from the South, thus unfamiliar with the native weeds. So I am sure I have pulled out some nice plants I thought were weeds, and vice versa!

Thanks.

Janice, it all looks so established and beautiful! You sure did a terrific job!
I too am very fond of the Foxgloves!

Thanks, Ursula.
It has been fun to learn how things grow in these parts.

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Janice and Patti, your gardens are absolutely gorgeous! Really inspirational!!

Regarding your gorgeous last picture - in a million years of trying, my borders would NEVER look like that.

Thanks, Kathy and Ursula.
It is a fun thing.
The English Cottage garden style makes it easy.
If you get a chance to see this British book ......English Cottage Gardens by Ethne Clarke & Clay Perry.
It is the very best, mind boggling photography.

I want that cottage too! I'll put it on my Amazon wishlist!