Today's rainy pictures - "Sweet Potatoes" daylily
Let's see your garden!
"Wayside King Royale"
Oriental-Trumpet Hybrid Lilies
Charles Johnston
Daylilies finally starting to bloom - and my Asiatics still hanging on since early May
The rain is a mixed blessing...
Yay - our new drains are working - just bought this house last fall and don't know how the previous owners dealt with the constant standing water over the past 8 years since the house was built!
Some yellow daylilies
These are about 6 ft tall already - "Silk Road"
Asiatics a few days ago when it was sunny
Very pretty Steve, thank you for showing us your garden.
A daylily called "Princess Anna"
Thanks frostweed - I have enjoyed your native plants pictures over the years. I would probably be more sensible to invest in natives but I still like the stuff I grew up north...8 long years ago and still hanging on!
"Indian Giver". Daylilies actually do very well here.
A wider view a few days ago - when it was dry :-)
Asiatic lily "Pisa"
My hydrangea - I planted three of these at the old house...interestingly enough, two of them were sourced from GA and one from PA - the two GA varieties made it through that first summer last year while the Pennsylvanian one died. I transplanted both to the new place last fall and they have done very well.
"American Dream" OT hybrid lily
Some trumpet lilies I brought from the old house - don't know the name
"American West" OT Hybrid
My hydrangeas I got from a local nursery - "Endless Summer" - looking forward to next year!!!
OK one more - got these Hydrangeas from Wayside - good size for a mail-order hydrangea. Hopefully they'll do well. One is a little anemic but I am nursing it and it is improving...
OK - just a couple more....hydrangeas today that I planted a couple weeks ago
My "Thai Beauty" caladiums are just doing OK....
SteverFortworth, I loved seeing your pictures. My daylilies are blooming and I realized that I put some of the colors in the wrong place to be appreciated. ( I put a dark one in front of the dark green foliage of a Knockout Rose and you can barely see the colors)....When is the best time of the year to move them? thanks
Keep up the good work cheering us rain soaked gardeners up with your beautiful blooms. nancy
HI nancy and thanks for the nice words :-)
I made the same mistake, planting rust-red daylilies in front of a dark red brick house! They don't show up well either LOL - I should have stuck to yellow in front of the brick.
I would say you can move daylilies just about anytime.....it is still fairly early. If you're more comfortable with moving later, you can wait until fall/winter when they go dormant, but daylilies are better "transplanters" than many of not most plants, and should not suffer too much shock because of it - just keep the soil moist (I would mulch) until they settle in.
Good luck!!
Steve
Thanks Steve for the quick answer. I will probably let them finish blooming then move them. my garden isn't very big, so I will be able to watch them and keep them moist when the weather gets hotter.nancy
Steve, we are having a brief time when it is not raining so took a few pictures of my pitiful little garden. These are only a few of the Easter Lillies (sorry still don't know the latin). Bought a couple for $2 each after Easter in 2005. They have multiplied and even jumped to other beds....mystery to me. I didn't even know they could be grown in a flowerbed. Always thought they were what my grandmother called "hot house plants". Boy, does that ever give me away. lol
Your garden looks great, Lou! The lilies are beautiful and very prolific. I see you have lots of daylily scapes coming up too - soon you'll be awash in color!
Another wider view. You can see the daylilies that I have been fretting about. They have lots of scapes (new word for me) and two are partially open today.
This is a real jumble. When the high winds of 50-60 mph hit Thursday night I pulled them close together so they could help protect the weakest. It has rained constantly since so everybody seems happy enough to be together.
These are some of my French mallow hollyhocks. I cut a lot of the diseased leaves off last week in hope they would survive long enough to reseed. The wind and the rain has taken it's toll. Waiting for the sun and drier days to determine next move for them.
Wow Lou your garden looks great - lots of variety and texture. I think you underestimate yourself. And you're getting lots of scapes on your daylilies - very dense and they'll look great when they open.
I had those mature clumps at the house I sold last fall but have had to start all over at the new place. The previous owners literally did NOTHING for landscaping or gardening. Not even a shrub in front. Too bad, since this lot is woody and huge and has tons of character and a lot of potential, with loads of large, mature trees. Next year I should have a better show when everything settles in.
Very beautiful, Lou - wouldn't even know you had a "rust" problem! BTW what is the small tree to the left with the long leaves?
Not everything is suffering.
That is a loquat. Planted in June of 2005. Looked like a switch with only about a dozen leaves. Green year round and requires nothing. Had some sort of fruit last fall and some said you could eat it. Didn't appeal to me and the bees had a feast. Makes a great specimen plant.
I have been in this same house for 40 years last February. We have remodeled inside and out multiple times. In Spring 2005 my neighbor and I started on the outside of our homes together. I would love to start a thread with the background story and accompanying pictures. Would that be something that I should put in the journal section?
Our neighborhood is truly the epitome of a village and we could never consider leaving our multiple friends.
These are pictures taken about an hour ago. I'm getting the urge to go to HD and see what came this weekend. Know that somethings are going to have to be replaced when this moonsoon is over.
Some of the many sad hollyhock. These are doubles and look like carnations. I'm afraid that they won't seed. You can see the old blooms are just awful.
Bear Breeches is new to me and it looks like it has found a home.
Guess that is more than enough for one day.
DH is involved with the Colonial and does not even know what else is going on. Think I'll go to HD.
Very nice garden Lou - and thanks for the info on the plant! We just took a drive and looked at the old house - all of the stuff we planted is beautiful and thriving - the new owner is taking good care of it. Lots of big clumps of tall lilies and daylilies, much fuller and larger than what I have here. I am so sad to haveplanted all of that only to leave it - was there about 6 years but loved the house and put a lot of work into the garden.
I bought new and was the 2nd occupant on the street at that place. The original neighbors were great but lots of trashy ones (lots of renters too) have moved in since, who have little respect for their neighbors' property or privacy. For these reasons we did NOT like our neighborhood or many of the neighbors there, which is one of the main reasons we decided to move (and many of the other original group did as well)...but up here in our new place we purchased NW of Ft Worth, the neighbors are great and we love the neighborhood - much older and more established. No more sardine can sudivisions like that for me again - ever!!!
Keep up the great work you have done!!