Terrestrial lily shots

[Kittyzee]

Just some shots of my day lilies and asiatics-a good assortment of color

[Sunbeam56]

great color - and nice thick foliage too.
How are you treating them?
I seem to either under or overwater - can't seem to get the knack. Altho, bless their chlorophyll hearts - they keep living.

[Kittyzee]

Honestly, I hardly ever water them at all....unless we are having a dry spell.  These lilies have been quite prolific and are growing in not such great soil.  I pretty much ignore them, and they do well    Maybe that's the secret!  I tried to put the tall asiatics in behind some of the bushy daylilies, which seem to "hold-up" the stems of the taller, floppier asiatics and that seems to help keep them off the ground.  A hard rain, or lots of wind (which I ALWAYS have) lays them over, so this seems to work for me.  In the spring I try to remember to put some osmocote around the base of them in the dirt.

[EagleEye]

Beautiful for sure , but what some of these folks don't realize is that like Gloria here, you have taken over some pastures for your plants. (were talking really good dirt here)
Your'e doing it right there Kittyze.

Steve

[Kittyzee]

  Steve, true!  AND I have barns full of the stuff in all stages of composting to the really fresh  to the kind that I don't mind putting my hands in.  One thing I've learned in my many years on the farm:  a cow patty may look dried-up and old (like a buffalo chip) but if you step on it; it's mushy in the middle!       Not good with flip-flops 

[EagleEye]

OK, Kittyzee,

Here is what you do: You take over your husbands pastures closests to the road, plant perennials, maintain them, and sell them by the road, You know, in the yard under a tree. (nice sign out front) In no time you'll have several pastures, full of perenialls, you'll be making more than the farm and loving it.

Jeez, I jsut about forgot, you might jsut be vice president next year. ( youl'll have to put this on hold till you get kicked out of office)
Steve

[Cedric]

Excelent idea, who can resist a bunch of truly fresh flowers for their loved one. 

[LeeAnne151]

Is that top daylily photo of Always Afternoon? I have one blooming now and it looks just like it.

[Kittyzee]

I'm not sure LeeAnn, I put the tag in my tag drawer and I can't find it.  I was hoping someone would recognize it and tell me what it is!    I've never had a daylily with so many buds waiting to bloom, it should be spectacular in a few days.

[LeeAnne151]

Here are some pics: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/7023/
there are so many daylily cultivars though that it is really hard to say for sure.

[Ky Kim]

Really beautiful.  I have a bunch of daylilies too.  I don't do anything special for them either.  Just let'm grow.  Like you said in droubt, I will give them a drink.  Other than that nothing.

KIm

[maryvonne]

Lovely collection of Day Lilies!

Maryvonne