Tiring Day ...but FFO

10 years ago

Went to the gym, worked out, walked two mile, then came home and started putting out new mulch after weeding the jungle from all the rain.

But a FFO today, Delayed Arrival puts in it's first Appearance:

Lily Dache is an oldie, but an excellent bloomer:

Handwriting On The Wall had a triple-play:

Red Slippers on Re-bloom:

Songwriter is beautiful on Re-bloom with slugs gone:

Island Time:

Wild Child:

Arctic Lace a wonderful Re-bloomer here:

Forsyth's Peekaboo:

Possession of Obsession on Re-bloom:

kay

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mantis__oh
10 years ago
Handwriting on the Wall really jumps out. I also like Peekaboo. What Forsyths would you recommend (other than, of course, Ace of Hearts)?
maximus7116
10 years ago
I want the pinks -- Songwriter and Delayed Arrival. I love Arctic Lace and can only imagine how much better it would be with rebloom.
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Those are beautiful. It appears lilies can withstand the heat better than we can. Normally I don't like orange lilies (because of the ubiquitous ditch lilies all over the place here), but I'll make an exception for that one! Love the purple and just drove by a lady's house w/front yard chocked full of perennials, spotted what I thought was an unusual daylily but didn't want to get out of the car there, looked kind of like your pinkish one. Are you the one I talked to last year about Brave Heart? I bought some on ebay but never got them planted, too tired by then. Whew, hit a key and almost lost this. I'm losing it lol. I'll look forward to more of your photos. I ordered just a few iris from Wild's and as an afterthought, asked about Brave Heart. She said it was on the list, took my order for 3 and said they'd call if it was not available. It's not in their catalog or online one this year. So I'll feel extremely fortunate if it comes, still don't know where to put them. Aren't they a little shorter than most? Your colors were so intense on that. There is another photo on the web, and it's raspberry but not as pretty as yours. Is yours in part shade or shaded by other plants? Soil and zone could make a dif, too, also the way cameras capture colors, time of day, and transmitted through umpteen servers before it shows up on my monitor, which could be off a bit, never calibrated it like you're supposed to. You did well with the photos standing in that heat. Maybe you have the ac on, and it's almost worse going out in the heat than not running it sometimes. Right now I'm using my commercial fans but will probably have to turn on the ac soon. It's really humid because of all the rain we've had which makes it feel hotter, but cooled down nicely now. Sometimes I envy people who live in the south that they can grow things we can't. But then I think of the summer heat there, and it gets just as bad here but not prolonged like for you.
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organic_kitten
Original Author
10 years ago
Mantis, I have a number of Forsyth's and they all tend to do well here. Garrett mason is probably the prettiest of his blooms. Ace of Hearts and Eyes of Distinction have done well from the first year. It took Peekaboo a couple of years to put out a lot of blooms. It also re-blooms. I suspect you would like Garrett Mason the best.

Chris, it has always re-bloomed here, but Debra said it had never re-bloomed for her...and you can see, it really re-blooms here, so it surprises me that it hasn't for her. The slugs had made a splotchy mess of Songwriter, so I am happy to her the pretty blooms now on re-bloom. they were ugly before.
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shive
10 years ago
Arctic Lace always reblooms here too, except last year when the 109 degree temps killed the scapes. Red Slippers however, has not rebloomed for me. Your RS looks even prettier on rebloom than it did the first time around. I really love that ruffly red.

Debra
Julia WV (6b)
10 years ago
Nice grouping Kay. Handwriting On The Wall is so pretty as a trio. Arctic Lace is a pretty, ruffly white.
All nice pics. I know what you mean about the weeds. So much rain here this year I feel like I'm never going to get caught up.

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celeste/NH
10 years ago
You always have such pretty daylilies to show us! My favorite is actually Lily Dache because of all those blooms! Anything that blooms well and reliably is a star in my eyes. Based on looks alone, I like Red Slippers and Forsyth's Peekaboo.

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marricgardens
10 years ago
I like your Red Slippers. Songwriter is a beautiful color. I always like Arctic Lace. Marg
organic_kitten
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks all for looking. Red Slippers, Songwriter and several others look much better on re-bloom, Debra. In fact, most of them do. I'm not totally sure why,but blame it on the insect life.
Julia, I cannot believe how tall th weeds got so quickly.
Thanks, Celeste, between Lily Dache and All American Windmill, I see to have a lot of yellows unusual form/spiders blooming most of the season.
Red slippers has turned out to be an excellent plant Marric.
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deangreen
10 years ago
Island time so subtle and lovely! great pics.
newyorkrita
10 years ago
Wow. Kay you sure had a lot of energy and did so much work in the garden plus all that exercise. Red Slippers and Songwriter tie for my favorite today.
nat4b
10 years ago
Wow you sure worked and worked out a lot! I only did an hour of weeding yesterday and felt exhausted for the rest of the day :)
Very pretty FFO on Delayed Arrival, I love those colors. My favorites are Arctic Lace, Songwriter and Wild Child, but the rest are all very pretty too.
jean_ar
10 years ago
Delayed Arrival is a very pretty one. I love its colors. and I love Red Slippers , that's a beauty. love them reds. snd
Songwriter is beautiful, too, but ARTIC LACE is my favorite one. I love it.

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