New Growth...the GOOD kind!

We planted some new stuff in our garden this year to help it fill out more and fill in some spaces with year round evergreens...and I just realized I didn't take a pictures of those plants.  Oh well, we planted three gardenia bushes along the back behind the rock , which you can barely see in this picture and then we transplanted some yellow flowers in front of the rock.

My hydrangea is looking so much better and bigger this year and may actually bloom for the first time in 3 years!

Here is our brand new rose.  The "Eyeconic Lemonade".  It's a small to medium sized rose with only about 15 petals.  They are a light yellow with an orange center and it smells amazing!

This is the "Trumpeter" and has a really nice scarlet orange color. It doesn't smell or anything but it will get you with it's thorns!

And here is the "Ebb Tide" rose that has about 35 petals per rose.  It's smells really nice too, like spicy cloves and has a deep plum color, or fuchsia color. 

Here are the hellebores plants that are overtaking and are almost bigger than the holly bush behind it that is supposed to be the focal point.

Here's what it looks like from the sidewalk.

And the side...

 And upclose and personal...

And the long and little side garden that gets all shade.  This area has issues and always looks unbalanced and boring.....

....but it's the perfect space for impatiens!  This was in 2010 and each one of those mounds is ONE flower...no joke!  I tried this last year and it didn't work because of the heat.

I love me some coleus and potato vine!