Grandma's Gardens #8: Pretty in Red ...

ooooh yes.. with the white highlights and the curly edges… stunning.
you sure do grow pretty flowers!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Thanks MsDeb!!! Just a little of this and that.

I’ll tell ya my roses sure took a hit this year with this cold then hot, rain and humidity. Last year they were blooming like crazy, Currently, I get a flower here and there.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

She’s a looker for sure, Gran T, and gonna keep you in blooms for a long time, with the number of buds on her!

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

She’s sure delightful Gran T ….. so many beautiful plants and flowers surrounding your everyday. Lovely!

-- blooz 5b - You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~author unkown

Thank you Dini and Blooz. My daylilies have been magnificent this year. Can’t remember them being this pretty and lasting this long in bloom in many a year.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

That sure is one beautiful lilly GramT.Love it’s rich colour with the yellow and white.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Thanks Bon … I brought a piece of “her” over in our move. Just couldn’t leave “her” behind.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

Love the lily, eh.. It’s got really nice green to it, which is important in my book anymore.

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

Thanks Scott … means alot coming from the “Lily King”!!! :-)

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

lol.. Hardly a king..

Getting about time to pull the scapes off mine… They’re all bloomed out for the most part.

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

I’ve been dead-heading and cutting off the stems as the flowers finish blooming. My Little Business and Pink are almost done … only a couple more days. Although I did discover today that one of the new, bareroot dwarf’s that I ordered from SpringHill has buds on it. I am most anxious to see which flower it is. I’ll post a pic once it blooms.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

Dead heading keeps them going a bit longer. Good for you. A very nice daylily. It is too bad they don’t go on all summer though. Wouldn’t that be glorious?

-- jroot

Yes, it would be glorious if they bloomed all summer. Although you can find Lilies that bloom a little later than others. Like this red. It began blooming after my “others” were pretty much done. My much missed and very loved Grandfather, taught me years ago that if you dead-head most flowers, their energy is put into forming new flowers, not maintaining dying ones.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

Actually in terms of daylilies, unless the lily is a rebloomer, which most are not, deadheading does nothing more than make sure the plant is pretty.

In fact, if you’re after those chance seeds that happen from time to time, you’d want to leave the blooms on.

Granted the likely hood of anything nice coming from a chance breeding is slim, but, eh; it’s still fun.

Only problem playing around with those seeds are, you need at least 2-3 years growth to see what the blooms look like.

-- Planting Daylilies in Kentucky, zone 6b

Beautiful Grandma T, as are all the lovely plants you have done this year.
I love the avatar…......can I ask what your plants are sitting in on the chair???? I have a chair already and waiting to have a go, now that I have more time.

-- Derbyshire------- English Countryside

They are called “Million Bell” Petunias. This plant has performed spectacularly for me this summer. It is now half way up the back of the chair and growing just as large through the back spindles. Been feeding “her” Miracle Grow for about a month now cuz I know she is pretty root bound in that pot. And I do, once a week, sit and pick all of her dead flowers off. She seems to love that and rewards me with oodles of more flowers.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

Really pretty GranT!
Beautiful shade of RED!!!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Thank you Springwood and “E”!!! They still are in great bloom and I am truly enjoying each day of their “gift of color”!! :-)

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

Is the plant in a plant pot or in a bowl or something??

-- Derbyshire------- English Countryside

It is in the plastic pot that I bought it in … hubby cut a hole in the middle of the seat of the chair large enough for the pot to sit down in without falling through. Most of our hanging baskets come in a standard size plastic pot; so that is what I gaged the hole in the seat to accommodate. Hope that helps you.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

I was reading in the Toronto Star newspaper, that some people are afraid to use red in a garden. I can’t imagine why. I love it, and I love your lily.

-- jroot

Thank you jroot … did it say why they are afraid of red?? That is so strange. Me, I love red in the garden; but then I love oranges and yellows too.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

Yes it is strange! Cannot imagine a garden without reds…and blues..and yellows and…

Makes it come alive!! Just as yours, jroot and GranT, pop up with all those colors!!

Happy Gardens!!!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

I’m with you,E, I can’t imagine keeping any color out of my garden.

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.