The bed for our anniversary trip daylilies was prepared earlier this year. DH sprayed the grass with round up, then covered the bed with several layers of newspaper, and topped it with five or six inches of wood chips. Then it waited…and waited…and waited…until today. 🙂 First order of business was to take a picture of each flower, then lay the plants out in the order they were to be planted. Had to be sure we didn’t put two of a similar shade next to each other.
DH planted and I made a map of the bed to keep in the daylily binder.
I also made plant tags for each plant.
Planted and tagged. After this picture was taken, we put a soaker hose on it to give them a good drink.
Our thanks to Marty at Aussieker Daylily Farm for her lovely plants and generous bonuses!
~~Rhonda
Today DH and I celebrate 32 years of wedded bliss. 🙂 And, as we have the past five years, we celebrated by visiting a daylily farm! We went to Aussieker’s Daylily Farm near Richview, Illinois.
Prior to our trip, I spent some time on their website making a list of daylilies to look for. Oh, my! Such beautiful flowers! Decisions, decisions!
It was 96* and super humid. Hot, hot, hot. But under the big tree in the yard, there was a lovely breeze and it felt much cooler. Very comfy place to sit and relax.
We filled the trunk…I think we brought home 19 new daylilies! Happy Anniversary to us!! 😀
Tomorrow we plant.
~~Rhonda 🙂
Last evening, I took a few pictures as we documented “first flower out” on the daylilies. If you don’t know what that means…we keep a record of when the first flower appears on each daylily every year. That shows us this year, for instance, that the daylilies are blooming 5 to 7 days earlier than last year. Interesting to us, if not to anyone else! ;-D Anyhoo, here are a few pics from the yard.
I like the way the centers of the purple cone flowers pick up the color of the ‘Baja’ daylily blossoms.
We have clumps of daylilies that haven’t bloomed yet.
Can’t get enough of the garden when it’s daylily season.
There are other things to see in the yard besides the daylilies, though. Queen of the Prairie is blooming by the garage.
And hostas are blossoming.
Don’t the hydrangeas look great?
The butterfly bushes are attracting butterflies and all kinds of other insects.
A gaggle of gooseneck loosestrife…they are wonderful in bouquets, lasting weeks.
We had a little rain shower this afternoon. I took these pictures from under the carport.
Come by. We’ll sit in the swing and watch the butterflies flutter by. Iced tea or lemonade?
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~~Rhonda 🙂
The garden is in full bloom. Daylilies everywhere.
‘Monterrey Jack’
Coreopsis, daisies and purple cone flowers are adding to the riot of color.
The elderberries are blooming, too.
The new bed in the middle is waiting for the daylilies we plan to buy when we go nursery hopping to celebrate our 32nd anniversary.
I need to do something about those upstairs windows. Ever since we cut the two trees down in front of the house, the shades have bothered me. I guess they weren’t noticeable while the pines were covering the view.
The weather has been very hot and extremely humid which makes going out into the garden uncomfortable. But when it looks like it does now, I hate to miss it! Online is an easy way to tour the garden. 🙂 You can tour more gardens at Jean’s Bloomin’ Tuesday. Check it out!
~~Rhonda
I managed to mow the front yard, in spite of the heat and the humidity. And now we’re getting a little thundershower. They pop up this time of day in the summer. Wet, but quick. And they cool the air a bit, so I’m not complaining. I *was* hoping to mow the back yard later, when the temps cooled down this evening, but it may be too wet now that it has rained.
Here are a few pics I took while mowing today. I love my “big” camera (takes wonderful pics!), but DH’s little Canon is great for tucking in my pocket for times when I don’t want to lug the heavier camera around. Like when I’m mowing in the heat/humidity. In case you’re wondering, the building in the background is an office building across the street from our house.
You can click on these pictures to see them on my flickr site, where they can be viewed larger for more detail. When you get to flickr, there should be an “All Sizes” button above the picture. These smaller pics don’t do the flowers much justice!
This shot looks toward the north west corner of our front yard. The red car is on the street in front of our house. People often tell us they drive by our house just to look at the flowers. And a lot of joggers/walkers in town tell us their routes are planned so they can come by the yard when the flowers are blooming. 🙂
We have some UNK (unknown) daylilies around the yard and this is one of them. Not our fault for losing a label or failing to map the flower bed this time. The lady from whom we bought this daylily couldn’t remember the name of it. We stopped by her house when we saw the “plants for sale” sign in the yard. She was 80 some years old and the yard was a mass of daylilies tangled with grass. She insisted on digging them herself. It was hot and I felt guilty about that, but she said “no one digs in my garden but me.” 🙂 We brought six daylilies home from her place and three of them were “unknowns.”
The flower is large, must be 6 or 7 inches across. And a beautiful melon-y orange blending into a bright yellow throat. Gorgeous!
Another one of those orange daylilies I had to have, even though I swore “no more orange ones.” Ha. Can’t resist!!
~~Rhonda 🙂
We had a very hot and humid day for riding lessons. The thermometer said 94* and with the high humidity, the “feels like” temp was 102*. Yucky. But DD enjoyed her lesson, none the less.
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I’m so glad she has this opportunity. She’s loving it and she’s learning an entirely new skill…something she hasn’t had any experience with previously. Though after the lesson in this hot and humid weather, she was soaked. She said, “I’m soaking wet. And it’s not a good wet.” 😀
~~Rhonda
The daylilies are blooming all over the yard. It’s a real pleasure to stroll through the garden to see what has opened each day. And there are a lot more to bloom as you can see in this picture. The daylilies along the front of the bed haven’t blossomed yet.
‘Mary Todd’ is one of my favorite golden yellow daylilies.
The Russian sage is beginning to bloom. I love the light and airy look of this plant. Did you know you can lay a branch of this (still attached to the main plant) on the ground and cover it with a brick to get a new plant? In a couple of months there will be roots on the branch where it contacts the ground. Cut it from the parent plant and you’ve got another Russian sage. You can do the same thing with hydrangeas. 🙂
In the fenced garden, some of my favorite daylilies are beginning to bloom.
Between the back yard and the little woods at the back of our property, the “ditch lilies” are blooming…in the ditch.
At the back door, the ‘Moonbeam’ coreopsis blossoms look like stars sprinkled around the bird bath.
Currently, we have 337 different daylilies in our yard. Tomorrow, when we check the garden, there will probably be 25 or 30 more “first flower out” blossoms to document. I’ll keep you posted. 🙂
~~Rhonda
The flower beds in the front yard are beginning to fill with color again. The daylilies are coming into their own.
The birdbath in the front yard is almost swallowed up by the flowers.
The hydrangeas by the front porch are pink to lavender. Just around the corner of the house, the hydrangeas in front of the addition are blue. Go figure!
We planted the hosta ‘Squash Casserole’ in front of the Japanese maple which sits just to the side of the hydrangea. The hosta will receive more sun in this space and should brighten up quite a bit, turning more yellow. I’m hoping that will be a nice contrast to the maple.
In the back yard, the bird bath bed by the kitchen has a pretty lavender plant coming into bloom. I need to check the lavender plant in the fenced garden to see if it’s blooming, too.
We’re having a plant sale tomorrow. All proceeds from plant sales go to the mission fund at church. We’ll do it again the first of July.
It’s always fun to have visitors in the garden. I’m looking forward to tomorrow. If you’re in the area, stop by! And if you can’t visit our garden, do stop by Jean’s Bloomin’ Tuesday to visit the gardens there!
~~Rhonda
