First Scapes Found Today!
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hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
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I found scapes too!!!
Comments (12)You must be so excited to see scapes. I noticed a scape on ELMORE JAMES some time ago and then, after that, another on the same daylily. This one is registered as an EM, but I sure don't think of May 25 as being in the least bit EM. Interesting that, in this mature clump, both scapes are on the side nearest to the Belgian block edging to the large stone patio. Maybe the heat from the stones is enough to affect blooming. My only other scapes are on three new-to-me plants from the south -- MARISSA JONEA, ANGELS GATHER ROUND, and NO EXPIRATION DATE. I've left only one scape on MJ and on NED, and I'll probably cut off all but one bloom on each as well, assuming I have the willpower. AGR came to me in the first week of March and had been potted up since then and spent cool/cold times in the sunroom before going outside permanently. I'm hoping that treatment will give me excellent first-time blooms + rebloom. I also have one daylily that's done. I don't have an ID, nor do I recall where I got it. The color and form tell me it's a real oldie though not a species. Just an orangy yellow with pointy, somewhat starry blooms. Nothing special, but I like the fact that it blooms so early....See MoreAnother new scape today!
Comments (10)Rita, That's just it. This is a 2 fan plant that I put in this past spring. It is NOT established well yet. It bloomed in M season and the same scape is putting up a rebloom already. I've never seen rebloom here even on Stella due to the very dry conditions but do have supplemental water this year. I am truly amazed. This one just wants to bloom its head off! Of course it is so cool now that it will have a hard time opening unless I just bring the scape indoors. This one had a hard time opening when our summer nights got into the 50s....See MoreToday's Blooms, New Scapes, and OT
Comments (8)Rita, There are actually four big gray fish "hiding" in that pond!! You have to really look to see them in person, much less see them in a photograph. The smallest one is about ten inches long. Zeke is so big now that it still surprises me when I actually stop and look at him. I have many smaller frogs here, but, thankfully, no bull frogs. When I soak daylilies, if the pan is under the tree, there is usually a frog in the pan when I empty the water out. I never see them until they hop out and onto the ground. Every year in May we have tadpoles covering the sides of the pond. The noise the frogs make when they "sing" is quite loud. When the grandkids were younger, they would get into major trouble, since they thought they just had to catch some tadpoles and their mothers knew somebody would get wet doing it. But they would sneak out and do it anyway. Now there are two more grandchildren, little boys, one and three years old that will be sure to want to catch tadpoles of their own...and Noah, the 3 year old, won't mind wading into the pond to do it. In fact, he will probably try to swim in the pond. DH and I stopped and picked up a box turtle today that was trying to commit suicide on the main road. I released him in the yard, but DH assures me the turtle will not stay in the yard. That's too bad. It would be kind of nice to have a pretty box turtle (the shell not the rest of him is pretty) crawling around the yard. Expanding the pond is a lot of work, but it will be pretty when it is finally finished. If it ever cools off down here, the work will go faster. 97 is the predicted high today. At least it is less than a hundred. Rita, You have a lovely pond even if you can't make it bigger due to space considerations. The rocks and the fish make it so attractive and it is a nice spot to relax and enjoy the yard and all the work you have put into it. kay...See Morefound a scape
Comments (14)Thank you all for the nice comments. ' NANCY ;Thw Daylily is PANDORA'S TREASURE. CELESTE,I always have a time to get a picture of Ms BLackie with her eyes open.she watches every move i make outside, but when you are about to snap a picture of her, she shuts her eyes.I do not know if this DL, has bloomed earlier iN rhe year, iT was a gift to me from a forum friend its a fIrst bloom for ME. tHANKS kAY,tHE daylily is Pandora's Treasure. RITA: I agree, Rebloom is great. any kinf of bloom is nice thid timr of year when everything is finished for the year, I still have some zinnia's blooming and some young roses blooming. I just rook a cutting off one of my roses and rooted it, wnd now its 2 ft high snd blooming.and another one I rooted is blooming, but its now 2 ft tsll.its in 3 Gallon pot,and I will soon trandslant it into a bigger pot....See More
celeste/NH
last yearI will live vicariously through your posts! It will be a good morale booster to see daylilies up and blooming. We just got another snow storm which dumped 11 inches more of the white stuff so my plants are under about 3 feet of snow. There will be a LONG interval between your posts and mine....LOL. I can't wait to see your photos.
There are plants underneath that huge embankment but you would never know!
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