Southold Historical Society Garden Tour: July 9, 2005

Daylilies ................ for me and my wife......???? thank you so much. these are so beautiful.
Kaleem

Can you ever collect all of the species? There is just a few million right?

Soozer: I have to buy one of those things that keep coffee hot - mine is cold already! I thought maybe I bored you to sleep and you needed coffee, too!

dmc - I like having plants with a person's name as part of them. It just adds that personal note. Actually we have very few named. I'd never be able to memorize 1,000 during one summer! Your comment about a guidebook to keep track of the stories is a gem. I won't forget it and I thank you for writing it.

Kaleem, maray dost: what can I say? You are so good to me, sending me such a beautiful card with your beautiful handwriting, the wonderful Pakistani music and the gorgeous earrings. You are a sweetie!

Arlene...thank you for the invite to visit your garden tour here at DG's...I have had the most fantastic time with my morning coffee! Your gardens are just beautiful. I love the curved beds and the lawn walks and the way you arranged your beds! You have inspired me to make some changes! And yes, the little statues too. I have mine sitting in my office...they need to go out in the garden.

I am sitting here with tears of joy in my eyes for you...for yours and your families happiness over a new baby/ies !!! Babies are one of lifes greatest blessings....You and your family have been blessed!

I think I told you once before that I am also from LI...now in CA. I plan to be there in the next month or two to help my Mom move to NC.

I wish you and yours lifes greatest blessings!

Margie

Margie - thank you for all the nice things you wrote! Most of the gardens evolved from Jack not enjoying the mowing because of too much reverse, forward, reverse, etc. So I told him to just ("just") cut them out and we'd make gardens. Found out the hard way that there's a big difference between making them and maintaining them!

Where on Long Island does your mom live?

Arlene...My mom lives in Manorville. Actually she is just attempting to sell her house there. She plans to move to NC to be closer to my youngest sister and her family. I also have a brother in Sayville and sister in Babylon!

You are so fortunate your husband shares your love of gardening...

I know what you mean about maintaining a garden...it takes alot of time!

Thanks for the link, Arlene...really enjoyed it.

Hap

Margie - IF you have the time and want to travel out another 45 minutes we'd love to meet you and our flowers would love to meet you, too!

Hap - Thank YOU for visiting.

I loved taking a break and looking at your daylilies. I would like to make a curved bed along my yard now. Thanks for inspiring me. I have several that need dividing this fall, so that is the perfect thing to do with them.

Arlene,
Love all of your DL seedlings but I am REALLY partial to Malaysian Monarch offspring ,
Brigitte

Lord Have Mercy!! If I woke up in your garden, I would think I had died and gone to Heaven!!

The only thing better than your garden, is the fact that you are such a nice lady.

Thank you for taking the time to create this thread.

Judy

Judy - what a nice thing to say. How sweet of you. You made me laugh, which is good. I've been crying tears of joy since yesterday and people now tease me in Dmails and say "Charlie" and I cry all over again! I loved the Lord have Mercy part and the rest of it: one of our top five compliments! Thanks so much.

Brigitte - thanks! We think they're beautiful. Was it the lavender with the yellow eye that you liked?

Teresa - long ago I read that a long slow curve creates mystery and guests wonder, "What's around the bend?". I love the way the curves photograph. The real PIRL only had body curves, no garden curves: very straight lines but, then, it was designed by her late husband!
He was a very nice guy from everything I've heard but he was gone before we moved to the English Tudor.

Thanks for giving me credit but you're the one who has to do the work!

Arlene.. wow.. such beautifult daylilies. I was going down thinking I like that one and that one oohh and that one is just gorgeous,.oh and that one.. my oh my any one of them would do a gardener proud. just beautiful..

pirl - Had another cup and had to get gardening while it was still 'cool'. We're done for the day. Since seeing all your photos and reading the long thread (elsewhere in DG) about invasives...am rethinking planting vines etc. just to fill all the empty space I have. It's worth the wait to plant things that are always welcome in the garden. :)

The problem is that I never registered them and many/most folks only want named daylilies. I still thank you for the compliments. We love them and how could I select just five to register and hurt the feelings of the others?

I have two unnamed varieties in my garden (Not counting the large doubles that were all over the place when we moved in). One was purchased unnamed by my parents and they named it "My Linda" after my mother and the other just lost the tag and so Mom called it "Damasque" Because of it's lovely creamy color and texture. I don't hybridize so the look of the flower is the important part.. and I can call it what I want..LOL.. I am being careful to keep tags on my daylilies though.. Those and my brugs. Maybe it's because I am becoming more serious about gardening. Your garden is so inspiring.. lovely lovely lovely

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You might want to check your Dmail!

I did I did.. looking looking :)

Yes Arlene,
it was the lavender/purple one you posted this morning at 9.26 am.
I am partial to any lavender/purple or amethyst colored ones because my births stone is amethyst for Pisces.

I just had a cup of coffee and looked thru your pictures once again ...what a feast for the eyes :-)

Oh that one! The one we have two extra fans of! Lucky you. I'll go out and mark it now and ship it when it's done blooming and humidity is way down or early some day.

