Journal
Good point, Char. I keep an off-again, off-again garden blog (for myself and my family), which can be viewed as a sort of a journal. I don't typically record things like FFO or LFO or stuff like that in the blog (I may elsewhere), but it is a good place to record garden musings and aspirations (and rants).
Separate from that, I have any number of computer files in which I try to record data on my seedlings, pollen dabbing, various daylily traits, records of daylily purchases, and the like.
Juxtaposition
Good one, Hilary! Most daylilies here start their residence in a pot, but even so, I may have to move them around a few times once they are finally (if ever) in the ground. (That 'Imperial Lemon' is beautiful!
I love lemon colored daylilies!)
Judges
Both types of judge should have our respect and appreciation for all of their hard work (even if we don't always agree with their decisions
).
June is EM and Midseason here.
'Osterized', a registered Midseason daylily, reliably starts bloom at the end of May, blooms all June, and ends the first week of July.
July is the month of the ML daylilies.
'Sears Tower' reliably begins bloom at the end of June and finishes the end of July. Although it is registered as a Midseason daylily, I cannot help but wonder if this is an error and if it is really a Mid Late. I consider the transition between the bloom periods from 'Osterized' to 'Sears Tower' as a seasonal changing of the guard, from M to ML; they overlap bloom by only a few days.
Curiously enough, three Reckamp daylilies all begin bloom here in the middle or second half of
June, finish approaching the middle of
July, yet are variously registered as ML, ML, and L. These are 'Techny Spider', 'Harvest Moth', and 'Joyful Soul', respectively. (One wonders what role, if any, my shady garden and different locations therein plays in all this.)
Speaking of
'Joyful Soul', are we not all
Joyful Souls when the daylilies are in bloom?
