Northeast Gardening: Garden Blooms - 23 1/2, 0 by nutsfordaylily

nutsfordaylily wrote:
Morning, everyone! Thanks for all the nice comments. Glad everyone liked my pics.

Marilyn, my Startle is usually very streaky, too. It from thrips. I get it all the time on that one and others. There are some I have very few nice looking blooms on. I'm thinking of spraying for them next year, but you have to start early with a systemic spray when the bloom scapes are first developing. I don't like using harmful chemicals, but I wouldn't be using it on all the DL's, just the ones that get the damage all the time. I will have to start writing down which ones they are. It's just a handful out of the hundreds that I have, so not a really big deal. Thinking of spraying for the iris borers next year, too, or getting rid of the TBI's. Hmmmmm....if I got rid of everything that got damaged by insects every year just to avoid treating them, that would be all the oriental and Asiatic lilies, all the TBI's and some of the DL's. Oh, and the roses, which I have very few of.

Pretty zinnia. You got rain? Was it enough? Everything is bone dry here. Many plants are wilting something awful. I spend up to 2 hours a day watering all my potted plants and stuff that's still getting established. And I spend a lot of time weeding. Oh, and I must spend at least an hour or more a day taking pics. I take about 200 or more pics every day. Haven't had time to work on any projects.

How many DL's does Celeste have? I have roughly around 900 named/registered ones and a few hundred more NOID's and my mother's hybrids. Will be getting rid of more NOID's at my sales and RU.

Gorgeous lilies, JoAnne!

Here are some more shots.

Karen

One of my Mom's