Arlene,
a SURPRISE it was when I read your PM.How can you ?
I am totally stunned at your generosity ,kind of speechless at this moment .
I was admiring your gardens and DL and when I was dabbing this afternoon I was just hoping to ever get something so very pretty as some of yours.
I will be honored to have them in my garden and will give them a good home :-)
Thank you so much in advance...you have mail,
Brigitte

I guess I'm really missing the boat here by not trying what you and Brigitte..."I was dabbing this afternoon"... are doing -- making your own varieties. And not an invasive among them! There must be visual step-by-step info on that somewhere. So you begin with a few favorite flowers...and the rest is history...all around your yard. Messing with Mother Nature can be a good thing. lol Arlene, no wonder this event is only every 7 years. You need plenty of time to put that rainbow garden together. Wow!

Thanks soozer. If you really want to do it (beware as it is habit forming and a hard habit to break) just let me know and I'll give you the best of what I've learned. Some information is way too involved and it's so boring to read through thirty pages of single line type, with no photos, just to understand the basics.

Actually if you check RikerBear's post (under Garden Talk) of "I found a rainbow in my garden" (think it was late June), you'll see a rainbow he made of flowers, on a photo program. It inspired me so much that I'd love to make one of daylilies and dahlias.

Thanks for joining the tour and your "Wow": I know how I feel when I say it!

soozer,
YES that is exactly what I am trying to do ...going from one DL to the next dreaming about some MASTERPIECE hahaha......no just kidding.
I am new at this so someelse can probably explain it properly to you.

Arlene,what is the information you have ? would you please share it ? looked this morning,some of mine didn't take and only a couple did.Startet a few days ago.

I'll send you the same information I sent to soozer earlier: it's the exchange between 75154 (Mitch, an inner city, Dallas, school teacher in Texas) and myself. Just Dmail me with any questions.

Arlene...Thank you for the invite to meet you & your DH and your garden. I would love to! I will see if time allows when I am there. Right now there is no definite date set and I may even be past bloom season...althought that would be for the plants...I am sure you & DH would still be in bloom!!!

Please D mail me with your address and phone no.

Thanks, Margie

BTW...How far are you from the Hamptons and Bob Schwartz the hybridizers garden? I think it is fairly close...but have forgotten. I have been gone from LI for 30 + years, except for family visits !

We've never heard of the hybridizer you mentioned. We knew Trimmer who has since relocated to Florida.

We're 40 minutes from "the Hamptons", thank heavens. Their traffic is terrible. Here, if we have to wait for five cars to pass we call it "rush hour traffic".

Arlene...He does some great daylilies like "Alone with Maude"...here is a link

http://daylily.net/bobandmimi/seedlings/alonewithmaud.htm

Have fun looking! I met him at a convention...

Arlene and Jack,

What works of love and beauty you have created by you both. While reviewing the awesome gardens, I could not help but recollect this saying:

Live each day as if it were your last,
Garden as if you will live forever.
Author Unkown

It appears that you both live by that creed.

The pictures are so vibrant, I could actually feel the soft grass tickling the bottom of my bare feet, and smell the lovely clean but fragrant air.

Thank you so very much for sharing your loveliness.

Adeline

Adeline,

You are very generous with your praise and we love every word you wrote. How nice of you to add that beautiful quote!

I just posted the pictures that Fuji took of God's creations. Thank you so much for visiting: it was our pleasure to have you join the garden tour of 2005.

Arlene

Hi Margie/picturelady!

Thanks for the link. I absolutely cannot bear to look until tomorrow! My neighbor is coming over with her gardener and after they leave I should have 80 bare spots so I can move daylilies around. Then I can look at the photos when I see what space I have left. Thanks for sending the link.

Arlene

Pirl - you are teaching a whole bunch of us it looks like - thanks for all your hard work! Mitch

Pirl - could you send me the info too... it sure sounds interesting... Thanks! ~ Suzi ♥

Suzi,

It's just the information I sent Mitch/75154 but when I sent it to soozer she replied she couldn't get through it without the photos and they didn't come through.

See how you feel about it. I'll send it now.

Arlene

Hello Arlene,
Thank you so very much for sending it to me ,but I do not have any pictures either,
Brigitte

Hi Brigitte,

I'll send you the thread from June 3rd about hybridizing.

Arlene

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/517135/

If that doesn't work Dmail me.

yep!

Thank you Arlene,
really appreciate it :-)
Have not had enough time to read it though.Been trying to print some information also.

Your gardens are simply beautiful. It looks like a peaceful and joyful place.

And the wonderful news of your daughter and husband's pregnancy is fabulous.
Wooo-hoo! Maybe start buying a box of tissue every time you visit the store--all that crying will start again once you have that baby in your arms......

Thank you for taking the time to enter all the photos to share, plus all the comments--it really does flow like a walking tour. I especially liked the blue moon connection...clematis, hosta, and your wedding.

Your love of gardening and and dedication to 'community' is evident!