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You think my yard is all daylilies, not true. (pictures)

15 years ago

In case some might think my yard is mostly daylilies, its really not so. I have lots of roses, shrubs and too many things to list.

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Clematis tower in bloom. House Wren has a nest in the birdhouse in back of it. He starts signing at first light and its right outside my bedroom window.

You can see some of my viburnums in bloom way in the back.

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Front yard bulb Lily bed. Roses in back of them.

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This is the daylily bed I call the Relocation Garden. Because all the clumps pictured here were relocated to this spot from other places in the yard this spring. It is just to the right of the bulb lily bed.

I put those bulb lilies in this spring.

I dug a big trench and planted about 160 of them in each trench. The other trench is in the terraces garden.

Looking at a section of my right side front yard. Daylily bed put in last year. Shrub rose bed behind it put in last spring also.

Closer look at those daylilies.

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Looking at this section of yard from the other way. When these roses bloom, it is just awesome.

Here is a little section of garden by my front porch. Behind all those roses, but you can not see them in the picture, are bulb lilies and some daylilies planted. I moved some of the daylily clumps from here into the relocation garden and replaced them with taller flowering daylilies.

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I am upstairs in my top backyard. I have a rambler rose growing up my cherry tree. Only year three for it so its still not up there quite yet. Lovely in bloom.

Here is a little garden section that has a small section of rose hedge and then daylilies planted around it. This rose (LAVAGLUT) is unbelievable in bloom.

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Comments (9)

tweetypye
15 years ago
Pretty Rita, show us more photos when all those roses are blooming!! :)
Jan
missylin
15 years ago
As I've said before, you should call one of those gardening magazines to do a location shoot at Villa New York Rita. It must be like going to a botanical garden, to walk around your place. I love it!
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Well, I don't know if I could choose just one cause I've seen so many pretty daylilies in fact I check on here twice a day to see what you all have posted but I need to start wearing a bib to keep in check of my drooling on the key board. MY MY MY SO MANY PURDY FLOWERS TO SEE That's my kind of eye candy :)
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newyorkrita
Original Author
15 years ago
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This is one of my roses in the front yard. Just starting full bloom.

My front yard. You get a great view of the short stone wall that I had put in earlier this spring. Before that the hill just sloped all the way down to the sidewalk.

The grassey section used to be the lawn that went down to the street. Now I started a garden next to the wall there by planting a row of four o'clocks. Can't do more this year as I have done enough but that grass will be replaced with a daylily garden next spring.

Porch garden section that I showed above but this time starting to bloom.

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A small section of my side yard rose garden.

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The Clamatis Tower again. This time all purple.

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A section of my front yard were you can see a little of the tower. Plus you can see the blackberries in bloom and the honeysuckle too. There are daylilies all around this area.
mizellie
15 years ago
Lovely. I can't even imgine the work but it must have been something else. It is so wonderful, I can smell the roses. LOL! keep us updated, ya hear...Ellie
newyorkrita
Original Author
15 years ago
More Pictures around the garden.

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Daylily bed in between rose beds in the front yard.

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The rose up the cherry tree blooming.

My front Yard.
Edward_Kimball
15 years ago
Hi Rita,

Your garden looks great. I am enjoying all of your pictures. There might be one or two non-daylilies in my garden too.

Edward
MaxBaerHems
15 years ago
Stunning shots there Edward! The Rhodie is a Beauty and the Peony is just Awesome....thanks for sharing them.

Rick
amateur_expert
15 years ago
This is fun!

Here is one of my favorite combinations in my garden - Fire Power Nandina with Coreopsis. To the left is Frequent Comment which hopefully will be blooming in the next couple of weeks.

Columbine with Japanese Maple

Clematis

Here's a Nandina again but this time with Heuchera 'Palace Purple'

I LOVE this one... Lady in Red Hydrangea

And, right now I'm also growing a bunny (excuse the weeds!)

Christine
Edward_Kimball
15 years ago
I thought you might like to see the yellow tree peony too. This is High Noon.

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