A Stroll Through the Gardens
Today was one of the most beautiful days of the 21st century. The sun was brightly shining in the robin’s egg blue sky, causing the flowers to absolutely glow in the gardens. I’d like to think it was their “welcome back, we missed you!” glow, but I probably had nothing to do with it. (Thank you, God, for this beautiful day.)
After spending an extremely enjoyable day with Erin and Jaden (Alana stopped by for about an hour as well) I came home and grabbed my camera, a Kodak EasyShare CX7330, 3.1 mega pixel memory maker for my feeble mind. I wandered around the yard, photographing everything that called out for my attention. I was able to capture 49 images before my batteries gave out. Luckily Max has a Kodak EasyShare C530 that offers 5.0 mega pixels, so I was able to take another 51 pictures before I had to rest (still recuperating from surgery.)
I’m going to attempt to attach some of my favorite snapshots to this blog. Unfortunately, my computer skills are rather limited (we can’t all be good at everything, right????) so please bear with me.
Since my mind is a rusty trap, I find it beneficial to list all plant names on metal tags. In order to avoid the tragedy of weather-related paint disappearance, the exact information is placed on the back as well as the front. If there’s room, I add the date planted and some of the characteristics of the plant. Latin names are very important to know, so I try to include them, as well.
Not all plants are labeled as a lot of the daylilies that I have are experiments. My deceased friend, Sandy Ellis was a true genius at hybridizing daylilies, and she taught me how to do so. It’s kind of like eating M&M’s…..once you start you just can’t stop.
Today was one of the most beautiful days of the 21st century. The sun was brightly shining in the robin’s egg blue sky, causing the flowers to absolutely glow in the gardens. I’d like to think it was their “welcome back, we missed you!” glow, but I probably had nothing to do with it. (Thank you, God, for this beautiful day.)
After spending an extremely enjoyable day with Erin and Jaden (Alana stopped by for about an hour as well) I came home and grabbed my camera, a Kodak EasyShare CX7330, 3.1 mega pixel memory maker for my feeble mind. I wandered around the yard, photographing everything that called out for my attention. I was able to capture 49 images before my batteries gave out. Luckily Max has a Kodak EasyShare C530 that offers 5.0 mega pixels, so I was able to take another 51 pictures before I had to rest (still recuperating from surgery.)
I’m going to attempt to attach some of my favorite snapshots to this blog. Unfortunately, my computer skills are rather limited (we can’t all be good at everything, right????) so please bear with me.
Since my mind is a rusty trap, I find it beneficial to list all plant names on metal tags. In order to avoid the tragedy of weather-related paint disappearance, the exact information is placed on the back as well as the front. If there’s room, I add the date planted and some of the characteristics of the plant. Latin names are very important to know, so I try to include them, as well.
Not all plants are labeled as a lot of the daylilies that I have are experiments. My deceased friend, Sandy Ellis was a true genius at hybridizing daylilies, and she taught me how to do so. It’s kind of like eating M&M’s…..once you start you just can’t stop.
Here’s one of the front gardens (the Weeping Cherry Garden.) See the hypertufa containers? I love to make them in my spare time. The small reddish daylily is ‘Burgundy Babe’. Man, does this daylily produce! There were many, many blooms prior to today, and the various bud sizes indicate that I will have many, many blooms to come. I’ll cross this daylily with a larger, darker one that doesn’t perform as well, hoping to get a large dark lily that will knock my socks off.
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