Today I planted the nine daylilies I received from Oakes Daylilies yesterday. When I won the $50 gift certificate in the not-a-raffle raffle, I was going to buy the Beginners Collection (of course), but I luckily mentioned it to my trusted adviser, Calif_Sue, who told me that some of the daylilies in that collection wouldn't work in zone 9. I ordered the Evergreen Collection (Bitsy, Frank Gladney, Frankly Scarlet, Lavender Vista, Pandora's Box, and Touched by Midas) instead, as well as Real Wind and Little Grapette. Oakes sent me Midnight Magic as a bonus.
The plants were packed very nicely in excelsior, and the individual ones looked like this:
This looks quite impressive to me, although I've never bought daylilies that weren't already planted in a container, so I'm not a good judge of the quality of these plants.
While I was walking around the garden, I noticed that my red surprise bulb was still blooming beautifully. This bulb (probably a Lycoris of some sort) suddenly appeared in one of my containers and started blooming at least a month ago. These photos were taken on October 13th, and the bloom still looks good today, two weeks later.
The spiders are still out in force, keeping the insects at bay. Here's a little one on a Marriotta bloom, and then there's the big one I almost walked into. Arghhh!
The roses are still blooming. Some of today's best blooms were About Face and Lady Waterlow:
Nimbus and Parfum de Grasse:
Sequoia Ballet and Sisters at Heart:
The Pilgrim and Wimi:
Now that October's here, the blasted Arum is taking over the entire garden, as usual, and obscuring all of the short plants. This poor alstroemeria is doing its best to rise above the arum, but only a few blooms can be seen through the arum foliage. Too bad the Cannas are almost finished for the year. They could never be obscured by the arum.
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