Sunday, July 15, 2018

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day -July 2018


Today, it is the 15th of the month  time for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.  Since we last met on June 15, we have had a number of 90 plus degree days (and some heavy rains) to encourage the summer flowers in my zone 5b garden near Binghamton, New York. 

As I write this, it is 87 degrees (30.5 C) with high humidity. 

Thunderstorms and rain yesterday gave everything a nice drink, and clouds are puffing up nicely already. 

I have so many flowers I can't even show them all.  Isn't that a wonderful thing? (I'll especially think so next March, when I desperately scour my house for the tiniest bloom).
My day lilies are blooming "full speed ahead".  I tried looking at my July 15, 2011 post to see if I could identify any, but all the photos were missing!
I've had this one for many years.  It may have been bought with the orange lilies further explained below.
This one may be my favorite, but I love them all.  My gardening motto is along the line of the first verse of the old Girl Scout tune "Make new friends, but keep the old...."

Like this one.

Here's one almost at the end of its bloom.

This short one may (or may not) be Stella d'Oro, which have become ubiquitous here, but I don't think so because it does not rebloom.  This is what it looked like about 10 days ago - I wanted to show it to you at its peak. This was a closeout from a local nursery - I think I got it about three or four years ago.

Pink and yellow.

This, in a semi-shade location in my back yard, is my oldest lily - I think I've had it some twenty five years.  I think I bought it mail order from a nursery in Ohio with the purple ones above.  Not sure why I couldn't get this picture turned around, but I think the angle looks kind of neat.

I bought several of my day lilies from Cutler Botanic Gardens in Binghamton, New York.  They, in turn, had gotten them from an elderly gentlemen, and I got them at a bargain price - but, in return, they couldn't give me a name or even, in some cases, a color.  Oh well, I end up losing the names anyway!

A couple of others were purchased at a plant show in Charleston, South Carolina (making sure they would work in my zone).  I should go back years through my July GBBD posts to find out what some of these are.  
And one more.

Next year, hopefully four new daylilies will be joining these in bloom.  I bought them during a vacation visit to a day lily nursery near Penn Yan, New York.  
They were in bud, but with the shock of travel, and not being able to plant them for three days, almost all the buds fell off.  Hopefully, the plants will survive.

I have so many other blooms, I made a couple of collages.  I'm especially fond of the petunia in the middle, called Cream Ray.

Thank you once again to Carol at May Dreams Gardens, who makes Garden Bloggers Bloom Day possible each 15th of the month.

Day 15 of the Ultimate Blog Challenge #BlogBoost

15 comments:

  1. Wow! Almost all of my Day Lilies have already bloomed, so I very much enjoyed seeing your beauties!
    Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!

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  2. What beautiful lilies. Alana! I especially like the marroon (crimson one near the top). and orange-colored ones halfway down. I have Solomon's something in my back garden that I love. I think I had some orange-colored lilies at the end of my patch, too.
    Thanks for sharing!
    Amy

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  3. I envy those with a green thumb! Thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures of your flowers!

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  4. What a wonderful diversity of daylilies you have - and all of them beautiful!

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  5. They're gorgeous! I especially like the ones with ruffles along the edge. I have a friend on the coast of Maine who also has the most beautiful day lilies. When I'm there you can find me dead heading them.

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  6. Beautiful! I did some temp work in a flower shop a few years back and really came to love lilies!

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  7. I was just reading about some app where you take pictures of wildlife and it matches it to what kind of critter it is. They should totally do that with plants and flowers, too. I bet it would be very useful to you. (And you wouldn't have to worry about losing names ;)

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  8. What a collection of Day lilies ...all of them are spectacular ...I only have orange one in my garden.
    HAve a great week

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  9. I love your daylilies! We struggle to keep them all labeled in our garden too. We haven't counted in a while, nor updated the spreadsheet, but I expect we have over 200 at this point.

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  10. Daylilies were my Mom's favourite so I they have a special place in my heart. And 25 years? What a fabulous gift and collection you have.

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  11. Oops. This is a duplicate comment post I think. Sorry about that.I LOVE your day lily collection.

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  12. Daylilies, there is no such thing as too many. Yours are beautiful.

    Jeannie@GetMetoTheCountry

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