Giverny "Portrait of the Waterlilies" -- This second garden video was also "panned" from our car. Unlike the 1st video, we filmed the video later in the day (3:30 p.m.) traveling in the opposite direction -- first moving westward on Fifth Street, starting at the back alley and aspen grove, and then turning left onto Adams street, finishing at our waterfall/rail fence. The optical quality is somewhat improved since we used manual focus (rather than auto) and we utilized a large piece of cardboard -- extending from the car roof to shade the handycam from sun glare. We are learning from our experiments, experiences, successes and failures!! In our "moat" of flowering plants, which pretty much surrounds our house, the "stars" which yield the most kaleidoscopic "flower power", have to be the annuals -- most of which bloom the entire growing season -- until the first hard frost. The top "performers" to us, are the petunias -- especially the very beautiful, vigorous Supertunias (i.e., Bourdeaux; Royal Velvet; Citrus; Vista Bubblegum; Vista Fuchia; and Vista Silverberry. Other excellent petunia cultivars are Shockwave Denim; Wave Purple; and Tidal Wave Silver. Almost all of our annuals (except the Proven-Winners Supertunias) are started from seed by us in our basement "climatron" -- starting about mid-February. For artificial light, we use 45 standard fluorescent shop lights and 18 energy-efficient 300W compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). From February to May, we produce over 2000 healthy annual seedlings for our "SunnyView Gardens." If there is any interest we will present more horticultural details in future videos! Any questions? No! We don't grow any medicinal herbs in our basement!! To most easily view our gardening videos/slide programs, please Google the phrase: kimball ne meyers gardens

Mozart's Symphony #40 This video was "shot"/panned from our slowly moving car -- traveling first northward down Adams Street and then turning right onto Fifth Street. This corner-lot, streetside, cottage garden consists of about 80% perennials and 20% annuals. The dominant perennials now include: Daylilies; Gloriosa Daisies; Oxeye Daisies; Shasta Daisies; Russian Sage; Purple Cone Flowers; Roses; Achillea; Delphinium; Veronica; Phlox; Hosta; Hardy Asiatic Lilies; Monarda; Geum; & Ornamental Grasses. Our annuals presently in bloom include: Petunias; Impatiens; Foxglove; Geranium; Bacopa; Zinnias; Alyssum; Lobelia; Salvia(red and blue); Bidens; Diamond Frost; African Daisies; Cosmos, Marigolds, Dwarf Purple Castor Beans; Purple Fountain Grass & Fever Few. The addition of a few "flower-power" videos to our kimbnebritelites YouTube site should demonstrate to viewers that the Meyers not only love to decorate their home and yard with LED "blossoms of light" during the Holidays, but also with thousands of colorful blooms during the growing season. If you look closely at this video, you will notice some LED strings and ornaments hanging from some trees. Every evening during the warmer months, we have at least 5,000 LEDs lit up for several hours, especially over our front-yard, pondless waterfall. We will be uploading another flower-garden video in a few days. In our spare time, we have started to build LED panels/set pieces for our goblin/ghost-singing Halloween Musical Light Show!! To most easily view our gardening videos/slide programs, please Google the phrase: Kimball ne meyers garden Thank you!