Electric Orange Lily and Fancy Face Daylily

Here is a section of backyard terraces were you can see the daylilies blooming with the lilies and nasturtiums on top.

I like Snapdragons as they add color to the bed all season long. I planted these to help while the daylily beds filled in. Also love glads. These are the smaller mini glads I buy from VB Wholsesale. They are annual for me but cheap enough to buy afew bags of new ones each year.

The daylily is a Korth intro, RUBY SHADOWS.

Back to the Lily and Daylily Combos. This is FANCY FACE again, this time with RED ALERT lilies.

Korth intro daylily CRIMSON STAIN with lots of snapdragons.

A section of my backyard daylily bed mid of last July. Lots of daylilies, snapdragons and mini gladiolas. A riot of color, which is the way that I like it.

Yellow daylily DOC WEBSTER from that grouping. One of my very favorite daylilies. I just love this daylily. It was my all time highest budcount daylily as it had 46 buds and then later it even rebloomed for me. It is just strinking and you can see it accross the garden.

The left side of my front yard on July 21st last summer. Picture taken from the sidewalk. You can see the very cottage garden look. Daylilies, oriental lilies and zinnias all in bloom.

Beautiful!!!!

One of the backyard dayliliy beds planted with mini gladiolas and snapdragons.

I love snapdragons. I have some that come up every year throughout my beds.

I have to buy new ones and replant them each year. They are not going in that bed this year though, as I used them as filler in the daylily bed when it was new and really needed filling in. This will be year three for that bed so the daylilies have really grown. Going to have to plant the snapdragons somewhere else this year.

Your garden is just beautiful Rita. I know how hard you work in it. All that work has really created a magnificent garden. You should feel very proud.

Joy

I just love to be out there in the garden, Then I also like to take pictures so I can share them on my favorite forums.

I really have been working on this garden, and I mean seriously working since 2001. That is the summer I decided to transform my rather boring ordinary yard into my vision of my own little piece of paradise.

Rita- Do your mini glads return every year? Or do you have to replant?

I noticed for the past two years that any glads I forgot to pull up return. This year I will leave the mini glads for next year and see what happens.

oh, these views are amazing!! Joy I need to visit

Is that bamboo in the back ground of one of your backyard pics? hanging over the fence there?
I am thinking of planting some bamboo, but I am totally lost as to what to get or how to plant or care for it. Does anyone know anything about bamboo?
I am thinking something rather tall, is there a 'weeping' bamboo? I hear it is kind of invasive?

Rita I am loving that Fancy Face, very pretty! I ordered that this year and it was sold out, must be popular, Have to wait til next year now

Frilly, Yes, it's bamboo but I don't advise planting it unless you can find some that isn't invasive. I've heard there are some that aren't. It was already here when we bought the place 10 years ago. I've loved it and it was great to be able to cut my own plant stakes in my own yard. But it is starting to become a problem. It's jumped that fence and is trying to take over my garden. Very high matenence to try to keep it in bounds. We had some on both sides of that part of the yard, but I pulled up all that was on one side. I'm wishing now that I had pulled it all up. It looked to be newly planted when we moved in. I've heard that the only way to get rid of it once it's really established it's self is to move.

Yes, come visit anytime, I'll send you home with a load of plants. I've loaded lots of car trunks and truck beds and still have too many plants for one person to take care of.

well I would think brush killer spray would do it in, or even a light burning could control it?
I have an area that is probably 30 feet or so from my flower beds, and along the back fence of the property. I thought I might put it there.
I would be mowing around it regular, I would think that would keep it 'in'. ?
Might could tie some up to your mower or atv and pull them out? Do they root deep?

It's too close to that fence and the garage is just on the other side of it, so burning it would be out of the question. Wish I could burn it all down. Might make it a little easier to get to the roots and try to dig them out. But I think I will try the brush killer as you suggest. Don't know why I didn't think of that? Sounds reasonable to me. I'm not sure how deeply the roots go, but it has all kinds of runners. Some are on the surface, but I'd found bamboo coming up quite a ways away from the main clump with no visible runners in sight.The area mine is in is very rocky and hard. So digging it out would be a lot of hard work. I have arthritis and because of it, I'm weaker than I used to be. So may find I can't do the real hard digging anymore. I wouldn't mind keeping some of it if I could find a way to contain it. I think my biggest problem with it is it's not in a good place for it's aggressive habits. We have an acre, so if it were in another part of the yard it may not seem like such a problem. So if you have the right place for it, it just may very well do well for you in your situation. I don't know what cultiver mine is, or how hardy, but if you really want some I'd be happy to send you some for postage, well, that is, if I'm able to dig some out. I could try.

Thank you for your suggestions Frilly.

Joy