'December Wedding' has been giving me at least a couple of flowers most days recently. I'm really going to miss it once it blooms out.
(Did I mention that I had a December wedding?) Today it has 2 blooms open.
This pic is from the 6th (4 days ago?!) after I cleaned up some of the dead foliage and paper tags; there were 3 blooms that day:
Cropped to two of the blooms (I think that it pairs nicely with the
Helichrysum petiolare 'Variegatum', but I have to keep hacking the latter back):
'Sacrament of Healing' is also still blooming on a rebloom scape (this pic is from the 7th; there is only one bloom open on it today) but I like the opening and edging better on DW. (I have been trying to cross the better-opening, maybe-sdlg of SoH with DW, both ways.)
Evening image from the 8th on my potted 'Four Eyes' (a 3 x 3 bloom with something funky going on there - a petaloid?) :
I have been reflecting on my daylilies recently, and I think that I need more of a balance wrt their season of bloom. I should probably not get more E or EE ones (unless they are touted as CMOs and for good opening, or unless maybe they are a UF) as the daylilies are challenged by the cooler weather here in late April and in May. On the other hand, the weather now is fine for daylilies, and the garden would benefit from more L or VL cultivars. To that end, I have on order for fall delivery:
(an E, but one parent is 'Osterized' which always opens well here) and
, a L.
