Oh yes, I do! And your friend is right, daylilies taste so good...like the sweetest lettuce. I find I'm thinking about eating the first blossom when it appears (a ritual now...after having a full bed of daylilies for the past several years.) There are recipes on the internet that has you gather daylily blooms or full buds and stuff them with a nice cream cheese/cream/green onion/herbs mixture and stuffing them gently, then chilling and serving. Yummy-sounding. I would remove the pistil and stamens in the flower before eating, but it's only because I don't want to eat the pollen....although that, to some people, is good for you. They are beautiful and tasty! Pass the daylilies....I've eaten all the colors I have in my garden and they are all good. I think the lighter colored ones have a more delicate taste....just me. Enjoy! fireflyintexas

Well, we live in a mid-19th c farmhouse with most of its original details intact, so I am somewhat constrained by that. I want a plain, workman-like space for the kitchen essentials, with nothing pretending to be something it isn't. (No faux wear marks or fly-specking details on my cabs for instance - at least none applied at the factory; we're not talking about what will happen naturally if someone leaves the doggone screen door open again! For those I've got my Spic 'n Span bucket ready.) I know this sounds drab and dull, but that's not the case since I have details like 14" tall skirting boards with deeply curved moldings; an open staircase with a second-floor gallery and the underlying (also rigid) balance and symmetry of a full-on Greek Revival building. With such strong elements never out of the picture, I have just had to learn to get out of the way. Since almost all our stuff is passed down from our families, (some period antiques and but mostly just old pieces, approaching legal antique status of their own, but not period, IYKWIM) my "style" of decorating is pretty much "what we found in the attic", combined, now, with what we've inherited from our parents. I can't really imagine what it is like to choose to decorate in a defined "style" or go out intending to purchase stuff to go with a particular style. When I read or see pictures here of what people are working on, I often wonder how you ever decided which one to choose. Seems like a lot of energy is expended working out those details. I just concentrate on 1) What do I need to make this room work for how we want to use it? 2) What do I have that will do the job? 3)(If I have more than one option for #2) Which piece looks best (mostly scale) with the other stuff in the room? 4) What can I/do I have to do with it (or to it) to spiff it up enough so make it presentable, if necessary? (If I can't find a suitable piece for some use, then we usually do without until a solution appears.) In general I find that my old stuff tends to look well with my other old stuff, providing the scale of the piece is right, particularly in the context of it all being old stuff, in an old house. And to some degree, after attending to comfort and practicality/feasability and cleanliness (which can include cleaning up a wood finish or redoing upholstery), I really don't care to do more. The only place where I can fall in with the forum's decorating mania, is color. That really lights my fire! I can spend weeks and months thinking about, testing and generally feeding the decorating part of my brain while contemplating which color to put on my walls. L

I love the same colors you do, Ingrid and am a real fan of white and pale pink. I try to create a flow of color in my garden grouping colors together in sections with the white and pale pink and blue accents throughout. This year I planted tons of new iris and had a Purple bed and Blue bed nearish each other and another purple bed out farther with a bed of burgundys and a bed of mismash luminatas and odd greyish ones together to be moved later. I almost keeled over when the brightest yellow you can imagine popped up there (a free iris). I shall dig it and plant it next door at the vacation rental where I plant my too orange roses also. I have a pale yellow bed of other flowers and a pale yellow and purple section of roses. I plant white and cream and a few purple foxgloves about as well as white and blue campanula throughout. I am also scattering Sweet Williams around for summer color. I play on Pinterest with colors of plants on a board that is just for me to dabble with. I helps me combine other plants with rose color schemes. I try to like yellow so plant pale versions such as the magnolia Elizabeth, and pale yellow peonies along with cream near purples, like the iris. I do like some of the dark dark pink roses, the ones without a true red, that will blue with age and have those in a bed with white roses interspersed. My garden is young and sometimes I make impulse purchases that somehow find a place somewhere. I find if I don't love the color of a plant I kill it without meaning to do so and have killed many rudbeckias because though I love them at other people's houses, I can't get around to even liking them in my garden, I stick with Shasta daisies and echinacea in pinks for that shape. I like themes so have a black and white section of the garden, in back of the dark dark pink and white roses, along with a section for the Little Girl Series of magnolias from the 1950s with roses in pinks in between. I am collecting the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs roses from the Netherlands and am planning a little "Snow White" garden with lots of white other flowers with the roses. As I have a disease which causes fatigue and pain, I am planning more benches in shady nooks and after a friend showed me a picture of lie down benches in a forest in Scotland I am determined to have that also. I have a section of peonies along with some dwarf fruit trees and also have peonies interspersed with the roses, again mainly in whites and pale pinks but have some corals in another section of the garden and a few pale yellows. I am planting the native Pacific Dogwoods about as I love them so. I follow deer trails for my beds with some cut throughs I make. It sounds very grand, but it isn't yet, perhaps in 20 years!

Samhain10 ...thanks for your comment on my seedling #7 ....It really is an odd color but if you were to see it in real life it is exactly like the picture If I were to register it though, I am not sure how exactly I could possibly describe the color . Here are 2 more images of the same seedling ( the second image not so great) but it shows how the color can be different from day to day. All different views seem to be temperature/weather dependent. ]] ...... it is not pink per se , not peach either not mauve , there are some brown tones and some greyish tones thrown in there too , not an easy plant to describe ...amazing what Mother Nature can produce .