Sharon: Thank you so much for this wonderful garden tour!

Jo Ann: Your gardens are a work of art, a masterpiece of so many interesting and lovely plants! I so enjoyed the tour so much that I'm going back to gaze at your beautiful photo's again ... Great Job!

Wow is right. Amazing what you have done. The placing of plants is beautiful, the colors are wonderful.
Thank you Sharon and Jo Ann for this garden tour full of eye candy.

What a huge garden! Great tour. So many plants to look at and you have a done a great job with you colors. Awesome!

love the tour!!.. JoAnn you are the greatest!!

Beautiful gardens! I love all your lilies

Thanks for your comments everyone. I had no idea just how compulsive and obcessive gardening could be until I had this space to fill.
Many gardeners have helped with plants and advise.

Every inch of your garden is just beautiful, it must be wonderful just to walk around and enjoy everything that you have done.

JoAnn, what a beautiful oasis you've created! I just love all your lilies. Isn't it amazing how a person can never have enough plants.

JoAnn, I am always happy to visit your special garden. Best show ever. Your tree peony is awesome. Patti

Hi Patty: Thanks. You have been a big help if you didnt realize it.

I couldn't have said it better. Wow is right! You pack so much into the beds you have and everything just grows so well! Every picture is just beautiful with no background clutter. I couldn't find a more restful place to meander!

I've seen bits and pieces, but I am amazed at what you have done.

PS, adore the bear :o)

Sally

Jo Ann, Thanks for the compliment. I think seeing anyone's gardening projects helps. I have gleaned so many ideas from so many posters in bits and pieces that I feel like my garden is actually is an amalgamation of many other peoples gardens, including yours. And, I too want that bear!

I am up to my eye balls designing a new kitchen, bath, laundry, and dining space in our VT house that I am not on line much. The old space was rotten to the core and close to being dangerous. So when not in the garden, kitchen or studio, I have been glued to my desk drawing up the blue prints.

I am going to try to follow your lead and make the knobs for the cabinets as well as glaze back splash tiles for the kitchen. I found some hardware at the ceramic supply store that makes attachment easy. I am going to cheat and buy commercially made bisque tiles and just glaze them, either 4" or 6" white stoneware. I have a glaze kiln to fire on Oct 11, so I am going fire some test tiles at that time and hopefully find the right colors and a pattern that I like to use. This idea may be a pipe dream, but thought I should give it the old college try.

I have been putting up veggies, making jelly and starting to put the beds to bed before our big bulb planting. I went hog wild as usual with the bulb orders. Today we made a ginger, apple, hot pepper and basil jelly and some jars of a sun-gold tomato and basil conserve and then we pickled some green cherry tomatoes. Tomorrow is salsa day! Then I worked on getting the green house ready for winter. I cut back all my hippeastrums, now close to 75 of them, and then I pruned back a bunch of the bedded plants and an out of control jasmine vine, so the GH is now ready to have all the potted plants brought back inside from the porches. I have my dear friend coming from Brooklyn to visit on the 17th who said he would be happy to help with that back breaking job. Love those kind of friends.

I will post the results of my firing projects next week. Can't wait, but terrified as I am suppose to be in a Dec pottery show in Boston and I need everything to fire well enough to sell. I also need to produce another kiln worth of work asap. I guess I need to find a few more days in the week.

Here is part of our blank canvas. Not pretty now, but it will be, hopefully especially with the knotty pine gone for good. Patti