Thanks, Paul. Many of the combos are pure serendipity, but I do try to make nice groupings when I think of it. I have worked for many years in fiber art and design, along with some experience in floral design, so my eye is always searching for a pleasing arrangement.
Here's a whole plant shot of Cascades. It's just a dynamite plant, but a little hard to place, since it's such a head-turner. I have to peel my eyes off it to look at the nearby plants.
Reldon, that Sea Gulf Stream has been a little slow to take off, but last year it was looking pretty good. Should be even better this year! It's right in front of a big Reptillian, and between the two of them are at least 30 or 40 seedlings. I let most of the grow there for 2 years, and this year I'll have a lot of excavating to do to get them out of there. There are a couple that I will probably set aside to grow on, the others...who knows? Maybe they'll go out to the windbreak to join the survival of the fittest out there.
Here's the next section of that bed. For some reason, I sort of skipped over a huge Gunsmoke( you can see it looming in the background of the Sea Gulf Stream picture), a hosta I cannot look at without thinking of my dad, who missed out on most of the original episodes of Gunsmoke, the series, because he was working nights. He was so tickled to find all of them replayed once he got cable when he moved to town. He watched it every day when he sat down for his afternoon 'nap'.
Northern Exposure is the show-off in this bed, and there's Sleeping Beauty, Maekawa, a no-name that doesn't seem to be Rickrack, and then a bit Satisfaction looming in the background.
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We're at -2 here this morning, and I'm finding it harder and harder to imagine that these scenes in my garden will ever reappear!
Linda P
It doesn't look like me at all...
I really love Skylight and Frilly Boy! Thanks for sharing some lovely green. 
