Ever Feel Like This??

It's raining today and is supposed to rain most of the day....We need this rain; however, it does put a crimp in my gardening plans.

Sooooo, I'll just amuse myself with some more pictures from June 21-22.....let's see...how about some doubles?

HONEY CRUNCH CUPCAKE (2 views):



UNINHIBITED:



PAT NEUMAN:


SOUTHERN MADE:


VANILLA FLUFF:


FORMAL APPEARANCE:


PINK EMBROIDERY (I am so enjoying it actually blooming double...is it the extra heat or did it just take a long time to settle in?):


PEGGY JEFFCOAT:


I'm sure we'll see some more doubles in the days ahead...




Ahhhhhh....Sam Cat sleeps the rain away....

A Good Day....

As I've been going through the pictures from 6/22....I came across this:


At the RADS Daylily Show, I was fortunate to win Best Double...this is my only picture as I managed to delete my show photos...boohoo...This one is at home (yes, that's a dog bone behind the plate....)....

The plate was my award for making it to the head table where my flower competed for Best in Show (it didn't win that). I was pretty excited! That's my first rosette...hopefully, there will be more in the future...they're not easy to get...although I know folks who must have stacks of them...ha.

If you're wondering what won for me, it was a double hybridized by Tim Herrington called Cherry Smash Cupcake....


The above picture was taken in my garden on June 23rd. You can see it was a blooming machine! For the show, I picked a scape that still had lots of buds yet to open and was as near to perfect as I could find. I got lucky!

Drizzle Keeping Me Inside...

Until today, the weather has been gorgeous. Perfect gardening weather. Naturally, I haven't done any.

Lilyhemmer is this weekend! Thinking of it reminds me that I left some pictures from 6/21-22 back in draft....

So, herewith, more daylilies:

HEARTBEAT OF HEAVEN:


Added HoH to my garden last fall, it had its first blooms this year. Seeing it reminds me that I have a picture of its hybridizer, Karol Emmerich, with it in Florida at the 09 Convention. Hmmm, I never did do a post or posts on that rainy convention....

WILD CHERRY ROUNDUP



STARGATE PORTAL


PATTERNS IN TIME


SUNRISE SUNSET BEAUTIFUL


ANNETTE'S MAGIC


EVELYN KLOERIS


SWALLOWTALE KITE


BELLA SERA


CLOTHED IN GLORY


LAST SNOWFLAKE


These daylilies were all blooming on 6-22-10. Next up, some doubles blooming then...

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Good news! I just found outside my door my daffodils from WDS! I'm so happy to receive them and appreciative of them being mailed to me.

Have garlic and peonies to plant as well as countless daylilies....ha....and a few other things here and there...hang on good weather!

October Blooms.....

We briefly interrupt our retrospective of summer to view a things blooming now, October 12th...

....with delight I discovered these rain lilies in bloom behind a daylily....


.....I thought maybe they'd been washed away in some of the erosion issues I battle...or that nasty varmint that is tunneling everywhere and lifting virtually every bulb out of the ground had displaced them. No sign of any other color...

Sometimes there is just nothing like a red rose. Such color!



Too bad there's no fragrance...but, since I placed it where it would be hard to smell it anyway...no matter.

Yes, I know...mums...


... I happen to really like this color of mums....they've been here for quite a while.... usually blooming in July or whenever....this year, for grins, I actually did that pinching back stuff in July (a few blooms got by me...)...I have to say....it seems to work because here they are blooming in October. They've also spread themselves around quite a bit. There are some on the other side of this bed, too...I clearly didn't pinch them back quite as well...

Let's see...there are roses blooming now also...not quite as exuberantly as in spring, but we take what we can get. There are four o'clocks (grrrr) blooming that I cannot seem to get rid of. I swear they make seed faster than just about anything and they have perfected that thing where if you try to yank them out of the ground, they just break off leaving roots growing to China or somewhere.

The marigolds are still going in spots around where the tomatoes used to be. I've been changing my mind about sedums, so some of them are blooming. Garlic chives are not blooming as I de-headed them to keep them just where they are (and not everywhere else). Japanese anemones are blooming. If I were planting them now, the Japanese anemones, I would plant them much like how I saw some verbena bonariensis blooming in a tour garden in Georgia (one day I will actually get to those pictures...)...meaning surround them with other plantings to keep them in place (especially good for the verbena bonariensis which takes itself everywhere...and is blooming now, too, by the way). The verbena bonariensis was stunning (not something you'd usually say about it)....I think the Japanese anemones would benefit from the support and not flop themselves around....which some of mine do.

Self seeded nicotiana is blooming and smothering things...sigh...still, I kinda like it. Some annual portulaca, random daylilies (a few), some echinacea, hmmm....can't think of anything else right now.

One sorta sad note....I may have to give up on the epimedium collecting....It looks like I've lost all the newer ones...due to combination of things...mostly, too much sun from an aggressive tree pruning (done with good intentions...however, those shady things under it struggled this year...) and the final factor, the tunneling varmint mentioned above. It uprooted the newer stuff...guess the older stuff has longer roots and didn't find themselves heaved out of the ground.

....back to summer...

Seedlings...

Just some from June 22....

Sam, making either his selection or a cull...lol...


8-169


8-132


8-174


9-180


9-117


10-23


9-125


10-01


Well, as always, there are more, but enough for now....as Sam is wanting a little attention...

Summer, Remember It?

Since I was pretty much MIA during the summer and since it now is actually fall, I thought we'd go back and have a look at summer. It did actually happen. Early. Did you notice that, too?

I know you missed all the gazillions of daylily pictures and not wanting to disappoint, we'll have a nice look at June 21, 2010...the first official day of summer.

First, a rare look at my front yard. A few notable things happened.....as you'll see...


Look there...my new gate! What a help it is...many thanks to my good friend E who suggested it...and DH who also thought it should happen and financed it (of course)...


...and here...no, that is not a burial mound, but the remains of the huge tree that while giving great shade....well, shaded everything (and had lots of roots)...daylilies do like their sunlight and now they can have some...


...walk right in....


...a driveway bed....but on to the pictures!

FLIGHT OF ORCHIDS has such color this year....


Doesn't it just look like it's saying, "Ta Dah!"


SOUTHERN WIND looking particularly lovely...


SONG WRITER....


DON LUIS....


A many blooming GAIL BRAUNSTEIN....


COGNIZANT DISSONANT


Soft and sweet, AMERICAN DOLL...


At attention, SERGEANT MAJOR...


A biggie, TUSCAWILLA SNOWDRIFT...


MUCH ADO ABOUT MAGIC...


LICORICE CANDY...


ROSE VICTORIOUS...


Happy is me....PINK EMBROIDERY actually doubling...


PEPPERMINT PINWHEEL...


June 21st was quite a nice day....there's still more...but the dogs want their dinner....hehe.

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Kobe is officially a Blessed Boy as he and I attended A Service for the Blessing of Animals. It was very nice and yes, all the other pets were also mentioned....

Sam Cat is recovering nicely after having been bitten by something. No stitches necessary, just needs to rest and recover. Whatever got him was probably (I'm thinking) because he had an injured leg and was not quite as quick as usual. His veterinarian said she could tell by the wound that he was engaged and battling...clearly not running away. Of course not! That's our Sammy...who is now going to have an enforced inside tenure for a bit.