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!
