It seems that as soon as one thing goes away, another creeps up! I'm doing my best, though, Ginny!!

@Kidfishing Not to go off topic, but I'm gonna do so briefly.... What is the name of the daylily that you have as your avatar? I must know!!

That's not off topic if they posted the avatar outside in the daylily garden

One thing I did in the daylily garden this morning was to finally get around to dividing 'Taj Mahal'. I got this plant back in June 2015. I think it was one of the first plants I have had that went through a grassing stage. It results supposedly from the plant trying to adapt from being grown in a cold climate to being grown in a warm climate. Not sure that is the case here being it came from Ga.
Whatever the cause, it developed many very tiny grassy fans, then in 2016 it developed very short skinny scapes and very small blooms. This year there were again lots of fans with undeveloped leaves and again small scapes and small blooms. The solution for this problem is said to be to divide the plant and let it regrow in the warm climate. I meant to do this earlier, but I kept waiting for the plant to become more vigorous .
'Prairie Blue Eyes' did the same thing and after dividing the fans into six different clumps back in April 2016 it did fantastic this year. So I am having the same high hopes of 'Taj Mahal' next year.
My wife has been wanting some more color in the front, so I planted some of the clumps in two different spots in the front and three clumps in the back island bed.
I think it might be a trait of grassing that the fans do not separate easily (not sure it could just be the cultivars)but it seemed almost that every fan had originated from the same crown. There was no way to pull the fans apart or pry them apart. I pried open some channels through the feeder roots then sawed through the crown as can be seen in the photos below.
'Taj Mahal': Dividing

Did about an hours worth of weeding but now I need to get cleaned up to go to a graduation party.

Legalily said:That's not off topic if they posted the avatar outside in the daylily garden

Added this to the new garden today



Not near done. Ran out of steam
Hair Allium is blooming


Can't get enough of the Butterfly Milkweed and Limonero Squeeze


Annabelle Hydrangea started

Beautiful perennial photos, Ginny!! The new garden seems to be coming along nicely, too!!

The DH and DD#1 were home long enough for me to get outside to do some deadheading and tidying up of dead leaves, that was long overdue, in the front garden. Took my time with lots of breaks, bc it reached at least 91 degrees (the last I saw) on the thermometer, although the forecast was to reach 94 degrees today! There was actually a very nice breeze, which was extremely helpful for endurance purposes, bc the front garden is on the South side of the house, and well, I can't seem to get my rear end out of bed early enough to get it done before 10am, and in the evening, I don't like to work there bc it's like being in a fish bowl, with the nosey neighbor couple sitting on their front porch, practically every evening, like clockwork. So, I worked between 11am and 2:00pm., and then got stuck in the house with the kittens for the rest of the day. ...although it would have been too hot to do anything anyways! BUT, it felt great to get a little "therapy" in, and there's one less chore on my mind for now!!

Those kittens sat on my last nerve tonight, and I completely lost it. Fortunately DD#1 and DH were there to "talk me down" so to speak! So all is well again, at least, for the time being.

.....Now, if I can get up early enough to get some major chores done, I'll be beyond ecstatic, this morning!! Oh, wait....gotta fall asleep in order to get up, in the first place!!

Lots of rain been and gone. I have been shredding my tax receipts that are no longer needed by the powers-that-be. Great mulch!

Drivers-by nearly fall out of the cars as they pass the house. Good fun. The shredding has taken nearly a week.

In the colder months (= now) I plant vegetables and herbs amongst the daylilies. Chard or Silver Beet make splendid, edible feature plants. I do tomatoes and lettuce as well.






The lovely looking birds at the extreme right took out several of my seedlings this morning. They had help. Two is cute - 50 is a garden make-over not good for one's heart.

How long does the mulch stay white?

Donald, this is my first go with it. Hopefully for a while. Interesting that no one has thought of white mulch yet with all the colored ones one get buy.

Watering, deadheading, a couple of crosses (which may abort in this heat), trying to figure out what is what with our flaky irrigation controller...

Took a couple pictures. But tomorrow will be different because I have the day off!

bloominholes2fill said:@Kidfishing Not to go off topic, but I'm gonna do so briefly.... What is the name of the daylily that you have as your avatar? I must know!!

Sorry we have been away and busy with helping our club host the region 11 summer meeting. That is lots of work and long days. I am pretty much a work-a-holic so starting at 5am and finishing at 11pm for a couple of days is something I can handle but Ashton is not quite used to that. We were in charge of the bus tours and collecting the information for the treasurer during the auctions. So bus tours were 6:30am and and auctions were 9pm. We decided to stay at home and not the hotel so that added a half hour drive morning and night.
Anyhow that may also be off topic but it was what we did in other peoples gardens this weekend.

The avatar is (a different picture of it here)
Windswept Imagination (Rose F. Kennedy x Super Fancy Face) Lopp, T. 2017


One of these days it will show up in the database we thought as a 2016 but I think it will be a 2017.
Nikki Schmith was our speaker this past weekend and told us all but very few were finally on the database.
Ours is still not there. We submitted October 26th but had to answer questions and go thru naming rejects so I guess they finalized it in November. The ones from April 2017 are now on there but not from Nov 2016.

But anyhow, when they get finished it will all be better for the future and everything will show up right away when submitted.

