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teecee
honoured member
West Otago, New Zealand
29 Jun '06 9:08 pm
Liza, I can answer that one for you - Jacob's Ladder is Polemonium caeruleum, and guess what! It also comes in your favourite colour - white! 
The mystery3 plant is campanula persicifolia which also comes in blue and doubles.
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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Gorgeous!29 Jun '06 10:51 pm
Love all your beautiful blooms, especially your macro shots - colours so vivid and details perfectly captured! Your variegated impatiens in their lovely home looking healthy, reminding me of my failure with them! Last August, we bought 3 plants of different colours from a Highland resort dirt cheap (RM10.00) and they perished within 10 days of our lowland's heat, even before we can repot them! Love your canopy, perfectly stitched and your newly painted tyre planter! Thanks for sharing, dear Christopher.
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Polemonium.....1 Jul '06 5:08 am
Dear Teecee, thank you so much for your kind information! But you know what? I could never live without white,...and blue! My house inside has these two basic colours! Plus reds and greens here and there, like the garden! It is all so funny! Thank you again!
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GardenGnome
Happily Toiling Away
Regina, Saskatchewan
Update on the updates.4 Jul '06 8:42 pm
June is busting out all over! So much is happening around here, it's hard to keep you guys up to date. Pix I took the other day are out of date already. 
I got some good work done on my "Secret Garden" today. I am happy with what is done and tomorrow I will get some pix to show you fine people.
Just for fun I walked around and counted the planters. To my amazement, there are 64 official planters. Deb said a plant id a pot isn't a planter. There is a whole lot more if you count those. 
On with the show.
Christopher
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GardenGnome
Happily Toiling Away
Regina, Saskatchewan
The Secret Garden.5 Jul '06 7:20 pm
In the far back part of our yard, in a forgotten corner, the resident gnome has secretly been moving things about. Using found things, he has made a garden for himself.
While out with my camera, I happened upon it.
The Secret Garden.
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And there it was in all its rustic glory. You could almost take it for a pile of junk.
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An old truck's wheel rim, used for a planter. Portulaca and a lone Gazania fill 'er up.
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Old stair stringers for a garden border. The 4 Shasta Daisies across the back are rescued with an African Daisy in the center. Other wayward plants fill out the field.
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A somewhat rusty paint can holds Fan Flowers and Bidens. The bigger planter was made from an old pail and painted green, it holds Verbena. That's a Wild Daisy hamming it up.
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An old pipe in the corner has Violas growing out the end.
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This old gas can makes an interesting planter. Notice it still says "Danger" on the side. That's good as the Bidens threaten to take over.
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Two wall sconces, made from pieces of pipe flattened at one end, have Fan flowers and orphan Petunias.
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The second wall sconce. Deb wants me to make more of these.
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The iron post in the top center helps support the big fence to the left. On the right edge you can see the door to my shop. This pic was taken at 2 pm, with lots of nice cool shade. Not a gnome in sight, though.
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Inventively artistic gardening!6 Jul '06 2:38 am
Dear Christopher, watching your Secret Garden, I so much admired your inventive side of artistic gardener! So many beautiful pots planted with happy plants! Created out of old articles, used for all other purpose
except gardening!
And ALL your flowers are SO gorgeous in your previous post! I loved them as flowers and as beautiful photos! Such a big variety of colourful plants! By the way, I didn't know anything about the existence of dwarf Rudbeckias! Just lovely! Thank you so much!
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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
6 Jul '06 2:52 am
Great variety of lovely blooms, beautifully captured! Simply stunning, Christopher. Love to see your creativity and ingenuity in the secret garden too! Thanks for sharing them.
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GardenGnome
Happily Toiling Away
Regina, Saskatchewan
Your most welcome, my friends.6 Jul '06 5:10 am
This makes me so happy to share my little world with you all. Isn't it wonderful how the Internet makes us feel like neighbours, well, that's how I feel.
It's so much fun to share.
Thank you for responding to my posts.
Christopher
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Bambi
Slowly Learning Gardener
Kent, England
7 Jul '06 12:01 am
Christopher, your creativity amazes me every time! 
I particularly love the metal pipes that you have flattened at one end, they're like little envelopes with nature spilling out of the top!
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GardenGnome
Happily Toiling Away
Regina, Saskatchewan
Sunny days and too much wind!9 Jul '06 6:08 pm
Well our corn is finally in the ground. Our other gardens are really starting to look good. Only problem is the wind torturing the taller flowers.
now i am on to building our new ramp and deck in the front yard. I rented a jack-hammer and removed the old sidewalk. What a rotten job. 20 minutes of jack-hammering and all the rest of the day removing the rubble. I made a border for the new north fence garden out of bolder size lumps of concrete. Big whoop. 
Mom came back from a week trip today and was surprised by the new growth all around and the new secret garden, especially.
It's nice to have her back. We missed our resident expert.
Christopher
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Lots of buds. A little slow to open, but they are coming.
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We also have Crazy Daisies amongst the blooms.
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Deb's new friend is this Tuberous Begonia. A rare beauty.
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Another of mom's mystery flowers.
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I don't know what this is either, but it sure is pretty.
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Gate planter in the wind. We put stakes on the taller plants after this pic was taken.
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