Now I'll post a few other pictures of areas we have been working on.
My son laid the chopped stone around the beds and planted the plants. In this picture all of the plants are new. There is a variegated ginger in the back that will grow quite large. Also there are large Liriope and another smaller vairety called "sun proof" variegated Liriope. Also there is taro and caladium.
We already had the Crape Myrtle but I planted some vinca around it a few weeks ago.
This bed is still a work in progress. It gets shade for the majority of the day. Don't look at the grass, it has been beaten up over the past few months of people working on it while doing the deck, arbor and pond. I still don't know what I'm going to put around the Japanese Maple. All of the plants were already there but were dug up and replanted except for the caladiums. I still have hosta's and other plants to replant as you can see some of them in a large mound in a couple of the pictures.
And last but not least, here is a bed that was created when we built the pool. We have tried so many things in this area, bamboo included. Nothing seemed right. I have changed it every year. This time I am trying Lily of the Nile. In this area it will come back next year (sometimes). We'll see if it does. It is looking a little wimpy at the moment.
