Daylily Time 2022

I wait all year for this time.  

Daylilies are blooming.

Why not stop your Internet browsing and spend a few minutes here?  Sit down, have a rest.

 I love day lilies so much, my zone 5b Southern Tier of New York front yard is crammed with them.  My back yard has too much shade for them but I have been able to grow some others on the part sun side of my house.

Day lilies are not true lilies, incidentally, which is a good thing because the red lily beetle isn't attracted to them.

I've bought these at a combination of plants sales including our local Cornell Cooperative plant sale, a plant sale we lucked into years ago in Charleston, and a wonderful day lily business in Penn Yan, New York (Finger Lakes region) called Grace Gardens, owned by Tom Rood.  More on Tom a little later.

I can't tell you the variety names because I am a poor record keeper. I could go back in my blog and get some of the names, perhaps, and maybe one day I'll do that.

This possible spider lily only puts out two or three flowers each year, or at least it seems that way.

This is from Grace Gardens and is one of my few double day lilies. This one may be called Bubbly.  Or not.  I should mention here that the late Kathy Rood, who was married to Tom Rood, was an expert daylily hybridizer.

This one is also from Grace Gardens.  It is speckled as I took its picture right after a drizzle shower.

Oh yes, I was going to blog a little bit about Tom Rood. Our world is so small sometimes.  It was interesting that Tom Rood used to work just blocks from where I live, in an industry totally unrelated to growing plants.  The Grace of Grace Gardens was his mother, who loved daylilies.  Tom and Kathy also founded the Finger Lakes Daylily Society.

It was an honor to have met both of them.

This is my only reliable rebloomer.

These pictures (well, almost all of them) were taken July 5.  I have more daylilies out now.  Maybe I'll devote a weekend post to them.