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  1. Ilona,

    Is that a paeony peeping through the ground?
    I had one in my London garden, none here so far. I’d need to find a variety that would tolerate the heat I think.

  2. your new montage stuff is so
    lovely…from a photograpic/visual
    collage eye, i would suggest that
    you arrange the photos a bit more by shape, and direction equally
    as much as for the color harmonies (which are gorgeous!)
    you’re an artist…its the oldest trick: if you stand back and squint, you can sometimes better see the small subtle interactions of horiz./vertical or narrow/wide shapes. it is very like hanging framed pictures and stuff
    on a big wall; there is an innate, visually pleasing order that our eye finds in choosing where to hang each one, so they relate as a whole… especially love the pic of the daffodil waves arching to the left…will you send me a
    pic? 30 degrees this AM %o
    love, -j.

  3. Joanne-thanks for the tips. I am so caught up in the technical part ( which still is not quite ‘down’ yet, to work on the balance/perspective part. I should probably try to get the arrangement to echo the golden triangle. I shall send you the full resolution pic of the daffodils to do what you wish with. 🙂

    Sheena- that IS a peony (paeony). I’m afraid that most years in Alabama won’t give the required cold dormancy…but y’all have camellias… and we can’t grow those here.

  6. TC- I use the Adobe Photoshop Elements at this time.

    Teresa, don’t you love the fragrance of peonies? My grandmother used to raise them for the florist trade I was told (but I was too little to remember). They do make wonderful cut flowers.

  7. I wanted so badly to really “get into” gardening this year; I began a garden journal, planted seeds and was so excited. Then, as sometimes happens, fate had another plan for me. My colon perforated and I became critically ill and I was hospitalized for two months and spent half a month in a nursing home. I am so hoping that next year things will go according to plan. In the meantime I am so enjoying your site; it fills a need I have for the beauty of gardens.