Thursday, July 15, 2010

June 30, almost home

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Spent-rose star.





West Park, still totally torn up.

I never see anyone working here.

It does change, from time to time, but the pace seems barely faster than glacial.





Daylilies.







I love the old-fashioned orange ones, but the newer ones are growing on me.

Especially these red velvet ones.









After the red-velvet ladies of the court, here is the jester.

Bee balm.





Asiatic lily.







More daylilies.









Rose.





Balancing act.





I rather think this is loosestrife.



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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just love your blog. I feel as if I get to walk through a nursery each and every day (minus the smell of course), which I adore. I have the red velvet daylilies (I planted them when we moved here) and I'm still on the fence about them. I'm just not sure on the color... but then again, I love jewel tones. Go figure. And ah, the asiatic lily. Love, love, love... and oh, that smell.

I need orange said...

Aww. Thanks. :-) What nice things to hear.

Right back at you, you know. :-) Totally love stopping by for a dose of the donkeys. Love watching you and Don (and grampa, and Carson) interact with them, love watching them interact with each other......

Wish I could capture and share the scents, too. Milkweed smells good.....

I'm not as fond of the really big daylilies (like these) as I am of the ones with "normal size" (i.e. the same size as the old-fashioned orange ones) flowers.

When the first hybrid daylilies started to appear, there were so many pastels. I don't really do pastels, and I took a dislike to all of the "new daylilies." Now these red&gold and red&chartreuse ones are growing on me. And I have to admit that I rather like the purple&chartreuse ones, too, but don't know that I'd ever grow them.

I seriously love the red velvet&gold ones that have skinny curly petals....... I would totally grow those......... :-)

And yes, the asiatic lilies and their perfume.....................

:-)