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| Unnamed seedling by a Wisconsin hybridizer |
We are in for a hot time in the old town tonight (actually this week). I was hoping it would cool off before house guests arrive on Friday, but that's looking questionable. As I write, the heat index for tomorrow may hit 110 degrees. Our guests will probably be used to it as they are from Atlanta, but I'm not so certain about myself! I will use the warmth of the sun to help melt the wax from my 28" magnolia shade that I finally finished today... all that's left is clean-up and patination. Beyond that, it will be early and late times spent in the gardens, some biking and walking, and perhaps getting started building a set of bookcases that I've been procrastinating on for the longest time.
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| Hemerocallis "Flight Of The Raven" |
Now I have to warn you... if you don't care for hemerocallis you may not care for my posts for the next few weeks. Daylilies are blooming with abandon all over our property and I love photographing them. As far as my hybrids are concerned, I'm enjoying the new blooms daily. Again, I'd have to say there is nothing spectacular, but they are nice for the most part. This evening brought an e-mail from my friend Beth at "Beyond The Garden Gate". Among other things, she shared a blog site from a dedicated hemerocallis hybridizer and I was blown away with his plants. I don't know a lot about him or his work as I have not studied his site in detail yet, but I really have to have some of his introductions at some point... they are spectacular!
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| The first orienpet to open... "Sophie" |
My daylilies generally fit into the following categories... 1. plants whose names I lost years ago 2. plants whose names I still know 3. unnamed seedlings from other hybridizers 4. my own hybrids .
Here are several from these four categories that are in bloom at Oak Lawn now...
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| Double hemerocallis "Peggy Jeffords" |
The reason I'm having so much trouble with specific cultivar names is that my hard drive crashed several months ago. I was able to recover my 31,000 photos but not the labels that went with them. In the meantime, many of the copper labels in the gardens lost the labeled portion over winter for who knows what reason, (I know the price of copper is through the roof and there are copper vandals, but I doubt that is where my labels disappeared to!)... now I have to depend on the memory of an old man... that being me!
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| Hemerocallis "Garnet Jewel" |
The "next day" that I referred to at the start of this post has come to pass and, unfortunately, the weather prognosticators were right on the money! I generally don't perspire, but that's not the case today. Since coming home from church and lunch with our youngest son, my biggest task has been to get water to whatever is succumbing to the sun's heat as quickly as possible! But for any of you trying to clean the interior of a Tiffany reproduction lamp shade as I am... today is bliss. It's sitting in the hot sun and the wax used to hold it on the mold and flux wipe up beautifully... I'd say "no sweat" but that isn't the case when taken literally!
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| Unnamed seedling by a Wisconsin hybridizer |
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| Unnamed seedling by a Wisconsin hybridizer |
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