tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-149035472009-11-28T22:50:48.565-05:00Every day my garden changes. I record the changes photographically, but now I want to keep a journal. This is my journal.Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06158346138596472638kbphilosophy@gmail.comBlogger438125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14903547.post-34465754340766640572009-11-14T10:49:00.002-05:002009-11-14T11:03:32.013-05:00

We've had a pretty mild November. We're getting frost at night, but the ground is still soft, and the air warms up nicely during the day when the sun is shining. We can still get by with our light jackets.In the garden, bare space and browns and oranges predominate where once everything was fresh and green.Here are some photos showing November in the garden.Camperdown ElmJapanese Anemone Gone to

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So I went about my garden taking note of all the "last" daylilies -- plants whose blooms are all but spent for the season -- and I was amazed to discover a first bloom among them. I think this is the final one in my collection, Royal Palace Prince.Royal Palace PrinceI checked, and although it has bloomed as early as July 29 in earlier, drier years, last year (also wet) it bloomed on August 14,

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Every year I post a mosaic of daylily photos. Usually I just do a 4 by 4 square, but this year I have created the maximum size available, a 6 by 6 square.Believe me it takes a long time and a lot of fiddling to create one of these things. I thought I was soooo careful, but it looks like I still didn't get quite the "unique" effect I was going for (as in all photos unique, and all daylilies unique

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My newest seedling bloomed today for the very first time ever.I played bumblebee with my daylilies in 2006 and 2007, collected seeds and planted them. And neglected them. (But not entirely.) Some grew anyway.I call them the strong ones.First there was Offspring that bloomed in a forgotten corner of the garden in 2008.My First SeedlingPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedThen there was another

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We've had some young robins (or maybe it's the same one?) hanging around the house and garden for the past couple of days. Thought you might like to see some photos.Young Robin on the BirdbathPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedRobins Resting Near BuddhaPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedAnd this one spent some time on our porch railing.Philosophical Karen © all rights reservedA lot of

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The title refers to the last photo in the post.New BloomsThree new first blooms in the past two days (four, if you count the disappointing 'Africa'), but that might be it now for the year.So, for first blooms we had 'Snowy Eyes' and 'David Kirchoff' on Sunday, and 'Franz Hals' today.Snowy EyesPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedDavid KirchoffPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedFranz

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Well, the "new" blooms are sort of slowing down now, since we are getting into the late part of the daylily season. But I have a few from the last couple of days I can show you.On July 29, there was Grand Masterpiece and Trahlyta. I only had time to rush around the garden with my iPhone to try and get some photos, since I was very busy that day. Grand MasterpiecePhilosophical Karen © all rights

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First, the triumph. In 2004 I planted one of my first few daylily acquisitions, Scatterbrain, in the back garden in a place where it was slowly overwhelmed by periwinkle. Every year I hoped in vain to see it bloom again. Last year I finally got smart and moved it into the bed under the Deborah maple. And this year it has rewarded me by thriving and blooming.Scatterbrain (Triumph)Philosophical

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So, we had horrible pelting rain to deal with today. This should surprise no one, because it's Saturday, and therefore the weekend. By this year's predictable pattern, the weather was bound to be poor.Pelting rain is never good for daylilies. Especially today's Woodside Rhapsody. Its first bloom came out like this.Woodside RhapsodyPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedThree years ago, the same

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And still they keep on coming...The last white daylily to bloom this year is Joan Senior. This one is always late in my garden, but other people's bloom earlier.Joan SeniorPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedAnother seedling plant, this one in its second year of blooming, had a flower today. I call this one Offspring. (It sounds better than "seedling number one".)First SeedlingPhilosophical

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After yesterday's post on white daylilies, wouldn't you know, Sunday Gloves would bloom today.Sunday GlovesPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedAt first glance it is very similar to Ice Carnival, except perhaps slightly more ruffled. Because of a rainstorm this morning, the more substantial daylilies are covered in raindrops. The less sturdy ones have melted away. That's why I am not showing

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This is going to be another daylily-centered post. No surprises there. But as well as today's first blooms, I wanted to showcase the three white daylilies that are blooming today, even though they've been seen here already.Ice CarnivalPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedTuesdayPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedDad's Best WhitePhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedStill to bloom

