It’s early summer and the daylilies are blooming, with more opening every day. We have about 400 daylily cultivars in the garden, so it’s exciting to see what has opened in the past 24 hours. But that’s not all that’s going on out there. The hostas are beginning to bloom. You can see the lavender […]
The twins and their daddy stopped by this morning. The girls heard Pa say something about the raspberries being ripe and they were off like a shot. Time to pick! Wearing Ma’s garden hat… We’re looking forward to a good crop. And lots of help picking. 🙂 ~~Rhonda
Wondering why we went to Memphis to go to a zoo instead of to St. Louis? Much as we love the St. Louis zoo, they don’t have pandas. And the girls wanted to see pandas. When we looked up the nearest panda place, it turned out to be Memphis. Four hours away isn’t too bad. […]
The garden continues to surprise us with the earlier than usual bloom times. The daylilies are beginning to bloom, with more open each day. They are running two to three weeks earlier than the earliest dates we’ve recorded in the past. Here are a few pretty ones. ‘Jason Salter’ ‘Tiger Track’ ‘New Journey’ ‘Sorrento Song’ […]
Do you remember how beautiful the hosta ‘Sagae’ looked this spring? Well, the redbud tree it was under was dying and had to be cut down a week ago. Our many grateful thanks to our friend Paul and the crew members he sent over to help us out with that tree and several other projects! […]
The weather yesterday and today has been beautiful. Mild temperatures and a nice breeze. A couple of near perfect days. The hydrangeas continue to look beautiful. This smaller plant is a few years old. It grew from one of our older plants and we moved it around the corner. This year, it has quite a […]
Though the daylilies are beginning to bloom, the garden is a little sparse on color right now. The earliest daylilies, like ‘Black Eyed Susan,’ ‘Stella d’Oro,’ and ‘Bitsy,’ are blooming well. Others are just beginning to open, like ‘Priceless Pearl.’ While we wait on the daylilies, there are a lot of other things to see. […]