One of my minor grievances concerning climate change is that our daylily season has shifted at least three weeks forward in the last 25 years… and I really miss having their exuberant colors brighten up early August! Thank you for these mementos, Satby:
After the spring tulips and daffodils, and also after the spring peonies and iris, come the summer daylily blooms. Dan B and I have been trading pictures. I can’t name them though, I bought an assortment of “lost tag” daylily fans from a supplier and so they’re all surprises.
I love surprises!
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What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?
mrmoshpotato
It’s not 5 yet!
My bones are all discomBONESulated!
satby
Oh, they’re all (mostly) in decent focus, that’s good 😊
I can’t always tell 😂
OzarkHillbilly
Daylilies are so beautiful, so reliable, so easy to care for. Thanx for the pics, Satby.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: thanks! I got them from Smokey’s Garden, a daylily supplier out of Michigan. Most of them were from this collection.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby:
Oh great. There goes another $20 I’ll never see again. ;-)
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: oh, you’ll see it, it’ll just be green with other colors on top 😘
mrmoshpotato
@satby: Maybe they’re a blurry flower breed that you haven’t seen (clearly). 😁
ETA – oh, these are yours. Feel free to use my excuse. 😁
Seriously, nice photos. 😃
satby
@mrmoshpotato: thanks.
In other news, I hate the days getting shorter (6:25 and not dawn yet??) but love the cooler weather.
Baud
@satby:
You’re impossible to please.
Jeffg166
The day lilies didn’t last long this year.
satby
@Baud: it is a conundrum 😂
@Jeffg166
Mine didn’t. The heat dome arrived as they were starting to bloom, so they went through the cycle fast.
Princess
@satby: They’re gorgeous!
satby
@Princess: thank you! My goal is for them to fill in along the front and side fences so that there’s less lawn. I’m getting a pretty good bang for my
$20, $30, (I bought 10) this was the third summer for several of them.Liminal Owl
Ooh, lovely! Thank you, Satby. I have always loved daylilies (and tiger lilies) but didn’t know they came in such a variety of colors.
catclub
There is at least one Psalm that has the same complaint.
Suburban Mom
Deer seem to like daylily buds and flowers. The past few years my plants have looked promising but the buds disappeared literally overnight. I don’t want to fence my yard but it is frustrating.
WereBear
@Suburban Mom: Deer like EVERYTHING. Daffs are safe.
J.
Wow! So beautiful. Great photos!
satby
@Liminal Owl: @J.: Thank you, glad you like them.
satby
@Suburban Mom: can you just fence the flower bed temporarily, like with tall chicken wire and stakes?
MagdaInBlack
In my previous life, I had a bed of old fashioned yellow day-lilies ( cow lilies ) near the house, and a duck that yearly nested in the middle of them. Naturally, her unimaginative name was “Lily”
delphinium
@satby: Lovely photos! I only have the Stella D’oro lilies in my yard at the moment so nice to see all these other varieties.
Jeffg166
@Suburban Mom:
The Chinese used dried day lily buds as a thickener in soups.
Jeffg166
@satby:
Same here. Too hot too soon.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone 😊 😊 😊
rikyrah
@satby:
Hey satby 🤗
Haven’t seen you for awhile 😞
satby
@rikyrah: took an R&R
O. Felix Culpa
Love the flowers, satby! When I was a kid, we had daylilies–of the orange variety–in the back of our yard. Once planted, they seemed to grow themselves. I always loved them. Not an option for the hot’n dry southwest, alas. But my prickly pear cactus is thriving. :-)
WendyBinFL
When I was growing up, my family lived in a house on top of a hill. The backyard slope was too steep for a lawn, so my mother planted the whole thing with daylilies, orange as well as yellow and maroon. Glorious every summer. When my folks retired, the young couple who bought their home named their daughter Lily after Mom’s garden. (OK, now I’m all verklempt!)
JeanneT
The purple daylily with the green throat looks like Summer Wine, a very dependable flower in my garden. None of the others look familiar – you got some fancy ruffle and color combos in that bundle.
MomSense
My gardens are all weeds and sadness. I had a bumper crop of blackberries which get lots of sun but they also impale everyone that comes in the side door. Why plant blackberries there? There is a giant raspberry patch but it was planted in full shade so only the berries on the outside ripen.
I’ve been so busy that Inhavent been able to do anything out there except mow constantly. Like three times a week. The soil is much different in Central Maine. I’m going to do some testing before I plant next year so I know what to add.
My aunt is visiting next weekend. We are going to tour some gardens and I’m going to ply her with good vegan food and hopefully get some garden design assistance.
Suburban Mom
@WereBear: Yes, I have daffs which do well and the deer also don’t mess with my Siberian iris and peonies. Maybe they just haven’t found them yet. I would like to grow mid to late season flowers that don’t get chomped completely. So far this year only the hydrangeas and crape myrtle retained enough blooms to be attractive.
schrodingers_cat
In my yard they grow like weeds. We live in a daylily friendly environment! I love the bright burst of color in August.
Suburban Mom
@satby: Thanks for that thought. I have beds all around the house and the edges of the yard. I’m thinking I could try the chicken wire around one large bed in the front of the house to see how it goes. I just put a raised bed with a tall fence in the back for veggies. Fingers crossed.
SkyBluePink
Lovely pictures! And a new shop to feed my flower addiction.
For the first time the deer ate the day lily buds. They also got the Asiatic lilies just as they were about to open. And the hostas not in the fenced area for the dog. Oh well.
Leto
@satby: those are so pretty and colorful! We have day lilies out back in the side bed, but they’re all a singular color: yellow. I’ve added in other flowering plants there to add more color, as well as elephant ears and ferns, to help complement the littlest, azaleas, and the singular rose bush.
StringOnAStick
It’s Echinacea going nuts in our yard right, maybe I’ll take some photos for a Sunday garden chat submission.
I’m finding out that the soil is much more sandy than I realized; I’ve always had clay soils before, so the very hot summer showed that my drop irrigation system needs to be doubled because once you get 4″ away from the built in emitters , it’s dry as a bone. Retrofitting is going to be difficult so I’m doing it where I can right now, more once winter comes.
JAM
We had a few days of nice weather, then got about 5 inches of rain in one night, then the heat came back and turned it into a jungle sauna. I am waiting for the weather to turn again so I can stand to mow it.
satby
@StringOnAStick: I was away all day, but the number of plants I killed because I didn’t realize how sandy the soil here is and how dry it would be the day after a good rain number in the dozens. I added a compost- biochar mixture for new plantings and as side dressing surrounding established shrubs, and it really helped. Now I do it yearly.
Don
Daylillies are my favorite. The variety of colors is amazing. We have a hybridizer near us–okay, in Texas, a hundred-fifty miles is pretty near–who dazzles us every year with new colors and styles. These were so pretty I had to look at them a second time.