Forrest

Red Daylily

 

Look what showed up today! This is your WalMart red right?

Acapulco

 

My Acapulco showed up. 3 blooms and two stalks, both of a good size so I think it will be fine now.

Surprise unknown

It's a bit ragged but I'm pretty sure it's not Glenbank Twinkle so I'm stumped. Next year I'll know to plant it in the back yard.

Finally Remembered...

I took this photo of the Spiderwort blooming as soon as I noticed it this morning so I wouldn't, yet again, forget! Its so pretty and it made it eventhough Tuk tried to kill it in the spring. It was in the middle of his short cut path. I have been fighting him in the garden all season.

Radiation Biohazard

It's not a very pretty name for a daylily but it sure is a pretty daylily. The centre is a little more lime than shows here. We bought it in bud so the blooms are a little ragged this year. It's big too - like 8" across.

Jake on the brick

Had to weed all day in my rubbers. Too wet to dig so no planting in the end but a lot of weeding got done. Jake kept his feet dry by screaming at me from the brick. Miles took this one.

Waiting for the big ones

The space up by the road is filling in nicely and the heliopsis and bee balm are in full bloom. I think we're still a couple of weeks away from the big Casablanca lilies.

...and then there were three

For some reason, eventhough we have been sharing the garden peacefully for years, this is the year the dogs decided to challenge me They have been digging, stepping on, sleeping on and generally crushing every plant I have, it seems. So everything I have laying around here has been pressed into service as dog protection. I cut up all the tomatoe cages and each made 3 rings. Since I have never grown a tomatoe, I figured I was safe to use them up.

Clematis calamity

One of my Jackmanii clematis in full bloom went over in all the wind and rain we had. It's attached rather precariously to another clematis trellis beside it so I've decided to pull off the rescue mission after it's done blooming.

Monkshood Opening

This is the first year for my Monkshood to bloom. It was new last year from Judy's garden.

The mysterious orange

Can you identify it now?

Found them!

 

I bought another 'Madrid' this year because they are my favourite lily and I thought I had lost them but look what just showed up! Whoo Hoo, I will have 'Madrid' all over the place. If you find any... I don't need them back :)

Taco Twister Take Two

Until this gets to be a big clump, I have to be pretty happy with two blooms in one day.

Rainy Day

Off and on all day. Never long enough to keep me out of the garden when it was stopped but by the end of the day, digging was out of the question.

Bright colours

Front garden in the evening

At Least One

Not sure which one it is but at least one of them is going to bloom!

The Comtesse

'Comtesse de Bouchaud' clematis in full bloom.

Dwarf Blue Flax

I may regret this and I really hope they mean it when they say it is a dwarf but.. I started planting today :)

Jurassic Spider

We bought this one last year at Harbour Breeze Daylilies but after it was done blooming - $25 based on a photo. We're not disappointed at all this year. It's gorgeous - a spider-type bloom 10" across.

Jackpot!

Lavender Mist Meadow Rue (3), sedum (similar to Autumn Joy), Silk Oak Tree (2), Lily 'Northern Sensation' (2), 'Black Out', 'Northern Star' (2), 'Dizzy', 'Easter Morn' (4), 'Northern Dazzle' (3), 'Northern Carillon' (2), 'Starburst Sensation', Iris 'Anaconda Love', sedum 'Garnet Brocade' (3), Daylily 'Night Embers', 'Calico Jack', Dusty Pink Maltese Cross (8), dwarf blue flax (4), Burgundy Blanket Flower (2) and one Mum... Oh, Happy Day!!!!!!

Perfect Preference

What a perfect flower! We don't see too many of these with no bug bites.

Neighbours

She was really not happy with me. I was quite far away but there were babies so it wasn't far enough for her!

New little poppy

I didn't think I was going to see these - 2 plants blooming nowhere near where I put the seeds in the henge. These are seeds we got last summer from either someone Kelly works with or from Harbour Breeze Daylilies. We had 2 types of seeds but hadn't seen either poppy blooming.

Madrid

Still my favourite lily!

Clematis

Finally know which one it is and it  is full of buds. Out by the slide.

New and old

Shopping spree! I got all these for $5/ea. I've had delosperma (aka iceplant) before but it only survived one winter in my rock garden. This time I'll put it somewhere else and give it some winter protection. I've also tried a pink hibiscus in the back garden before with no luck so we're trying again. The heucherella is stunning - the picture doesn't do it justice. A cross between coral bells and tiarella with pale pink flowers.

Tiny white lily

My tiny white lily is back as well - in the orange lily garden. My garden is getting so exciting now and should continue that way for a couple of weeks until all the lily are open.

