I had to be gone from the garden for a few days, then after one day back I had to go for Jury Duty, now I have that for one more day in may and one more day in September. We have had so many doctors appointments this year I hardly know if I am coming or going anymore!
But yesterday and today I have had beautiful weather and a lot of time in the garden to try and get caught up with things. I try to keep some data on my dayliles and that is made difficult when a day or two is missed, things change so quickly now with them. Hard to keep up when scapes appeared and when the first blooms showed up. Still I have done much better with that than I was able to do last year when we had to spend so much time with my wife's sister.
The Azaleas have long gone, the roses are not very productive this year except for the Knock Outs and the small climbing red rose on the fence. The Amaryllis have made their major appearance, but I will have some blooming on and off normally almost till fall. The dayliles are now the star of the show, the hosta varieties have been depleted(I need to stock up on some new plants). Glads are now just starting and the ferns are taking over some of the beds they have grown so well this spring.
Here are some photos of what is happening in the garden:
I went down to office depot and bought 500 tags to put on my daylily crosses and just did my first ones for the year today. Not doing any cross of real interest, mostly just trying to figure out a simple routine that is more efficient than how I am currently doing things. It seems to take me forever just to do a few crosses. It will be better when I get all my plant labels marked so I can tell dips from tets. I hope to finish that up today sometime. I will put an asterisk on the tet markers, nothing extra on the dip markers. I spent time while I was away looking them all up and now have a list of all the tets and dips.
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