Daylily Photos of the Day

I’m enjoying my daily daylily constitutional.  It does me good to get out on the leg, and make it do some work, even with the aid of crutches.  There are few things I enjoy more than wandering about with my camera around my neck, capturing beautiful things.

Blooming beauties today included the above photo-subjects as well as a number of those which were pictured in yesterday’s post.

I’m particularly pleased with H. ‘Marilyn Siwik’, not the least because it’s taken so long for the darned thing to bloom.  I planted that bed back in … heck, when was it, 2006?  Yes, I believe so, because part of the reason I decided to plant daylilies on that side of the driveway was so that I would have some where Mom could see them.  Mom passed away in November of  ’06, but she at least got to enjoy those that bloomed the first year for a little while.  This particular daylily, though, did not bloom that year — nor the next — nor the next!  I was about to give up on it, or at least try it in a different location, when suddenly this year it’s gorgeous!  It’s much more ruffled than I’d expected,with a lovely blend of hot colors centered around that subtle red eye.

Another in that bed I’m eagerly awaiting blooms on is H. ‘Wisest of Wizards’. ‘WOW’ bloomed like crazy the first year, practically died off over the winter, and hasn’t bloomed again.  This year, though, the plant has returned full force, even spread out considerably, and it has a number of scapes.  It also has a child — which did, in fact, bloom last year.  In the same bed is a cross I did of ‘WOW’ with H. ‘Outrageous’, whose bud-loaded parent clump was pictured in yesterday’s gallery.

I need to see if I can hunt down that rather heirloom-looking brownish spidery cultivar.  I have a long listing of plants that were donated that day at the HADS work-day for their Faddegon’s sale.  I haven’t yet had a lot of luck matching unknowns to the list, and this one has been no exception.  It doesn’t really match any of the descriptions given.  I quite like it, even though it may be somewhat simple and plain.  I guess it’s more a “classic”, similar to good old H. Fulva in form, rather than a true spider, but I wasn’t really sure what to call it.  Regardless, I intend to enjoy it!  If anyone recognizes it, let me know!

There will probably be very frequent updates to the garden journal section of gazehound.com, for as long as I can get out there with my camera for a stretch every day.  I’ll try not to overload you with a lot of repeat photos, but I can’t make any promises.  You never know when some cute little blossom will jump out at me and say “Cheese!”

Related posts:

1. Sunny Daylily Day
2. Daylily Pictures, July 14th and 15th
3. Daylily Macro Photography