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First blooms today include six daylilies displaying flowers for the first time this year. MariskaPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedDruids ChantPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedIt was a dull and rainy day, so that many of the newest blooms seemed to have trouble opening.DarksidePhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedWell if that's what the dark side looks like, I don't want to go

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Well, last year we created a daylily bed and purposely planted it full of mid-to-late season daylilies (except for Little Red Spring Song, which is actually the earliest of my daylilies, the only one that bloomed in June this year).So, now that mid-season is in full swing, what does the bed look like? Here is a photo taken today.Daylily BedPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedRight now most

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There are six new daylily blooms today, most of which are really SPECTACULAR! (Um, except for the first two I am going to show you.)Siloam Merle Kent didn't do too badly, but its first flower is unfortunately blemished with white spots.Siloam Merle KentPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedBut this new one, Ivory Edges -- for which I have high hopes of beautiful blooms in future -- really

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Several new first blooms today. We are getting towards mid to late season, so a whole new cohort is coming up.Nile Crane had two first blooms today. One nice, one awful. I took a photo of the nicer one of the two.Nile CranePhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedI am so pleased that Flore-Pleno -- a daylily I got from a friend's garden (actually her driveway, literally a corner where the asphalt

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Only one new daylily today: Pandora's Box. But I am going to include some examples of daylilies I have shown before, to flesh out the post. For example, Always Afternoon got beaten up by rain when it first bloomed. Today, however, I managed to get a great photo of a near-perfect flower. I think the plant deserves to be seen at its best.First, however, I will unleash Pandora's Box.Pandora's

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A few more first blooms today. The mid-to-late season daylilies in the new daylily bed planted last year are starting to bloom, with yesterday's 'Justin Miller' and today's 'Green Eyes Wink' and 'Tuesday'.Green Eyes WinkPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedTuesdayPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedThen there is my favourite small dark daylily, 'Cricket Dance'. As usual the camera has

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Well, in some circles it's Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I don't usually participate, but boy do I have a lot of blooms in my garden today. This won't be a text-heavy post, because there are a lot of photos to display, and I spent the evening watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the theatre tonight. But I digress...First, here are the first blooms so that I have a journal record of

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Well, I skipped posting yesterday because both the flowers and the photos were nothing special. I used my regular 18-55 zoom lens instead of the prime f1.7, and on top of that the bright sunlight was very strong. So the photos are quite ordinary. Also, my daylily 'Root Beer', which I purchased from Floral and Hardy Gardens to add to my collection of dark daylilies, has turned out to be a weak and

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Today there are two firsts in the garden, along with some notable second blooms.Of course, recording first blooms is of paramount importance here. The lovely 'Raspberry Swirl' showed her stuff today.Raspberry SwirlPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedAnd then we have 'Cimarron Knight'. He usually chooses a rainy day to exhibit his first bloom, so I was expecting something yesterday. But no.

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"Northern" climate gardening (I hesitate with that, because there is a whole lot more North that is north of here) can be both tricky and rewarding. One of the things that is particularly tricky and rewarding is growing perennials in planters and having them come back year after year. I have to admit that my knowledge of this came pretty much out of my more laissez-faire approach to gardening in

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Today's batch of first blooms includes two strong reds and a delicate pink.The two red daylilies blooming today are 'Executive Decision' and 'Little Business'.Executive DecisionPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedLittle BusinessPhilosophical Karen © all rights reservedThe pink is my no-fail showstopper, 'Barbara Mitchell'. This daylily has a kind of understated elegance as it peeks out from

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So today I attached the 50mm prime f1.7 lens to the camera and went out to take some glamour shots of today's new blooms, plus a few other flowers that caught my eye. (Yes, that means I am mobile now, but still forbidden from bending down too far. So I can take photos, but not do any of the digging and weeding that is so desperately needed in the garden. But I digress...) Anyway, take a look at

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Well, I had a feeling I'd see some first blooms today, and I was right!And today's are all pretty nice ones, too. It isn't always that way, as my previous years' posts will show. That's where the journal aspect of this blog is useful: for comparison. I just open up "July" for each of the previous years, and take a look at the blooming dates for the various daylilies. Sometimes they are exactly

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