More Happy Faces

Flutterbye (Childs 1981)

Here are a few more daylily faces. It’s traditional to show single daylily blooms in photographs so that the intricacies of the flower can be appreciated. Lest you should think that daylilies just bloom one flower at a time, however, I’ve included a few clumps.

I demonstrated great restraint this spring, and didn’t add a single new daylily cultivar to the garden, leaving the hemerocallis count at 140 varieties, so these photos represent just a modest sampling, taken at random according to what looked good to the camera.

Earth Angel (Stamile 1987)

Rue Madeline (Carr 1992)

Prague Spring (Lambert 1989)

Chesepeake Crablegs (Reed 1994)

Asterisk (Lambert 1985)

Slow Burn (Salter 1996)

Blonde is Beautiful (Harris Benz 1985)

Magic Carpet Ride (Kirchhoff 1992)

Beautiful Edgings (Copenhaven 1989)

Electric Man (Culver 2007)

August Morn (Carpenter 1995)

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Daylily Season Returns

August Morn

The most anticipated event in the summer garden is the daylily season. A few plants have been opening flowers for the last week or so, but the main show has just begun this week. There are plenty of flower scapes and buds and it should be a good year for daylilies. Here are a baker’s dozen of the first flowers to bloom. Hold Your Horses was new to the garden this spring and has already produced several scapes, boding well for its future contribution to the annual display.

Railguy and I are taking a few days of vacation to travel into New York state with the goal of visiting a few gardens south of the border. Be back on the weekend!

Blonde is Beautiful

Born Yesterday

Chesapeake Crablegs

Coyote Moon

Helter Skelter

Hold Your Horses

Hurricane Sky

Longstocking

Pixie Parasol

Prince Redbird

Slow Burn

Suzy Wong

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