Sedum in bloom

All along the front wall (and many other places in the garden), the sea stars sedum is blooming. It was one of those first 4 plants I bought way back when you were here and we were on our first plant shopping trip. As you can see the 'Art Deco' dahlia is starting to bloom.

Landini

The second flower opened on the stalk that had the tiny little deformed flower. It is Landini so you can cross that one off the list of ones I don't have. The best part is that when the rain doesn't have 80% of the coneflower on the ground and that single stalk becomes a patch, this spot is going to look awesome!

Bonanza

This is the last of 6 daylilies to bloom that came as roots in a mixed bag 3 springs ago. While we like this one we're disappointed it wasn't different because we already had one like this bloom last year. As it turns out we got 2 each of 3 types in that mixed bag. I'm pretty sure this one is called 'Bonanza' and the other 2 are pink and red.

Weekend is over

Lily went home today. We had her visiting for the weekend. She has a little cold but wasn't miserable about it at all. She slept more though. Made for a quiet weekend.

Not the one we bought

This is supposed to be 'Siloam David Kirchhoff' but it's not. It's a big flower for a daylily - quite impressive - but clashes with the pink phlox beside it so one of them will move before next year.
Note July 21/12: Went to Harbour Breeze Daylilies and the guy gave us the David Kirchhoff we didn't get last year. The one above is 'Siloam Double Classic' - a more expensive daylily as it turns out..

Red, orange and yellow

We arrived home to find all the Asiatic lilies blooming out front!

Hula Lily

It's lily time again! I have way less than I used to but my early orange, hula, orange electric, your yellow and what I think might be Landini all are open with several more to open yet. Of course, until they do open, I have no idea what any of them are!!!

My hula lily showed up in three spots - at the boardwalk edge, in the orange lily garden and in the nursery. One flower covered stalk in each spot. I am going to move at least two of them so they are together. Not sure which or to where yet.

Point Prim Lighthouse

Look familiar?

Lily Location

You know, the easiest part is buying them. The hardest is trying to keep them alive in pots until I finally figure out where to plant them! I moved that small patch of dwarf iris closer to the rock edge, got rid of the lamium and dead tulip leavings and plopped all three of these together in this spot. This is at the front of the boardwalk, the dogwood there is above these lily. Usually I plant annuals in this spot but I am really trying to get away from using annuals, other than in pots. These are short lily so they should work here and eventhough this spot is full of colour in the spring, it really needed something for summer besides viola.

What are we calling this?

 

I had to put another pic of this one up because although it is only one stalk, it is FULL of flowers. What are we calling this one? I can't remember.

Return of the Missing

Here is another of the plants I thought had not come back. Turns out, this is the fourth one that I have found in the last few days. All of them in the oddest places.

New creamy daylily

This one is new for us this year. We raided Ally's daylilies last year, but after they'd already bloomed. Growing daylilies in the fence garden is a bit of an experiment for us this year.

Rose and Babys Breath

This is working out just how I hoped it would  :)

Blue and yellow

A new favourite combo - campanula and coreopsis.

Smelly thing

It smells bad and it attracts flies. It's stands a little over 4' tall and the bloom (if it can be called that) from top to bottom is 21". Only Kelly would need one of these.

Mini

Doesn't this look like a perfect little dwarf? Other than all my dwarf are early blooming and this little guy is blooming waaayyyy late. It is a double blue which are normally very tall. This is one of the iris that spent the winter in a plastic bag beside the house and were forgotten until really late in the spring when I noticed little green bits in the bag. I planted them all and this is the only one that bloomed. Good one to open though because I thought I had lost all my double blue. This is the only one I saw this year at all.

Garden tour

We had this in front of our yard and about 120 people through the garden this afternoon. It was fun but now I'm tired.

Surprise

I have no idea what this is but I have four of them around my garden now. I am hoping I can tell what it is once it blooms.

Hot Papaya

I did a tour of the garden centres today looking for bargains. This is one of them - echinacea 'Hot Papaya'. I also bought 2 gaillardia, a Siberian iris and 2 papyrus.

Lily

Lily got her first wedding invitation but only made it about half way through before she and Nicholas came here.... both hot and tired but it seemed like they had some fun.

Lily 'Tiny Bell'

I know that looks yellow but it really is orange. I am going to try and get a shot of it in the sun tomorrow. It was starting to storm and late evening when I took this one.

Japanese iris

The first bloomed today but this patch has lots of buds so it should be more impressive for Sunday. These are right up at chin level and bigger blooms than any of the bearded iris. The petals are very crepe-ish.