Friday, June 12, 2009

Blooming Friday -- Daylilies and an iris


It's daylily time now in central North Carolina. I never thought about daylilies much before, but in the last year I have really fallen in love with them.


'Bleu Celeste'



Commuter Daylily is a species daylily (H. citrina) that is delightfully fragrant.


A lovely yellow noid. I keep expecting to find name tags, since I remember writing out so many, but a lot of times I don't! What happens to these things??


Another noid


'Chorusline'


Red daylilies used to be my least favorite, but not anymore. 'Ruby Spider' is a truly spectacular daylily: the flowers are huge, the color doesn't fade, and it's even fragrant.


Japanese iris

Thank you to Katarina at roses and stuff for hosting Blooming Friday.


21 comments:

  1. Absolutely gorgeous flower power parade today Sweetbay!

    Take Care / Tyra

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  2. Daylilies are lovely, and so you show. I haven`t got enough space in my Garden, otherwise I would grow more of them.

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  3. sweetbay, nice collection of daylilies. I like the one Moonlight Masquerate...nice punch of color. Some of mine are fragrant and some aren't. I always come in the house with pollenon my nose...checking out the blooms. :-D

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  4. Aaaaaaaah Daylilies. I can never get enough of them. I'm afraid ours have pasted their prime for this season. Your's are so lovely.--Randy

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  5. Greetings from Vermont!

    I enjoy seeing Citrina included in gardens. It's a good grower, with some good height and a nice bloom period. I notice several growers are using it as they attempt to come up with taller daylilies with more color and fragrance. An interestng challenge!

    George Africa
    The Vermont Gardener
    http://thevermontgardener.blogspot.com

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  6. Ooh, the first, mystery lily really illustrates the difference between petals and sepals. I admit to not having too many day lilies. Ever since I pulled about 200 dead stalks per week at a client's garden I just can't bear them in my own! (But I have a lot of the orange naturalized ones which only bloom once!)

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  7. Daylilys are beautiful. The bright yellow one looks like the only one I have in my garden, a left over from earlier owners. Have a nice week end!

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  8. Sweetbay,

    Lovely day lilies! Bet you have some serious clumbs of them out there! We have planted ours on the hill by the pond they are a mess, but no room for such big plants.

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  9. They are all so lovely! Mine are just now coming in to bloom here too. I just love them all. Hyperion is one of my favorites for it's scent and ease.

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  10. They are so pretty. I really like the red ones!

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  11. Impressive collection of daylillies and beautiful images as always.

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  12. They are really pretty. The Hyperion looks a lot like the one I have growing. The Ruby Spider is beautiful.

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  13. Lovely collection! I cannot believe they are blooming already! Wow! Your southern garden blooms so much earlier... then again these could be early daylilies. I love the ruffled edged ones and your mystery daylily looks great with the spiderwort. Ruby Spider is outstanding!

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  14. Wow, that's a great parade of daylilies! I like daylilies a lot. There are so many lovely varieties. The ruby spider is stunning!
    Enjoy your weekend!
    Katarina

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  15. sweet bay your Daylilies are beautiful. I really do need to start getting some - I do have one. I especially love your mystery one and Moonlight Masquerade - just gorgeous. Thanks for sharing!

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  16. The daylilies are gorgeous! I just planted 18 of them this past weekend. I got them as bareroot from Brecks. They may not bloom this year, but I'm hoping they will. They have already sprouted up well in the past week. -Jackie

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  17. Hi Sweetbay, what a beautiful collection of daylilies! All of them are so beautiful but Moonlight masquerade and Ruby spider are really stunning! Love your photography!

    Thank you for visiting my blog. happy gardening!

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  18. Beautiful daylilies Sweetbay! My favorites are the spiders. Don't you think Hyperion is tops; it's been around the trade for over 75 years! Nothing compared to some roses, but...pretty cool none the less. I hope you've had a good weekend! gail

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  19. Wow, really enjoying this visit to your garden!
    Thanks for visiting our group post!

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