What's making your garden shine at the moment?

[Chippychop]

I'm just back from holiday and my garden looks a mess.. Granted the grass needs a good cut and the weeds had grown but the garden looks a bit bare and land. The garden is only 3 yrs old (building site beforehand) so it's a work in progress. I've got shrubs and herbaceous plants mainly - and I do need to add more but I could do with some colour or something - any good ideas?

probably Stacey although 'wedding veil' and 'bridal veil' are pretty similar (I should know really, I did plant it )

I love aquilegias so I don't mind them spreading, I dig them up occasionally and give them away to people

Or is it spirea niponica " snowmound " ???

Everything in my garden is coming out at once. My berberis looks stunning. I may get another as the orange is such a bright, cheerful colour. The dicentra are out which is brilliant as it is one of my favourite plants. My pieris are finally flowering and showing their new red leaves. The camellia has finally come out and has got more flowers than ever before but it is a really wishy washy pink colour so I may pass it on to someone. My spirea is also out but looks nowhere near as good as cathpips. The granny bonnets are shooting madly and spreading everywhere. I found one fritillary today. I planted 50 bulbs and one has come up!!

I need to sort out the pots by my front door as they had narcissi in them but they had all gone to seed now.

At the moment my forget-me-nots are looking stunning and really cheering the flower bed up! I'd forgotten how much I love them. Also, two bleeding heart plants (one pink, one white) are brightening up a very shady corner.

And it's not showy, but a rhubarb I thought we'd destroyed when hacking out a dead tree stump has sprung quite spectacularly into life, and I'm quite pleased with how well it's doing despite severe neglect!!

Next year (it's our first year living in the house - so garden is very much a work in progress) I should hopefully be admiring a magnolia, a flowering currant and a load of grape hyacinth, tulips and daffodils...

My herb garden is looking super - it was looking quite tired a while ago. I've just planted a bunch more heucheras under my Acers, which look super next to the tiarellas.

pieris, tulips, forgetmenots, astrantia, frillary, primroses, cherry, clematis alpina, aubretia, azaleas, clematis montana, geranium cranesbill, hellebores, japonica, magnolia stellata, vinca,

Dd had a birthday party this afternoon so we dropped her off and went to the garden centre for an hour of pure bliss! We went a bit mad and came home £100 poorer but with a great haul of plant to fill some of the gaps in our rockery and tops of the walls. We got 5 auberitas, 2 different types but both purple. They will go on rockery and into the stone wall itself. 4 Athemis - look like bushy tumbling daises. We will plant one on the top level of the rockery and 3 around the base of the tree in the middle of the garden, 1 classic pink geranium for a pot on the deck, 1 trailing verbena for another pot and a wonderful lollipop tree shaped chrysanthum with white flowers that look like daisies - I really love it! We got some plant food, organic slug pellets and 2 mugs of tea and two cakes in the lovely cafe and we celebrated being middle aged

Dh is planting as I type! I am so excited as this is the first year our garden is really thriving and it is looking fabulous!