Where the Mind Turns to in Winter

Last week was a week of winter winds and snow with chilling temperatures.  My mind turns to the beautiful flowers of spring and I found myself in Wisteria Heaven.  

This is the longest wisteria in Niagara - it's in Jordan Village and is more than 100 feet long.  This panorama was stitched together with more than 10 pictures.

One of the most famous Wisteria gardens is at Longwood, near Philadelphia PA.  The wisterias are trained into graceful trees.

My Hosta Fantasy

l cut off most of the hosta flowers along the front garden this year.  With the mass showing, the weakness in their colour and uprightness is glaring.  By weakness in colour, I mean the light lavender colour.  It seems to take away from the green shades that contrast and complement each other.  In addition to that I have intense orange begonias and coleus to complement the colour of the front door and the yellow bricks.  As white would do wonderfully, perhaps I'll concentrate on some more Royal Standard Hostas for a nice end of season show.  And they have a beautiful fragrance, too.

So today, I worked a little in photoshop and turned the hosta in the foreground of this beautiful rural garden in Grimsby to a more pleasing shade.  I would like to try out a Crocosmia orange, but didn't manage to get photoshop to get to that colour.  If anyone knows the technique, I would appreciate a comment or a link.

Here's that lovely winding path with the pergola destination.