Perennial bed

oh I love this flowerbed!!

I’ll be using this as an inspiration.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

One word … GORGEOUS!!!!

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Very nice…healthy looking plants.

-- Bob, Carver MA USA, Zone 6b, Annual Rainfall 48" http://capecodbaychallenge.org

Many thanks! We were blessed with good, deep, dark dirt in our beds. Full sun and a shot of Miracle Grow every 3 weeks or so.

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

we have great top soil in our region… and at my place, underneath that is some clay. When they dug the hole for our addition,... they put the topsoil at the bottom and the clay on the top when they smoothed it out around my yard… very good plan, don’t you think?

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

looks great! – too much sun for hostas? I thought those grew anywhere – perhaps they prefer a challenge in worse soil or conditions. The sand/salt trucks couldn’t kill (or even slow them down) them along the edge of the street at my brother/sister-in-laws old place.

-- southern NH. - smack dab in the middle of 5a and 5b - with lots of shade and full sun, in all the wrong places.

These particular hostas were inherited from my wife’s grandmother’s garden. The whole of this particular garden was VERY shaded, barely dappled sunlight made it through, and these hostas were huge. They made it maybe 1 1/2 seasons in our garden, but not for a lack of trying.

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

Hosta’s are one of my favorite plants. When we downsized into this house I brought my most cherished Hostas from my old yard. I just couldn’t bear to part with them. I too went from mostly a shade environment to full sun. I expected some burning on the leaves (which I did get) with the transition; but they did make it—bloomed and added girth. I watered them EVERY Morning … but am convinced it was the daily “pep talks” I gave them that kept them alive. :-)

Did anyone read about the Hosta that is being bred for sun?? Can’t remember where I read it.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

my parents Hostas are doing well… they get a lot of sun, but a fair amount of shade too… that is whatever they can keep the deer from eating.

-- southern NH. - smack dab in the middle of 5a and 5b - with lots of shade and full sun, in all the wrong places.

lambs ear is one of my favorites. I always plant it with the kiddos in my family, its my way of trying to get them to love playing in dirt and planting there own piece of the world as much as there silly aunt does.