December 2008 Archives

Today's new blooms:

Snowy Eyes


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Root Beer


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Catherine Woodbury


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Siloam Merle Kent


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Strawberry Candy


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Switching topics from new blooms to existing blooms, here is a photo demonstration of the Sabine Baur/Alaqua twins, as originally discussed here, and more recently (that is, within the past few days) here. To summarize, I bought these as two separate plants. Alaqua is supposed to be neat and petite, but came out big and relaxed. So now these two are unintentional twins.

Sabine Baur


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Alaqua


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EDITED TO ADD: I missed one. I think I can guess how I missed Daring Deception. My photo came out a little blurry and I probably meant to go and take another one, but forgot. Oh well, here is the photo anyway. I made it small so the blurriness doesn't show as much.



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At this point in the summer, the midseason daylilies are slowing down, and the late season bloomers are not yet coming into play. I am talking only of first blooms, of course. Collectively, the daylily plants in my garden are blooming their hearts out.

Wayside King Royale Has Four Blooms Today


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With all those flowers, it soon becomes very important for the beauty of the garden to make sure the spent blooms are removed. This is called deadheading. Deadheading is a sticky, messy job, especially with the record-breaking rainfall we've had this summer. Even in a dry year, spent blooms can be gooey, but this year picking off the day-old flowers is slimy business. Every last one is waterlogged. Ugh!

(Note: I have previously written about deadheading here and here. You can see how things change over the years.)

Daylilies Need Deadheading

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Squishy, Gooey, Spent Daylily Blooms

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Yesterday we had another big storm (sadly, they are all too common this summer) with buckets of rain and hail and other silly stuff coming out of nowhere and dumping on us. I'm surprised the flowers survived as well as they did. Here are a couple of new blooms today.

Mariska


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Joan Senior


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I'm not sure what to say about Peach Magnolia. I think it's trying to bloom, but I'm having trouble figuring out what to call this. It's past being a bud, but do I count it as a first bloom or not?

Peach Magnolia


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We're in for another storm this afternoon, so I don't know how it will fare. I hope it survives the rain and actually opens up later.
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Today's new blooms:

Snowy Eyes


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Root Beer


Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

Catherine Woodbury


Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

Siloam Merle Kent


Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

Strawberry Candy


Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

Switching topics from new blooms to existing blooms, here is a photo demonstration of the Sabine Baur/Alaqua twins, as originally discussed here, and more recently (that is, within the past few days) here. To summarize, I bought these as two separate plants. Alaqua is supposed to be neat and petite, but came out big and relaxed. So now these two are unintentional twins.

Sabine Baur


Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

Alaqua


Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

***
EDITED TO ADD: I missed one. I think I can guess how I missed Daring Deception. My photo came out a little blurry and I probably meant to go and take another one, but forgot. Oh well, here is the photo anyway. I made it small so the blurriness doesn't show as much.



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Copyright © all rights reserved. All text and images in this post belong to kbgardenblog.blogspot.com.

At this point in the summer, the midseason daylilies are slowing down, and the late season bloomers are not yet coming into play. I am talking only of first blooms, of course. Collectively, the daylily plants in my garden are blooming their hearts out.

Wayside King Royale Has Four Blooms Today


Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

With all those flowers, it soon becomes very important for the beauty of the garden to make sure the spent blooms are removed. This is called deadheading. Deadheading is a sticky, messy job, especially with the record-breaking rainfall we've had this summer. Even in a dry year, spent blooms can be gooey, but this year picking off the day-old flowers is slimy business. Every last one is waterlogged. Ugh!

(Note: I have previously written about deadheading here and here. You can see how things change over the years.)

Daylilies Need Deadheading

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Squishy, Gooey, Spent Daylily Blooms

Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

Yesterday we had another big storm (sadly, they are all too common this summer) with buckets of rain and hail and other silly stuff coming out of nowhere and dumping on us. I'm surprised the flowers survived as well as they did. Here are a couple of new blooms today.

Mariska


Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

Joan Senior


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I'm not sure what to say about Peach Magnolia. I think it's trying to bloom, but I'm having trouble figuring out what to call this. It's past being a bud, but do I count it as a first bloom or not?

Peach Magnolia


Philosophical Karen © all rights reserved

We're in for another storm this afternoon, so I don't know how it will fare. I hope it survives the rain and actually opens up later.
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Copyright © all rights reserved. All text and images in this post belong to kbgardenblog.blogspot.com.