Some early August garden updates......
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And how's your end of July/early August garden?
Comments (9)Here's a link with some info on the "ditch lily daylily", that shows pics of some of the variations with names of them. Claire, Carl, there is something kind to be said about the so called "ditch lily". I guess unless you are a purist with daylilies, it has it's place in the garden and I'm far from a purist with my daylily bed. Carl, that is a perfect name and description for them. "ditch lily with an attitude". They are a work horse in the gardens, never fail to come back, never fail to bloom, never fail to please the eye with it's several varieties. given the right location, they will spread to their heart's content; and in my opinion, are a beautiful variety, in their own right, and don't deserve the harsh words that the daylily pros give it. I wouldn't be without mine, lovingly given to me about 26 years ago from a neighbor to start my daylily bed. They are prominently in the bed and surprisingly enough, and I know I shouldn't say this, but they have not really taken over the bed either. Fran My daylily bed from this year. pics taken from early June through 7/28 mid June when the first of the ditch lilies start to bloom along with the yellow in the front called happy returns, daylily bed taken 7/28 single "ditch lily" double "ditch lily" hyperion scents the gardens beautifully 7/12 ruffled hyperion, also scents beautifully happy returns, 7/28. blooms from early June and repeat blooms till the frost takes it away in early to mid Oct. pandora's box 7/24 siloam uri winford 7/25 red pinocchio, a really scarlet red that the pic doesn't show 7/27 Catherine Woodbury 7/27 a burgundy, no ID, didn't keep the tag 7/12 a cream but looks more white in the pic. no id, didnt' keep the tag purple d'oro, been blooming since 7/10 and still is These are the results of a purchase of bare roots in a bag that where labeled "hybrid daylilies" and marked down to $.25 at a big box store in mid August 5 years ago. Been able to identify a few of them only rocket city 7/26. been blooming since 7/12 and still has about 75 buds left of it's original 220 buds. Yup the math genius, engineer, DH decided to count them all. franz hals 7/12 and still blooming away autumn red 7/24 and these from the same bag with no id to them but just beautiful Salmon pink 7/12 and 7/24 still blooming away gold, 7/25 pale pink 7/26 bicolor 7/26 This beauty 7/12 and 7/27 still blooming...See MoreAugust update, and new rock garden
Comments (8)Nice! Your zone 8,right? I wish I had a lot of tropical plants like yours I could put in the ground. They are so nice! Im going to be scared about putting my new windmill and my needle in the ground next year in zone 6. It looks like yours are thriving! Do you give them any protection? Again,Very nice plants! -Hunter...See MoreUPDATE: August Garden Swap
Comments (2)hello I got my seeds today. they are great. thanks for hosting and have a great day michelle...See MoreUPDATE: Garden Circle Exchange Ring August
Comments (100)The Ring is an opera, I think, not wanting to speak for Carol. But my question was going to be, why see it several times in a row? Must be a great show. I don't know Opera at all. If it means shoes that hurt my feet, I'm not going. Earthly I love your dog from photos I've seen and hope it's just a passing minor malady. Pet her and love her up lots and be assured that she's in our thoughts. Same goes for your son and his arm- the Summer of Pain- for him in a cast. I broke my collarbone when I was about 8 and couldn't swim all summer, it was such a bummer. Hope it has healed well and he can cry FREEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM soon. Earthly, wouldja mind being reeeeeeeeeal careful cutting up all those delicious sounding vegetables from your garden. (You sound like Kay Scarpetta from the books by Patricia Cornewell, whipping up some wonderful adlib italian sauce in her kitchen.) You only get ten fingers to type with you know, and we'd miss you terribly if you couldn't post due to kitchen amputations. Enough of that talk.... So, to be clear, you would serve tomato gravy on pasta, or with meat and pasta? We'd call that marinara sauce. Stephanie, by all means dahlias come in shorter sizes 1-3 feet is easy. Here are a couple of my 'shorties' equally delightful as the taller ones. Aurwen's Violet, bright purple little pompon ( round) only 2.5- 3 ft tall A favorite from Lowes! Impression Fantastico- blooms its fool head off all season long, the more you cut, the more it sprouts: Pearson's Michelle- a prolific little medium orange pompon that would look absolutely marvelous with your posted orangish dahlia. Mine is slow this year and I sure miss its many blooms. Jack O Lantern 3 ft tall, variable orange/yellow collarette- so cute! And one of my current favorites: Kari Dancer- pink/yellow cactus on 3 ft bush Natal- a really dark red, almost black in the center: Karras 150 a lovely white cactus on 3 foot plant: Brookside J Cooley a real champ in the top Fabulous Fifty of dahlias of all time: I finally didn't kill it this year! Foxy Lady, Kind of maroon and yellow, fades to more medium pink- lots of blooms on 3 foot plant. Just one more, I swear! check out the coloration on these petals. It looks just like the deep pink is painted on a canvas of white. This one rotted in our cold wet spring, much to my dismay. Fascination: Are you sorry you asked yet? LOL! There are probably 5,000 more to choose from in the short height range; I just don't have them- yet. There are plenty of what are called "bedding dahlias" too: kind of like mums, many many blooms on a 18-24 inch bush; not so good for cutting, but great to line a path or sidewalk. Oh I can hardly wait til dawn to get out to the gardens! Everybody have a great weekend and think good thoughts for Earthly's poochy, Shirley's son's Kerry, and Dusty in absentia (come back and check in Dusty!), and all those healing from one ailment or another....See Morembug_gw
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