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| Peak season still has weeks to go. And a shot from a ladder really catches the extensive plantings. And with weeding, string trimming and rototilling, the beds look fabulous!
I love the Artemisia absinthum and Scotch Thistle silver accents through out the field, they add a bit of drama to the beds I think.
We had a nice couple of days of rain, fortunately, not enough for any flooding (around here), but a really good soaking!
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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| Here’s why I love tall daylilies. As you can see, the tall daylilies, poke up in the back and add a degree of color and depth to the garden. If mid height daylilies were added in the middle of the garden, there would create a layered affect |
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| Sometimes a daylily gets missed in the field because of the extensive nature of the gardens. Mystic Amulet is one such daylily. It is a great deep saturated red. The color is intense and doesn’t fade in the evening. |
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| Olallie Gold: This one is from my grandfather. The whole plant is giant. Established clumps, have the presence of a shrub, and the gold color really carries and is visible from a long distance. |
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| Olallie Burton R: Another giant. When we dug some for a customer we were amazed at how big the fans were. Monster blooms, monster fans and tall! |
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| One neat feature (if you can call it that), is being that daylilies only last for a day, you can do all kinds of things with the blossoms near the end of the day. If you just break the one bloom, without damaging the scape, you’ll still get the rest of the blooms.
Here is just a small cross section of the variation in blooms. |
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| Daylily blooms strung on string makes for a wonderful daylily garland.
And Lyla models a beautiful miniature daylily crown.
We’re going to experiment more with blooms in the coming weeks.
Stay tuned. |
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| One of my annual plantings, on the edge of a daylily bed. The blues and white are Cynoglossum (Chinese Forget-Me-Not), also pink Zinnias and a yellow Nicotiana. Behind holding court is a spectacular red eyezoned daylily. And of course the silvery Artemisia absinthum frames the whole vignette nicely |
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| What’s a cat to do when it’s pouring rain? Nap of course. Dante did do a brief foray outside this morning, but it lasted all of 5 minutes. Basically from the back door to the front. |
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