June in January – Hostas and Peach Asian Lillies

Mid June is prime time for our Asian lilies. These pics were taken on June 15, 2024.

Teapot Bouquet and a Hosta

Here are a couple fun pics – both from 2023.

The first one is a teapot that my Mom gave my sister as a fun little treat. Not expensive. Mom said dollar store. My sister had it at her place for a while and then asked my Mom and I if either one of us wanted it next. I said yes. I have had it out every January to Easter, a promise of springtime to come. Bonus – I don’t have to pull any fading flowers or change any stale water 🙂 I have never used it for a teapot, I just enjoy the decoration. Why I took this pic back then, I’m not sure. Sometimes the prism I have on a window ledge (from an old wind spinner that came apart) will cast a cool rainbow of color. Maybe it just didn’t come through on the picture, but I saved it anyway? The binder in the background is our household management binder. I must have had it out that day (January 8, 2023), along with, it looks like, a photo frame. Might have been a busy day or so, and when I sat down to relax in my recliner, I thought it all looked cool together 😉 Anyway, it came up in my pics today, and I thought it would be fun to share 🙂

The second one is today’s “June in January” picture. It is one of my favorite hostas, and one that survived last year’s loss of so many hostas, thank goodness. It was just putting out blooms from a scape on June 8, 2023.

Be Blessed!

Back to it

I took a couple weeks off garden work when our 2nd grandson was born. Yesterday was “get back to it” day. 4 1/2 buckets of clover and forget-me-nots left the gardens and it looks great again.

As the Asian lilies wrap up

and the Elegans hostas stand in the background

The Blue Mouse Ears are starting to steal the show

The big Just Plum Happy daylily is getting it’s scapes

The daylily seedlings are starting to outgrow the seedling box and are gradually getting exposed to the wider world

And the lavender from the old seeds is standing guard as a deterrent to bunny munching

Oh yes, it’s a thing

The coneflower in the back is completely gone, and this is what remains of the one in front.

But it is a cute little one, right?

Note to self – buy more lavender seeds next year.

While We Were “Out”

Our second grandson was born last Friday! That whole week was a non-gardening week. We absolutely were in the gardens, but with our two year old grandson. I watched with sheer joy as he followed the garden path wearing his cute little camo Crocs, pausing to pick up rocks, and dump them on other plants. Wait!!! What is happening here? Has my brain turned to Grandma mush? Perhaps.

While we were “out”, the daylilies got scapes. The South Seas is the one that first caught my eye,

but the Purple D’Oro and the Just Plum Happy are not far behind

We are getting some bonus clematis blooms.

And the Asian lilies are already in mid-seaon.

The hostas deserve a blog post of their own (coming up).

Baby is doing very well, 2 year old grandson already has our next “date” on our calendar, and somewhere in between work, building out the cabin up north, and grandchildren time, I need to pull all the forget-me-nots that are done blooming and are going to seed.