Violet Green Swallow

This mama has been real busy keeping the mosquitoes down and feeding her young. I love it when she watches me weed, lol. The Valerian next to her about 7 feet tall with a great smell.

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New Blooms

Well the Lupine from my earlier post is about gone. Now we have the Lillies, Roses, Delphiniums, Lychnis, Aconitum and many others comming on.

Had to try this

I saw some cool slide shows so I'm trying to take my last post and make a slide show out of it. Hope it works lol. This is in respons to the Green leaf wave that is sweeping the Blotanical web site.

Shades of green and red

On her website "A nice green leaf" Emma Townshend http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/a_nice_green_leaf/index.html suggested we all show some of our favorite greens. Here are some of mine.

Here are a Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Fernspray Gold' and a Acer Palmatum 'Tsuma Gaki'.

Next we have a few Heuchera's. I don't remember all thier names.

Now we enter the land of Hosta's. I have a real passion for them.

Here are a few pictures of some groupings I like. I really love the Chamaecyparis Pisifera 'Cole's Prostrate' and the Acer Palmatum 'Red Dragon' which i showed in a previous post.







Shade beds offer something that you just can't achieve in full sun. I love the quiet serenity that these shades of red and green bring to my yard.

My latest kick

I'm on a huge tree and shrub kick lately. I have to blame a lot of it on work. We have need of many fine specimen plants and I get to research what we will be ordering. In the process I always fall in love with something. This season we ordered Acer Palmatum (Japanese maples) and a slew of cool stuff from Iseli's nursery. I couldn't help but get some goodies for myself. 3 Acer Palmatums, a Picea Glauca 'Pendula', a Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana Gracilis', Abies balsamea 'Nana' and a Chamaecyparis pisifera 'fernspray gold'. Their like my new children lol.

Lupine in my Loop Bed

My driveway loop has a full sun bed in it. The first picture shows Flathead Lake in the background. I just got the Picea Glauca /Pendula' fir tree in the foreground. I really like it. The second picture shows Cougar Canyon in the back ground.

Front yard

Here's a pic of part of my front yard. One of my favorite Japanese maples is by the pond. It's a "Red Dragon". The pond needs a bit of work. My inlet vase broke last winter. I made another but haven't fired it yet.