Really nice. I have always loved Spiritual Corridor, but mine has been very spotty this year. Inca Puzzle is my fav. of your pics here. Wow, Long Tall Sally does look massive. cindy

I appreciate your continuing to look and comment on this long bloom season. Jean, Wild Rose Petals is not my favorite combination of colors...the pink with the yellow edge. I am determined to have no larger number of daylilies than I have, and in fact, downsizing a bit would be good. So if I don't really like it, it is out. I have several people who eagerly take take any I will give them. Chris, Fire in the Hole is in it's second season. It is a nice tall plant, a very good bloomer and has found a home here. Debra, you should have seen my double checking that it was really Flying Trapeze that had put up re-bloom scapes. And PC is an amazing plant, you are right about it never stopping. Maryl, you picked three good ones to like. the color of POE is just that deep, always. Julia, as I told you, Phil had said PC is always sold out; and it is very understandable. Julia and Mantis, Medici Palace is a good red, and Mantis, it is a Munson. Even posting so many, there are always beautiful ones that I don't post. I may not have posted Medici Palace. I've had it at least four years, and it does usually re-bloom here. I went through a big push buying Munsons about three or four years ago. Some of them will be moving out this year, but not very many. I will probably post a few shots from today either tomorrow or the next day, since there were several very nice ones that didn't get posted today. Roman Conqueror put up it's first ever re-bloom today, for instance. kay

I've been trying!! I drove to Mystic yesterday to pick up my swap items... it took me almost 2 hours from work, but I was determined. I left work early, and got there about 6:15. I had checked the website and saw summer hours were until 8. But no! (it didn't say this) Summer hours don't start until Summer!!! June 24. So I went elsewhere. I'm not as happy with what I ended up with v. what I intended, but I hope my swappie likes it!! Now I have to find some time in my schedule to get this stuff boxed up and mailed. I have until the 20th, right? All of you who have posted that you've mailed and me having been the second to recieve my swap, I'm getting a bit of complex!!! I hate being late! I just hope my partner likes it when if finally gets there....

Paula, I worry about you and Ken and all that high water. Y'all be extra careful! After all these years of fearing that wildfire would burn us all out of our homes, now we are at the other end of the spectrum. It hasn't even taken hail to knock fruit off our plum trees. Every time we have had really high wind and heavy rain together, the ground is covered with fruit. I still hope to get enough plums to make some jelly, but that looks more and more iffy every day. My garden is the same as yours---without raised beds, there simply would be no garden left to produce anything. This week I yanked out the snap peas----the plants, though heavily loaded with peas and still in bloom, were rotting off at the ground, and they are in raised beds. I harvested all I could find as I pulled out each plant and put it on the compost pile. I'm not going to plant anything else in the ground where they were growing until we have had a few days of sunshine to dry out the waterlogged soil in those raised beds. I fear that any seed sowed there now would just rot or wash away anyhow. Robert, What is a sunny day? (grin) I feel like we have become obsessed with mowing and edging the property, precisely because we cannot do it. On the first sunny, dry-ish day we get, Tim will be mowing, and I'll be out there with the string trimmer tidying up the edges, and along fence lines and such. Tim did mow the other day, so at least the grass in the area closest to the house, garden and outbuildings is low, but the roadside and the pastures are high. You know, that snakey sort of high. I can't wait for us to at least be able to mow pathways through the fields. After Tim mowed the other day, he had just parked the riding mower in the garage when gas became pouring out from underneath it. As he was pushing it back out of the garage, I was running to the house to grab cat litter to absorb the spilled gasoline. He eventually found a hose loose and then two parts on the ground that surely must have had something to do with the loose hose, which I assume was a fuel line. So, before he can mow again, he'll have to fix the mower again. It is always something, isn't it? We've never had to work so hard just to mow the grass. Larry, Thanks for the laugh! You always say something that puts a smile on my face. I like the idea of a boat delivered by a drone. Yesterday when I heard the UPS truck coming down the road (you can hear it from a long way off once you are used to what it sounds like) I went down the driveway to meet the driver down at the road. I wouldn't have wanted for him to bring that big old truck up our flooded driveway as he might have gotten stuck in the mud. Has anyone here been counting days and nights of rain? Is anyone approaching 40 days and 40 nights? It might be time to start building an ark, and if I was building that ark, it would have two sections---one for two of each kind of animal and the other for two of each kind of plant. Oh, who am I kidding? It would have a third section for 100 tomato plants. Dawn