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| Peak season is still going strong. There are easily close to 100,000 blooms.
As one walks through the gardens, you can see the incredible variation that daylilies exhibit.
I’m sure that I’ve said this before, but that is one of the main selling points of daylilies. The incredible variation of attributes allows for selection of interesting colors, forms heights and more.
We had a nice soaking rain on Tuesday, which was perfect, as it’s one of my few days off.
and I’ll pitch the tripod waterer, it’s nice as you can move it exactly where you need water and it’s tall enough to cover a wide area.
I’ve bought two, and the more expensive one performs much better, so it’s best to invest in a good one (around $100)
Peak Season Schedule: Open Wednesday-Sunday 10-5pm.
We are still shipping weekly, and orders received by Friday will be shipped the following Monday.
I’ve still got plenty of free color catalogs for your gardening friends and they make a nice house warming gift. Just send an email!
Catalog Request
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| Lyla and Ferdinand work the computer, during the tour. |
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| I always try and make this a regular offering. Zinnia bouquets at $5.00.
And while they were a hit for the Art Tour, they are available almost every day we’re open. |
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| The Blossom Board is always popular. It gives people a chance to easily see the possible options of blooms, and these are all available to dig.
It’s a good oppurtunity too, to impress upon people that though daylily blooms only last a day, they can be used as flower displays, if one is creative. |
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| Anwyn, has been creating earrings from found metal piece both modern and vintage.
Here she is creating new pieces during the Art Tour. In the near future she’ll have a web page to sell them from.
To see more go to her Instagram page Gunfish Tinworks |
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| Promises Promises is a great little pink daylily. A very prolific bloomer with a high bud count, it also heavily sets seed. I’ve used it to produce lots of smaller pink daylilies. You can too. |
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| Olallie Joyce Methelis: A daylily with eye catching panache. With a bud count of 18 and growing up to 36″ in height, Joyce M, is great for near the back of the garden. |
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| Just dug lilies. Massive roots and fans, an instant garden in the making. While mail order customers don’t get the large complete plant, the roots are still huge and they recover and grow very quickly. |
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| I’ve got to pitch textures. This is one thing that daylilies lack. Though some daylily foliage is quite spiky, and the tall widely brached scapes add some texture to the garden, plants like Silphium perfoliatum (large leaves right), and Coreopsis tripteris (finer foliage left), are really great for adding dynamic texture to the garden. The gold flowers are Heliopsis, and the blue below, Campanula trachelium, both mainstays in my border beds. |
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| A new experiment. Morning Glory in a large pot. This has worked wonderfully. It’s down at my Garden House, and by August it will be covering a large part of the side with masses of blooms.
The trick is to start plants ahead of time in large pots and of course plant in a very large pot, so there’s plenty of room for root growth. |
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| Here’s Dante, out for his morning adventure. I guess he wanted to get up high so he could figure which way his trek would take him. Behind him, the tall spiky plant is Echinops sphaerocephalus, a biennial Globe Thistle that grows up to 8 feet. Another of those plants that just appears here and there, that I love! |
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