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Why is it the simple things so often turn out to be not quite so simple? Apparently WordPress’s internal gallery feature has decide it doesn’t want to work any more. I saw that people were having trouble with this after upgrading to 2.8, and thought 2.8.1 fixed it. I apparently didn’t have a problem till after the x.1 “fix” … and even then, it worked yesterday, but I can’t access the Gallery feature for photo display today. So, I’ve installed the NextGen gallery plugin and am going to try that.
Please forgive the experimentation!
That said….
It’s another beautiful morning. Yesterday was as well, and then the storms moved in during the evening, and lasted most of the night. I rather enjoy waking to the world washed clean, but it might have been nicer if I’d gotten more sleep last night. Said storms were of the louder variety. We have had rain, aside from two days that I can recall, in some form pretty much every day for several months. I know this is probably good for the gardens, but it does make it rather tedious for campers and picnic fans.
Next Saturday, our New York Wildlife Rescue Center is having their Open House to celebrate the phase one construction of the new raptor housing. I’m truly hoping the weather gods will smile on us that day, and give us an entire day without a soaking. I also hope anyone who lives in the New York Capital District and surrounding, who has followed either my blogs or Wes’s at http://nywildliferescue.blogspot.com, can stop by between 4 and 6 PM on the 18th to see the facility.
Back to the Garden….
I hope you enjoy (for that matter, I hope you can see!) the above pictures. Yes, I know some are duplicates of cultivars I’ve already posted, but I got a couple of nice shots I can’t resist posting. I like to go from West to East in my narratives and photo display, and hope it worked this time.
Hemerocallis ‘Wineberry Candy’, and H. ‘Pandora’s Box’ are blooming on the other side of the driveway again, but the way the sun was hitting them cast some odd shadows over there, so the photos didn’t come out so hot. The first picture for today, if it all displayed properly, then, isn’t actually of a daylily at all. A Nursery Web Spider has taken up residence in my H. ‘Siloam Show Girl’ clump … which is not in bloom yet. She’s built quite a large nest, and it appears to be jam-packed with eggs. Nursery Web Spiders are excellent pest-eaters, and I hope she and her babies might have a taste for such things as Japanese Beetles and Tent Caterpillars. We shall see!
That “Ugly Betty” seedling of mine has given me what is probably the prettiest bloom to date. I caught it with the blue sky above and the Asiatic lilies coloring the backdrop.
H. ‘Demetrius’ has opened for the first time this season. I really should move it forward, as it tends to bloom low (so does its child, H. ‘Matt’, at least in my garden) and I always have to move foliage aside to photograph it. It’s a lovely ruffled light yellow, a nice size bloom, and appears to be quite hardy. It was one of my first named cultivars.
I have more H. ‘Fooled Me’, ‘Silver Run’, “Not Matt”, ‘Always Afternoon’ in bloom today, and though the flowers are lovely, I am not including them, as the pictures weren’t any better than others I’ve already shared. H. ‘Strawberry Candy’ bloomed yesterday, but the flower had rain damage and never opened fully … it’s a prolific little thing, so I’ll wait for some nicer blooms for the photo sessions.
H. ‘Prester John’ has the nicest bloom so far, and I’m pleased to include a shot of it. I love this double, which is probably my only reliably reblooming daylily to date. It will bloom for a long stretch early in the season, and then give me a second run in the late summer. (At least it has, so far.)
The red I believe to be H. ‘Miss Sally’ has a nice one today, and both of the “unknown reds” in the heart garden to the west of the house are in bloom as well. I think the more purplish of the two may be H. ‘Craemore Ruby’, at least in comparison to other photos I’ve seen. The crimson one, as mentioned, bloomed for the first time this season, and it’s quite a striking thing.
Here’s a nice shot, too, of that “not quite a spider, not quite brown, not quite orange” unknown in the heart bed. I am growing fonder of this one each time it blooms. H. ‘Audacity Bound’ is also in bloom in that bed today.
I’d love to hear from visitors who enjoy their daylilies, so please feel free to leave a comment on any of these garden journal posts (or anywhere on the site they’re enabled, for that matter). I do always respond to comments, so your thoughts most definitely won’t go un-noticed. I love to talk daylilies!
