Something about a good old fashioned thunderstorm is such a treat. The kind where the birds are still singing, and there is no big “!” in a red triangle on your weather forecast information. We need the rain, and this one was perfect!
It took forever this year to get the first scapes on the daylilies! That matched perfectly with so many other things I have needed to be patient on recently. It seems to be a theme …
Anyway, the first daylily scapes are here!!!
Fittingly, the first ones (I saw at least) are on the South Seas daylily – yes, my favorite.
Another very close favorite is the Purple D’Oro, and that has a few new scapes too.
The most surprising of all is the peach daylily that had the smooshing and breakage from the roof project now has a scape! Hurray!!!
I have never had cedar mulch produce a mini forest the next spring. Hmmmmm.
Can you see the hosta and daylily babies through the tree seedlings? Some are a bit chewed down. Others, like the Blue Mouse Ears are not touched.
Now you see it
Now you don’t
It was actually a surprise remnant from a hosta I moved last year, so no big. Bunimous has good taste – 🤣
The sunsets always amaze me, but every once in a while they are so beautiful they need to be shared more widely.
I have spent a fair amount of time in the townhouse gardens lately – yet these scapes did not catch my eye until yesterday. How is that possible? Maybe because the asian lilies are blooming. Maybe because I am looking for the first daylily scapes.
Welcome first (hosta) scapes!
The roofs, gutters, fascia project work is all done. It was a long month of very much activity around here, which was a good thing, but I am glad it’s done. Yesterday we put the pictures back on the walls inside (it was recommended to remove them during the roof replacement). Then we moved outside and started really assessing the gardens – what needs love this season.
The gardens here will be refreshed this fall. And we know a bush out front will be removed to make way for the new gutter drain system. So not too much extra work in the garden this season will be smart until we know what all that looks like. But we can do a few things. A little fun. Adding the garden decorations back, planting a gift of zucchini plants in a pot (we can’t grow veggies in the ground per townhome regulations), moving the green shamrock to a shady spot out front, and maybe, just maybe, a couple coneflowers to fill in a bare spot in the back garden. Hey, they were at the farmer’s market and they, how does the saying go, chose me ☺️
So, we put one foot in front of the other, and say thanks for the weekend of time to finally relax.
The clematis are now done blooming, as is the weigelia, and next up are the asian lilies. This is what some looked like a few days ago.
I remember when the garden out back was pink and purple asian lilies and (purple) Siberian irises – 19 years ago. The Siberian irises were a bit too crowding in the greenery department, and moved to my mother-in-law’s much larger garden. But the asian lilies are still there – they came up peach year two and have been peach ever since. For 18 years. Multiplied and divided and new growth started. Just consistently showing up each year in the same area in the back gardens. Nice.
I added pink Asian lilies year three in another area in the back gardens, and those multiplied and divided and I started new groupings. Every year they come up in the same areas. Nice.
A friend and I swapped divisions of our Asian lilies, and I got some tall white lilies from her. Every year they come up in the back gardens too. Very nice.
Under the linden, the deep pink Asian lilies are also a fixture.
And out front one pink Elodie stand still remains. Asian lilies do not have as much staying power out front, but that one bunch continues.
Much is the same, and much is up in the air. But little by little, we move forward.
It looks like the peach daylilies will kick off the color show.
The elusive Blue Mouse Ears Weigela 😃
I should have taken a pic before the rain. The bloom was right on top.
This is a bird bath? Oh! We thought it was a water dish!
The 19 year old wiegelia blooms again!!!
