This garden is a large circle surrounding the circular walls of the 2 dipping pools, reflecting pool, and seating tower ( which is the garden shed underneath.) Shrubs were planted 3 years ago, and perennials added within the last year.

The next bloomers are yellow daisy-like flowers on several different perennials and pink echinacea. Against the rubble stone wall of the pool-housee, are gooseneck loosestrife, artemesia lacaflora, and cimicimfugas (all white); dark pink lychnis coronaria (rose campion) continues to bloom, as long as it is deadheaded. The daylies are at their peak, but some will emerge later and bloom into mid september. The dog, Henry, is not a permanent part of the garden.

The daylilies colors have moved from yellows to reds, and the first violet-pink asters are lining the path. Many smaller infill plants are blooming at the edges, such as stargazer lilies, a creeping campanula with pink flowers, several types of low sedum, and baby variegated hostas. Amaranth "love lies bleeding" hang from 3 tall woven boxes, which fence off the pool area next to the solar collector from the path. This area is covered in medium size stones with euonymus shrubs in buried pots; a small step arrangement allows someone access to one of the pools, through this deliberately rough area.As some of the plants grow quite tall, they reinforce the low colored walls of the pool enclosure.

The last spurt of daylilies are dark pink set against the now fully bloomed violet-pink asters, and in sharp contrast to the yellow daisies. Turtle-heads (chelone obliqua) flower next to tall pale mallows. Ligularia dentata flowers yellows on purplish-green foliage; buds of blue-purple asters are opening. Finally chocolate eupatorium and Montauck dasies open their white flowers against the autumnal background.

Next a band of pink dianthus flowers emerge from the silver balls of the foliage. Varigated loostrife makes an outer band with yellow flowers begining to open on them. From the decks above the garden one can see how the pink band relates to the magenta wall and the yellow band relates to the green of the outer landscape circle. As the pernials grow up, height differences become apparent, the taller ones marking special places relating to path entrances.

The first blooming of the garden comprises yellow euphorbias, pink miss kim lilacs, darker pink wigelias, and a variety of bearded irises. These colors are set against a backdrop of varied color foliage, such as king silver artemesia, red barberry, silver dianthus and several plants that are lime green. Because all the perennials are still low, the irises tend to float above them.

The vertical plants provide a midsummer skeleton against which the smaller, but more largely massed, plants infill. The tall m. chordatas develop an orange-beige frondish top of flowers which forms a serene color relationship with the adjacent smoke bush and barberry hedge. The hollyhocks become tall and flower next to the chocolate eupatoriums which are beginning to turn green. Multicolored daylies open, first yellow, then gold, mellon, pink, and red in the outer edge of the circle.