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Loaves and Fishes is one of Karol Emmerich's lovely purple daylilies. What I love is that, while other daylily blooms might be splotched due to thrip damage, the blooms of Loaves and Fishes are always perfect.

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Oy Vey is the odd name of a striking pink daylily introduction by Paul Owen. It is a strong grower and increases well. I do like this daylily.

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Jolly Good Fellow blooms and blooms and it blooms a lot. A Don Herr daylily introduction, this daylily is a stunning garden performer. Flowers always look perfect.

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Star of the North is an exceptional garden plant that increases like gangbusters. An Emmerich daylily introduction, it is never bothered by pests or problems. Looks stunning in a clump.

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Stunningly colored daylily bloom. Hot Tamales and Red Hots sure is well named as that color fits the name perfectly. A strong grower which increases well. I love this daylily.

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Autumn Joy is one of the older Sedums in my garden. Like all of the upright Sedums, it is very attractive to honey and bumble bees, butterflies, and other pollinating insects.

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I have six Champlain rose bushes growing in a row of pots alongside a shrub border. I have had them now for years. They do tend to get powdery mildew if they are not sprayed with fungicide. Otherwise, they are carefree and bloom a lot.

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Gizmo has a small single bloom in a lovely orange-red color. It is a strong bloomer in my garden and it also likes to set an abundance of small rose hips.

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I bought seeds of this variety from Renee's Garden Seeds and started the sunflowers earlier in the spring. Then I also started a second crop for fall blooming. They look like the typical cheerful yellow sunflower blooms.

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Morning glories are a fast growing annual vine that self seed in my garden. While my originally planted morning glories were blue, the flowers on the volunteer plants are all colors of the rainbow except blue. I guess if I want blue flowers, I will have to plant them myself.

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The summer blooms of Ruby Spice Clethra attract all sorts of pollinators, from bumble bees to wasps, all of which flock to the sweetly scented flower spikes. Clethra grows well in either sun or shade, but it seems to need more water in a sunnier location.

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I feel this plant has no ornamental garden value. Most of us do classify it as a weed, but the ripe berries are a much preferred food source of fruit eating songbirds, such as mockingbirds.

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I like hot colors and I am partial to red flowers, so it's no surprise that I love Olallie All Summer. It is a plain bloom, but it just keeps pumping out those blooms for a very long time.

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Goldwest is a solid bright-yellow Greigii division tulip. It is one of the taller greigii tulips. If you need a perennial tulip that comes back reliably year after year and you like yellow, then I suggest you plant Goldwest. I love this tulip. It is so pretty.

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Crocus blooms always mean spring to me. While it is true that each individual bloom is not very large or too spectacular, a carpet of crocus blooms is a stunning sight.

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Colour Spectacle is well named as this tulip really puts on a show. The colors change as the flower ages, but they are stunning at any stage of bloom. Colour Spectacle is a bunch-flowering tulip with many flowers on each stem.

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For many years these tulips came up each spring in my garden. I finally lost them due to garden renovations. This fall I am planting new bulbs of Angelique that I hope to enjoy for years to come. Angelique is a double soft-pink tulip with the most lovely blooms.

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This is a lovely and tall large-bloomed red tulip. I planted Red Impression in combination with some daffodils at the edge of my driveway. I like these big red tulips so much that I bought more Red Impression bulbs and I will be planting them this fall.

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A couple of days ago, my husband and I were talking about September 11, 2001 and the fact that the twelfth anniversary is next Wednesday.

I told him that on that Tuesday morning twelve years ago, after I dropped him off at 8:15 am at the airport (he was an airline pilot with Comair until it closed last September), I went to Lowe's and bought 4 one-gallon pots of 'Black Hills' Spruce.

I planned to plant them along one side of our yard for privacy. Sometime that fall, I got all 4 planted -- 3 in the back yard and 1 in the front yard.

One of the trees died a year later, but that was o k with me, as I was going to be the one planting them and figured if I went small and cheap, that if one died, I wouldn't be out much.

As I looked at the 3 trees this September, twelve years later, I noticed one of them has several cones and is doing good, one is the tallest & widest of the three and doing great (also closest to the outside faucet) and the last one is on the small size, but growing. It's next to the one that is the tallest & widest, so that may be why it is stunted.

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Personally I find the plant attractive, whether in berry or not. Its tendency to pop up everywhere means I yank it where I find it. There's plenty of other food for the birds, so they have to make do. The Flora of North America provides a brief description of the toxins and effects associated with P. americana.

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