Kidfishing, just wanted to say that your girls are the prettiest flowers in the whole garden!

I planted the last batch of seedlings this afternoon. It was a nice day, not too hot, and it rained last night, so the ground was moist. I have a few left to plant, but they are small, so I am going to give them a bit longer in pots so I can pamper them. They were a few seeds that I planted later, so don't have the size of the earlier seedlings yet.

Gorgeous weather today! I finally fixed the damage done by a groundhog within three days of planting some new daylilies, back before Mother's Day. I was so angry, it took me this stinking long to find the motivation!

Yesterday was gorgeous too! The DH helped me remove an evergreen from a large pot, that became a casualty from the huge tree branch, that had fallen in early Spring. I wanted to save the soil for another large pot that received a dwarf Hydrangea, yesterday. I mixed in some compost to revitalize the soil, and the hydrangea doesn't seem any worse for the wear! I "engineered" (in other words, it's an experiment ) a way for the moisture to take a little longer to percolate into the water reservoir, in an attempt to keep it hydrated!

This new larger pot is bright red, and it replaced a slightly smaller, less colorful pot that was moved from the back Northeast garden to the garage border garden, beside the patio. The location of the pot in the Northeast garden moved to a more prominent location, for when that garden is incorporated as the Northeast corner of the East living fence border garden. This is a "Fraction Phase", of Phase One, in the transformation of this garden. The low birdbath will move as well.

bloominholes2fill said:Today, I spread diatomaceous earth around the back yard perennial gardens. The slugs are just going crazy! Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if there were some giant slugs hiding amongst the hostas! Yuck!! The bugs are just horrible too, this year! The daylily leaves are really taking a beating!! I think that the worst culprits are earwigs, here, and they are elusive little stinkers and hard to kill! Plus, earwigs are just about the creepiest insect, in my mind!!

If any of you commercial daylily outfits/hybridizers have any suggestions on earth-friendly 'bad insect' control, I . am . all . ears!! (So to speak )

Oh, I forgot! I gifted some daylilies to the jerkwadd's girlfriend, on the other side of the fence. With his help, she is tearing out the ex wife's perennial gardens and starting all over!! It's a lot of work, but she has youth on her side!! ...after all, she *is* 20 years his junior!! (.....actually mine, too ) She had expressed to me that she doesn't want "the typical yellow and orange daylilies", and, well, I just *had* to enable and spread the Daylily Love! After all, it *is* our mission!! She is quite the opposite personality of his ex... very, very aproachable, nice, and very outgoing. ........and he is growing on me, slowly! so there is hope for complete peace with him! After all, that's all we humans ever want, right?

Funny thing, yesterday, while we were talking, he grabs a beer for himself and while cracking it open, she yells "Hey where's mine?!" So after he came back out with her beer, he asked me if I wanted some water. I politely said no, and later in the conversation, I told him that I didn't like beer at all, and I would use a cup half full of beer as a decoy, at college parties, so I didn't have drunk people constantly hounding me to get more beer for myself. Then he said that they have plenty of wine, and I said, "Well, let me just bring over a 5 gallon bucket!" He then looked at me and said, "Really?! I didn't figure you as 'the type'!", and I thought to myself, "I may be Catholic, and I asked him to not say the "F" word around our girls, (It's every other word with him, which is disturbing to hear, on a personal and moral level, so often in conversation! ) but I'm not dead, for crying out loud!! (I hope this doesn't offend anybody, as I'm fully aware that alcohol is strictly prohibited, in certain denominations, and I have nothing but respect for all denominations! Additionally, some have had horrible a experience with an alcoholic friend or family member, and my intent, here, is not to offend at all!! Sinners, we Catholics are, and we undeniably live in glass houses! Anyway, I thought it to be quite humorous, bc *specifically* what 'type' they sized me up as, I'm not completely sure! Not that I care! "greengrin: I am pretty certain that he and the ex thought me to be a prude, and then when I said a swear word (not the "F" word, mind you! ), during an argument between the three of us, the ex called me a hipocrite, and I said, "I go to church *because* I'm a sinner!" (among many other reasons)! Yes, I am completely guilty of saying that word, but I have to be *so* angry, under completely extenuating circumstances, that I'm spitting nails, before it shamefully spews out of my mouth, not to excuse it, by any means! but it isn't used as every other word, either!

Dana!

I wish I had a neighbor like you: someone who loves Daylilies, has my kind of humor and enjoys her daily glass of wine!

Mayo

I work full-time, but try to go to my allotment (about 10 minutes drive from my house) every day, to take pictures, water the annuals in pots and water the tomatoes I have growing in an small greenhouse.

I also make pictures of every DL that flowers and take notes on when they flower and where they are in the garden. I worked very hard the last year to 'make' this garden and am now checking that the labels I put with the plants are correct (up til now I discovered 1 mistake, still waiting for it's counterpart to start blooming and reveal itself! )

After that, when I get home, I work some in my backyard. I have other DL's here than at the allotment, including the more expensive ones like Undefinable. That one is almost blooming and I have to be carefull that my 5 cats don't knock of the buds! It's only 1 small fan, so until it has bloomed (and I have harvsted some pollen) the cats are only allowed in the garden when I'm there

Mayo

Mayo,
I was interested that you said in one of your posts that you bought your allotment. I always thought of allotments as mainly rentals!
What you have done with it is amazing