How about we start a new thread for daily new photos now that things are really getting started? Whoever posts first for the day can start the new thread and date it. OK? We do that on daylily forum and it makes it easier to see all the new photos each day without having to hunt. Here is my first Lollipop lily.
susan
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I just returned from the park where they have a nice planting of Husker Red Penstemon, some nepeta and perennial geraniums in front of the waterfall.
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Across from the park, another of my neighbors has also planted the strip between the street and their sidewalk with flowers.
Lots of new daylilies should be opening this week. Here is Lemon Prelude.
And one of my tomato plants has little tomatos!
We had another storm last night, and in the morning all the installed gardens are shiny, drippy, and droopy, but the color in this container garden was coming on strong just now.
Lovely container! My back yard is starting to have spots of color here and there. Both these daylilies are early early ones. The Middendorffi daylily in the background has been in bloom since May 5. The red flowers are Gardeners World Lycnis.
Wow, daylilies already! I don't have any buds yet. Two pictures from my front yard.
And the second
Well, I went and got the photos, but they were closeups like Susan's first one in the thread. I'l get some landscape shots tomorrow. My shots will not compare to the others posted....your gardens are always wonderful and such a broad selection of older plants. I stripped mine almost bare last year and am starting over, so it's very basic at this point.
This is a really nice white peony that has loads and loads of side blooms. It lasted for 10 days in a glass of water at my desk without any petals dropping loose which must be a record. Lots of substance on this one, but it was a pressie and the friend didn't have a name.
Suzy
This message was edited Jun 3, 2007 1:24 AM
This one is Gilia capitate from seed. You can plant these little seedlings quite close.
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This is a rose I got fro the Park's Super Sale last year. The name is buried with the rose, but I sure love it!
This is a little shot where I am trying to be cottagey, but not much is in bloom. A dahlia is planted smack dab in the middle and will fill the space, but right now it looks a little thin. From about May 20th.
S.
Here is a landscape shot from about May 25th. It shows the daffodils going down and the red bed coming up (use your imagination LOL!)
Best I can do tonight.
Suzy
Heres a perennial geranium. Been a long time so don't remember the name. Taken May 31, 2007
Bernie
Chris, I forgot to say that I have a similar set up going with the peony and the droopy-thing (Nectaroscordum) but your foxgloves are way better than my 3rd thing, which is Asiatic lilies which don't bloom for another couple of weeks, at least. I'm pretty sure I have some room in there for Foxgloves if I squeeze them in. Are those a certain kind that bloom early? My foxgloves (actually just one) just bloomed today, but the peony was finished about 6 days ago.
Susan, I have never heard of Mitterdorfii daylily, but if it blooms this early, I will be on the lookout for one!
Suzy
Here is a link to a page with photos of some of the species daylilies. It amazes me that all the fancy ones we have today started from these very simple daylilies.
http://www.daylilygarden.com/origins/
How long does the gilia bloom Suzy? Looks like a great plant to fill in spaces.
Chris, it looks like foxgloves do very well for you. I'm trying a couple new ones this year, but so far have not been very successful in getting them to come back. Is that a perennial geranium on the far left of the photo with the peony? Very pretty.
Suzy,
Maybe your peony is just an earlier blooming variety. I have one that is finished blooming too. My front yard has full sun so the foxgloves out there are a little ahead of the ones in shady areas. Finally after several years of trying I have foxgloves reseeding all over and I pretty much let them choose where they want to be. They all come from a couple of plants I bought several years ago. I think they're just the standard digitalis purpurea.
Chris
