Daylily seed pods

A beautiful sight – a ripened daylily seed pod. The spiders seem to like it too. Hopefully, the seeds are viable.

Can you see it?

Ever so slowly, the Autumn Joy sedum are starting to pink up.

Look up!

The daylilies are all done blooming. I miss the morning discoveries. I am reminding myself to look up – to the joy of the gorgeous sky, even on, no wait, especially on, cloudy days.

Can’t explain this – yet

A couple interesting things I noticed in the garden this year –

This very healthy hosta has a small area of variegation. I have seen this in years past pictures too. i’m wondering if one of our bee or bird friends accomplished something new next to the existing hosta, or if it has to do with sun exposure. It looks very healthy. That puckering has always been like that. It also easily gets things trapped on the leaves – but that has always been that way too. Some snowy day in January I will have to do more research.

This past week I also noticed the Ivory Queen hosta has a few white blooms with purple veining this year. Usually they are all purple. My husband even pointed it out.

Interesting. I don’t mind white blooms but I am curious.

I’m guessing sun exposure may play into that one as well. That hosta gets a lot of sun exposure, most intensely in mid June to mid July. I try to shield it with lawn chair placement during that time but eventually I will swap it out. Just not sure with what. A daylily would be too vulnerable there.

Maybe a low growing sedum would do well there. Maybe one of the breakage rootings.

Better stuff

I say no to some very “good” stuff, so I can make time for better stuff. Sometimes there isn’t a choice, but when there is – think. Time is finite. Use your voice. Make that choice. And then … Rejoice!

Here’s some Rejoice in the Garden time

Walk around the garden. Maybe sit right in the middle of the garden

It’s like a lottery ticket

The intentional crosses we did with daylilies this year have all have failed.

It got me to thinking – crossing daylilies is like buying a lottery ticket. Winning big will probably not be the outcome. But it is a dreamy idea for a while.

We will try again next year 🙂

More shamrock goodness

The start of the sedum blooms (2022)

I am watching and waiting for the Autumn Joy sedum blooms to begin to turn color.

While I wait, the Chocolate Drop sedum and the Sundazzle sedum are beginning to bloom.

Soon

Soon the Autumn Joy sedum buds will start to turn, slowly, from green to pink to magenta.

We need some September color in the gardens. And Mums are not my thing 😉

Cedar Waxwing and Coral Majority

Coral Majority has been in our garden for a couple years, but just bloomed this year. It is a super interesting daylily. The first bloom stayed partially open all day. I liked it – just was surprised. The next bloom opened almost flat, but it took all day, and that day had a late rain.

The “outside” of daylilies are as beautiful (to me) as the inside. When this bloom opened flat, the only way to capture the “outside” of it was up. And what a treat, to capture Cedar Waxwing’s seed pod in that process! I did not anticipate that 🙂

Cedar Waxwing was also in its second year in the garden here. Wow! I am pretty excited about the future of that daylily! In the “olden days”, I would have ordered a couple more Cedar Waxwings to accompany this first one, but alas, there is no more room at the inn. Although … there are a few fading hostas …

Nah, better keep a good balance.

I did try a cross with Marque Moon, but sadly, that one failed. The pollinators we’re successful though, so hopefully those seeds will survive and be viable and germinate.