More Lilies and Daylilies

Pale Yellow Asiatics

Forget Me Not Daylily

                                           Designer Jeans daylily

                                         Unknown Name

                                          Frankly Scarlet

                                          Best of Friends Daylily

                                         Late blooming Asiatic lilies.

These Asiatic lilies look almost white, but they are a pale yellow.

Daylilies Are Starting to Bloom

My Perennial Flowers

This daylily is called Moutain Violet.  Most years, the outside leaves are much darker. It has a nice big bloom and I like the eye on it. I have it back by an ornamental tree and another on the hill.
If you'd like to learn more about growing daylilies, this is a good resource that I wrote: How to Plant and Care for Daylilies

Lavender Tonic is blooming now. This daylily puts on blooms for a full month or more. It grows and spreads quickly. I like this one since it has so many buds and has such a frilly edge.

These are Madonna Lilies. I've got them growing near the back of our lot and I need to move them up closer to the house where I can enjoy them more.

I marked what must have been a Stella as Happy Return earlier. This is Happy Returns.

This daylily is called Bayou Bride. It is one of the first daylilies to bloom. The bloom is large.  It is one of my favorites.

This daylily is Red Robin. The photo is showing it as a light plum, but the real color is deep red. I'll have to take another photo and see if it won't show the true color.

The double yellow Asiatic lily blooms a little later than the other Asiatic. This one was here when we moved.

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This is another Asiatic that blooms a little later. I think this one came from my sister Marge.

 These lilies are called America. You get to see my sandals on the picture. I'll have to be more careful about that. When I purchased these lilies and planted them, they were a true purple. Everyone argued that there wasn't such a thing as a purple lily. We moved and I moved it with me and if you notice, it isn't purple anymore.

These pink lilies were here when we moved. I love these. There is not a full photo of them, but these are tall and covered with blooms.

This is a closeup of the above lilies. The blooms are big.

These are some of the hostas below my deck. I need to move these, to a new spot. The hostas are taking over and overcrowding the rhodedendron that is next to them.

This is a capanula that spreads in vines. It can be invasive. I have it in a shady spot so it doesn't spread so much. The plants were purchased at a garden show. They are completely blooming yet, but when they are, they are completely covered.

The orange lilies were here when we purchased the house. I have 3 groups of these along one side of my house. They put on quite the display when they bloom.

These are my Lollipop Asiatic Lilies. I love it when the lilies are blooming. 

My red Asiatics are blooming on the hill now. They have more of a red color back there, since they are in part shade.

My son gave me these Asiatic Lilies for Mother's Day last year. The multi-colors are kind of different. 

When my granddaughter was about 12, she loved to help in the garden. She now has a garden of her own. I wanted to hybridize some Asiatic lilies just for the fun of it. One afternoon we went from lily to lily acting like bees pollinating with Q-tips. This lily is the result of our fun.

I planted the seeds and several lilies came up. Later we moved and this was the only one large enough to move with us. It brings back great memories.It is one of the first lilies to bloom.

This isn't the way you'd hybridized lilies if you want outstanding results. Each lily should be covered with a plastic bag, so it doesn't pollinate with anything else. You should plan ahead what characteristics you'd like your lily to have and then pollinate between the two. We had good results for just playing around.

I do have a hubpage about growing Asiatic lilies if you have any interest in growing them. Growing Asiatic Lilies has all the ins and outs of planting and fertilizing.

 The red lilies are the first to bloom. I am not sure of the variety. These were traded for some plants at Garden Web. The lady that gave them too me brought lots of bulbs over. Now I know why. These things spread like crazy.

I had fun going with my sister to a local greenhouse today. Everything was half off and I purchased two different heuchera. I haven't gotten them planted yet, but here are some photos.

This one is called Blackberry Crisp. The common name for these is coral bells, but some of these new varieties I wouldn't name them that.  According to the marker, there is an entire series of these. This is what I found.

This heuchera is named Rootbeer. I have a Purple Palace one that I'll plant these with. Eventually I'd like one of the gold varieties.

My coreopsis is not blooming. I don't know the variety name of this one, since it was here when we purchased the house.

I'm still waiting for the Asiatic lilies to bloom. They have nice big buds. Everything seems to be late this year. Most years they are blooming by now, but we had some cold spells this year.