Raining again!!
Happy birthday Carrie
Cousin Nut I need to file a complaint about your beluved day lilies. I don't think even one is going to bloom this year :( I know I probably ticked them off by calling the whole flower a 'scape' but geesh you think at least one would forgive me. And what is with this MONSTER??? Are they supposed to get that big??? That's a full grown wheelbarrow and potting bench in the background to give it some perspective.
It's the tropical look?
Tee hee. It could be a palm tree ^_^
Yes, Cousin Nut, they are supposed to get that big. Some are smaller, some bigger, depending on the variety. You may be early yet to get bloom scapes on your DL's. Be patient!!!!! You're three zones colder than me.
Karen
O thanks dear Cousin Nut I thought they should be budful by now but I will be patient cuz you are an expert and my dear Cousin ^_^ ps HOLY COW about the big guys! Carrie ok that big one can take me. If you had to, could you take it out with your chair? Seriously it's bigger than both of us put together!!!!! Seriously!!!! Shhhh don't tell Cousin Nut but that big one is SCAREY
LOL! Too funny!!!!!
Karen
I came by this conversattion late and had to wonder just what you ladies were talking about! ;^)
Monster daylilies.
Cousin Nut it is with great humbleness that I retract my official complaint about your beluved daylilys cuz YIPPEE! one of the Stellas is forming buds. I think maybe they are just late this year as you say cuz it was w*i*n*t*e*r til June. Or maybe it is because I've been singing to them. I think they particularly like lily songs from West Side Story. mi mi mi mi mi mi
♪♪ When your a Lily your a joy in part shade
From your first scape and bloom til your last blooms do fade....♪♪
I got a new roof!
Dahlia, you want MORE Stellas?
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Carrie YIPPEE about the new roof!!!! Renos are a horror, a horror IMPO. I have three Stellas and that's enough for me. Up til this year they have been bloomful all summer so I luv them. I am still bummed out though about the Raspberry Pixie not having buds cuz it's my fav in my 'tiny flower bed'. But now I am every hopeful that the Pixie will be budful soon ^_^
Darn right, YIPEE! It's still raining, but I imagine I hear it bouncing off the roof instead of seeping in. I say I "imagine" because I have been informed by DD that I couldn't possibly actually be hearing water seep through the roof into the walls.
RE: Stellas, my dirty secret is that I just don't care for yellow. Daffs are ok, forsythia are ok forced but by the time everyone has one in bloom, ho hum, and then the bloody Stellas! Also unisex baby clothes, back in the day when you didn't know what gender you were having ahead of time.
What a coinkidink Carrie, I am also not a big fan of yellow in my garden! Springs bulbs yes, moonbeam coreopsis yes and the ligularia cuz I'm a shady lady. I do adore white cuz I'm a shady lady and also a nighthawk and white shows so well in shade and at night. I hear you about the baby clothes thing. I am very, very bad. I only buy scarlet baby clothes now. No wonder that my baby shower invites have dwindled but REALLY. I just want to hug that little darlin. I have absolutely no idea what that new person perfers. What if they hate yellow? What if they hate blue or pink? It's way too stressful for me to be making wardrobe decisions for a precious new person.
Scarlet and royal purple! That's all DD#! wore until I knew DD#2 was a DD! That's all I bought, anyway. We have a DGD on DH's side and I buy her coral and brown and purple, dresses though, but sophisticated, interesting colors, just not pink PINK PINK!
I love yellow in the garden, so bright and cheerful. Can't wear it though, makes me look dead...red-head thing...
You're a red-head? (sighs wistfully)
Me too sighing wistfully. I can do auburn if it buy the right #.
I call it red...Gramma always TOLD me in no uncertain terms "it's auburn dear, never forget that".
Yay! for the bloom scapes on the Stellas, Cousin Nut! Love your take on the WSS lily song. I have always loved that movie.
Yay! for the new roof, Carrie!
I love all colors in the garden. I have one garden that is all whites and yellows.
'Sigh!' I, too, wish I was a redhead, and I have dyed my hair that way in the past. I happen to like redheaded men, too. Mmmmmm........!
My friend Karen has been edging away again, and right in front of the DH. She says he knows better than to say anything now.
Karen
I love yellow too! I have a yellow japanese maple, yellow barberry, sum and substance hosta and a host of little yellow ones, feather boa, lemon lime, sea wiggles, etc, pretty yellow evening primrose yellow lysimachia, and of course, several different yellow daylilies. I don't have Stella, I think. Now that I want the mystery daylily to bloom, the sun has retired from service. sigh Will I ever know what kind it is? Oh, and lest I forget, my favorite yellow Cornus mas, which is the first shrub to bloom in the spring. I didn't opt for the yellow lilac because I think it is too pale. I had "white" daylily 'Joan Senior', but it was more of a cream color, and I wasn't happy with it so I dug it up and sold it all at my plant sale. Time for something else. A big pink daylily perhaps. or a yellow tree peony. we shall see.
Martha
Martha, I have a lot of those yellow plants you mentioned, or 'chartreuse' in the case of the foliage plants. Oh, and I bought a yellow witch hazel this year, too! I have one group of forsythias that need cutting back every year, and the only reason I keep them is that they are just loaded with blooms every spring and look so pretty.
Karen
They're loaded with blooms because you keep cutting them back! If you did it in the fall or took 20 years off, they'd look rotten, like ours... :(
Okay, good to know! Sorry about yours, Carrie.
Karen
Yeah, the roofers are coming back tomorrow!!!
Reports of the roof's completion were greatly exaggerated. The front was done only.
Yay!!!!!! With all the rain we've had, you really do need it done!
Karen
We have forsythia too. My son, the gas garden tool guy, just took out some old scraggly ones along the driveway which only seem to scratch the cars. He mulched and it looks nice. I have a large old one at the top of the hill which is beautiful in spring. We are thinning that one out, too. He gives it kind of a bowl haircut in early spring so the branches don't root. We had to take a bunch of that out some years ago to revive this bush and I am not up for that again any time soon. I have lilacs below this that are going to have to be moved soon due to their size. not looking forward to this.
Carrie, hope the roofers don't get hit by lightning!
Martha
Thar's why they keep stopping and starting... I love a branch or forced forsythia in Jan. or Feb., I mean yellow is better than nothing! But by the time everyone on the block has forsythia, ho hum yawn. I realize I am abnormal in this feeling.
And many others! ;^)
Oh, David, you, you, you, I wrinkle my nose at you (in a nice way)!
At least I ADMIT I have a problem with yellow. Lots of people don't admit their problems. Is there a yellow-dislikers recovery group?
Amber Anonymous?
LOL OK
LOL!
Karen
O wow Carrie that the roofing is still going on but it is probably better with the rainyness to go slower to keep things dry? I I'm delighted to hear about the strong Edging Movement being practised by your friend Cousin Nut! I keep prettifying my edging which helps with the disguise
Also I have discovered that when you are doing a patio project some'edges' must be cleaned up. This cleanup will actually 'swoop' out to expand this bed by a few dahliafeets when my DH is looking the other way. I will post pointers on the 'swooping method' later.
I think I'm familiar with the swooping method. You edge a new bed and make it square. Then when the DH complains he can't get the riding mower into the corners you quickly volunteer to "round" them out for him. This rounding can encompass several feet if done right.
I have also been practising a 'grab back technique' in which I incorporated some of the area that was the old deck into this bed. This was a bold and risky move but by putting in largish plants it looks like it has always been this way. This bed used to end at the edge of the asiatic lilys. Note that I moved in some of your beluved day lilys cousin nut ^_^
I like this yellow right now in the herb bed.
Very nice combination!