Fantastic stuff everyone! (sorry I'm late to the party)
Looking good Neal
I'm so glad you had such a positively giddy day--oh wait, that's on that other thread, but whatever--I'm still so glad for you
and, Yay bees!!!
Annette, You have such a gorgeous place! I too am jealous of your 'backgrounds'--that's why I take mostly close ups and have such odd framing for so many pictures
like this--crocus--with two fire hydrants, the streetcorner, the street, the stop sign, and the neighbor's driveway and garage missing
Ann, I have tried for 8 years to have symmetry on either side of my front porch, which faces SW. Planted the same stuff, same day, same everything, every iteration. It doesn't work. The most striking example--I have a big flat rock, roughly about three and a half ft squarish, off the side walk with gardens on either side. Same stuff, same everything, three and a half feet away from each other--different schedule, some died, some thrived, and I have two similar but different gardens, now. Interestingly, the plants on the north and west side of the rock are earlier in the spring than the ones on the south and east side. I figured it out by watching how the snow melts--the rock heats up and radiates heat to the NW. I don't know why/how it works that way there--seems like it all gets the same amount of sun to me and I would have thought the south side would heat more, but the snow always melts first on the NW of that rock. And of course, this is the exact opposite of what I get just a few feet away at the porch gardens--the south side is always first, and dries out the worst, and gets way more sun than the west side
of course there's a big porch in the way and some trees at play.
So--I give up. I'm redoing the porch gardens this spring. And I have no illusion of symmetry.
