Summer Flowers A’blooming
It was a beautiful day Sunday so I decided to take some photos of the yard. Please excuse my first attempt at “garden photography!”
Our daylilies have started blooming, even a stray that ended up in the would-be compost heap. The yellow cultivar is ‘Going Bananas’, which from what I understood from the tag is the improved version of ‘Happy Returns’. It has bigger blooms and sets flowers for a longer period of time.
The pink/mauve one are ‘Always Afternoon’. To save money on plants for our retaining wall, I purchased 3 pots of daylilies and one pot of iris. I was able to split them before planting and covered almost the entire area with them. They looked pretty bad last fall after they were planted, but they came back and are doing wonderful! D is especially happy since he saw how small and chlorotic they looked last fall.
We also have a small rhubarb, garlic, and then the iris’s that haven’t started blooming yet. Can’t wait for my lavender to get bigger next year! It’s so puny right now…
First time growing garlic. We love garlic and can’t wait to try our homegrown bulbs!
I will definitely need to divide that hosta next spring!
I just bought this little rhubarb this year at the annual Master Gardener’s spring sale. So far with the garlic right there and the occasional cat living under our deck, I haven’t had any pest damage! I did recess a tuna can in case I needed to flip it over and fill it with beer to get rid of the slugs, but amazingly haven’t had to do so yet. Wondering if it has anything to do with it being a slightly raised bed.
Cute, stray daylily. Probably ‘Happy Returns’. And my terribly weedy “garden” I keep putting off cleaning. May always comes and goes so fast!
You have a beautiful yard there.
Thank you!
I love the photo of “Going Bananas”. They are so beautiful.
I can never get over how well their ruffled petals look in comparison to the smpooth velvety varieties.
We love our Happy Returns (sort of like the Going Bananas) which are simply the best dwarf reblooming daylilies. They seem to thrive without full sun which is nice because I can plant them in nooks where others fail me. I order my rebloomers from Spring Hill Nursery where did you get yours?
I am with you on the hosta. I dread splitting mine up but it is 4 years old and pouring out of my shady landscaping.
Have a great holiday weekend. I’ll follow you on Twitter because I too am a huge fan of staying local.
Mike
Thank you! I got mine from Peck’s Nursery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa when I was visiting. They have specialty items many of the other garden centers don’t. A burgundy daylily is now blooming. It has a light yellow throat and is quite tall for a daylily. It’s just gorgeous!
You have a very colorful garden, must be nice to kick back and relax there.
We recently dug up the weedy area behind the lone daylily. It will soon be a fire pit area with space for veggies and perennials. There are no fences and the backyards merge creating a park-like setting. I’m very excited to get this new project done!
I was cleaning out the garage and found some plant tags. The yellow daylilies are ‘Going bananas’, the pink daylilies are ‘Rosy returns’, and our most recent bloomer is the burgundy ‘Catherine Neal’.